Chocolate production for The Real Easter Egg has been moved from Europe to Banbury due to increased demand, it was reported in January.
More than a million eggs have been sold in the past five years and in a recent public poll the product was voted the UK’s favourite Fairtrade Easter Egg.
Launched in 2010 following a trial involving churches in the Diocese of Oxford, The Real Easter Egg became the UK’s first and only Fairtrade egg to include a copy of the Easter story. It is still the UK’s only charity egg. By Easter 2016 The Meaningful Chocolate Company (MCC), makers of the egg, expects to have given away more than £200,000 to charitable causes.