OAKLAND, Calif., March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, today reports new data to confirm that mainstream consumers are increasing their commitment to Fair Trade faster than ever. Sales of Fair Trade Certified(TM) products increased 24 percent at grocery stores during 2010. Today, consumers can find Fair Trade products in every aisle of the supermarket. Due to this broad availability, driven by more than 700 companies offering Fair Trade Certified products, more mainstream American consumers are becoming Fair Trade converts. The 2010 data from SPINS, the first company to offer Fair Trade sales data across natural, specialty and mainstream channels, indicates that sales of Fair Trade Certified products ...
Ensuring the credibility of the fair trade label is facilitated by short supply chains that are easier to monitor than supply chains with many links that have to be certified. [...] certified producers can sell only to certified traders, and the firm that applies the label to a final product must be licensed by one of the national initiatives and buy only from a certified producer or trader. [...] while mainstream outlets typically have greater access to consumers, they are often disinclined to aggressively promote fair trade products. [...] the job of educating consumers about fair trade products and advocating to increase demand will remain with outside groups.
NEW YORK, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, and Equal Exchange, a Fair Trade product supplier and worker-owned cooperative, have formed a new partnership, called Better Beans, to sell and distribute fairly traded, kosher coffee and chocolate. The Better Beans line of products allows congregations, community organizations and individuals to order high- quality coffee and chocolate while supporting small growers and community-owned cooperatives in the developing world. AJWS encourages Jewish communities to live their ethics and advance global justice by serving only Better Beans coffee and chocolate at their synagogues, schools and local events.
SINSINAWA, Wis. - The World Fair Trade Festival is being featured at the Sinsinawa Mound Bookshop and Art Gallery this week. The festival, which continues through Saturday, May 17, will honor the international women garment workers portrayed in its current gallery exhibit, "Presented: Women who Make Our Clothes," by Janet Essley.
OAKLAND, Calif., April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, today releases its 2010 Almanac. With more than 9,500 Fair Trade Certified(TM) consumer products offered by more than 700 industry partners at more than 60,000 retail locations, this yearly report serves as a barometer for the health and growth of Fair Trade in the United States. The 2010 edition showcases record volumes of Fair Trade Certified imports, a dramatic increase in organic imports, expansion into popular new product categories, a surge in consumer demand and increased brand recognition for Fair Trade Certified goods. This continues to parallel overall growth in consumer awareness of Fair Trade, which has quadrupled in the past five years.
You've probably come across the "Fair Trade Certified" logo while browsing the grocery store aisles - and if you're like most shoppers, you probably aren't quite sure what it means. S. consumers bought $1.2 billion in fair-trade products last year, but only 29 percent know what fair trade is, said Stacy Wagner, director of media and public relations for TransFair USA, the leading third-party certifier of fair-trade products in the U.S.
OAKLAND, Calif. and COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 27, 2011 / PRNewswire/ -- Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, and the Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative (GCQRI), a collaborative research program of the specialty coffee industry, today announce a strategic partnership to provide industry-leading research to help all members of the Fair Trade coffee supply chain face the challenges of climate change. Throughout its first five-year plan, Fair Trade USA will support the efforts of GCQRI to conduct international research, and to produce farmer, industry and consumer-facing information and analyses on the state and future of specialty coffee. The effort will not only create informed consumers, but also generate a new wave of k...
Shopping at Global Marketplace has benefits that ripple throughout the world. The community-wide event begins today at First Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Virginia Street and Leon Sullivan Way in downtown Charleston. Shoppers can experience international shopping with Fair Trade products. That means all proceeds benefit participating artisans and organizations.
There are 100 million people around the world who are artisan miners, some poor, usually living in rural areas with limited resources," he says. "If it were possible that these miners could extract in a way that was environmentally sound and in a way that they were given fair wages, it could have a major impact as a development initiative around the world. It could transform tens of millions of people's lives; that's what this is about. It's about connecting the person here in Santa Fe purchasing a piece of jewelry with the person in Africa at the mining cooperative in Tanzania, who is actually mining the stone. "For myself, I've made a decision that I'm going to work for positive social change in every way that I can, regardless of what's going on. And everybody can do this. I happen...
... two US companies to offer third-party fair-trade gold wedding rings from the UK. Reflective Images'... isn't made with recycled or fair-trade products. And it should be socially unacceptable, given wha...
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