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Harry Hill goes nuts for fair trade nuts

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Fairtrade food, fairtrade

According to an article in the Observer, BAFTA award winning comedian Harry Hill is set to launch his own celebrity branded fairtrade peanuts, or Harry’s Nuts if you prefer.
The popular comic is working in collaboration with fairtrade nut company Liberation on the new range of peanuts that will carry his branding. Harry Hill is not […]



More success for fair-trade beer producer Beewyched

By admin • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Fairtrade beer, fairtrade

For the second successive year, Wychwood Brewery’s Beewyched  honey beer has been voted ‘Specialty honey beer of the year‘ during the World Beer Awards 2008.
Beewyched is known as the UK’s leading fair-trade beer and available in most well known supermarkets, such as Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury, and Waitrose, as well as many leading independent retailers across […]



Freedom Food logo from RSPCA more popular than ever

By admin • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: general

According to a recent survey by YouGov, the Freedom Food logo from RSPCA is now recognized by 50 percent of the UK population, a significant increase from last year.
Freedom Food is the RSPCA’s farm assurance and food labeling scheme that indicates that the animal has been treated fairly. The scheme is dedicated to ensuring the […]



Summer sale on fairtrade dresses at Adili

By admin • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: fairtrade, fairtrade clothing

The ethical and fairtrade fashion, clothing and home accessories company Adili continues their summer sale for a few more days offering 20% off on many of their popular womens dresses.
If you are going to look stylish this summer you might as well do it knowing that you are helping producers in developing countries as well […]



Summer sale at Ethical Superstore

By admin • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: fairtrade provider

It is not only the highstreet that is having summer sale at the moment, but also online and with fairtrade and ethical sourced product store Ethical Superstore.
On their site now you will find lots of great ethical and  fairtrade products at up to 80% discount, so get it while it lasts! Among the many product […]



Fairtrade Foundation appoints new chairman

By admin • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: general

As current chairman of the Fairtrade Foundation, Mike Gidney, steps down, he will be replaced by David Clayton Smith, a business and brand consultant from consultancy company Andrum.
Smith is no stranger to the Fairtrade Foundation as he has been serving on the board for the last 10 months. The Fairtrade Foundation is hoping he will […]



Tesco to launch a premium fairtrade cotton clothing range

By admin • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: fairtrade clothing, fairtrade provider

According to Brand Republic, Tesco is in the process of launching a premium and fairtrade clothing range for their stores, changing their pricing strategy compared to their recent price cuts on food items by up to 50% by increasing the price on some of their clothing.
Tesco is planning to become one of the biggest retailers […]



UK’s first Fairtrade Cola - UBUNTU

By admin • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, fairtrade, fairtrade provider

If you are a fan of the fizzy cola drink, but not to happy about the fair trade credentials of the the Coca Cola and Pepsi of the world. Then a new product is here to save your day, it is the first Fairtrade labeled Cola in the UK and it is called UBUNTU.

The word […]



Big plans for UK Fairtrade Foundation

By admin • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: fairtrade

According to a new report from The Fairtrade Foundation in the UK they want to see the market for Fairtrade products increase to £2bn a year by 2012. That is 4 times the current level, so we can safely call that very expansive plans.
The plan also talks about how they want to increase awareness for […]



Worldwide demand for fairtrade cotton doubles

By admin • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: fairtrade

The global demand for fairtrade cotton has doubled in the last year according to numbers from FLO (Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International) as reported by EcoTextileNews.
The report states that in 2007 garments ranging from jeans, towels to cotton wool surpassed 14 million individual items. The doubling in sales came on the back on positive sales in […]