John Lewis ‘Make a difference’ ethical range is a great addition to their product, including energy efficient, fairly traded, organic, and sustainable eco friendly products that will lessen your carbon footprint and provide much needed support for producers all over the world.
23rd of February to the 8th March the UK will see an increased focus on Fairtrade from a wide range of retailers and companies as Fairtrade Fortnight is back to increase awareness about fair trade and the work being done to improve trading standards for producers around the world.
Leading coffeshop chain Starbucks has recently released the good news that in the future all coffee in their stores will be 100% fairtrade in a move that we are sure will be highly welcomed by both their customers and the third world coffee farmers.
One of the worlds most famous coffee retailers, Starbucks, recently announced that they through their “Shared Planet” intiative will be doubling their investment in fairtrade coffee over the coming year.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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