I honestly don’t believe the world is run by evil businessmen stroking white cats

As one half of the creative team behind Green & Black’s chocolate, Jo Fairley is committed to ethical trading, but such ideals were not always readily accepted

Jo Fairley Pic: Julian Behal

CV: Jo Fairley

Age:61

Family: married to fellow Green & Black’s founder and sustainable business entrepreneur Craig Sams. They have a daughter, Lily, and she is stepmother to Sams’ two adult children, Rima and Karim

Lives: Hastings, on the south coast of England

Favourite film: The Sound of Music

Favourite book: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Hobbies: A love of perfumes, which has lately evolved into a business

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