Fairtrade Chic

As the first UK retailer, the Co-operative is switching its entire £16 million worth hot beverage category over to Fairtrade.
The consumer owned brand was also the first one to convert their entire own brand coffee over to Fairtrade coffee, and has now also converted their entire tea category, including the famous 99 tea over to […]

Green & Blacks was for a long time one of those chocolate brands that i would see in some of the supermarkets but i never really thought much about buying it. That was until i became fairtrade aware, and i got introduced to the great taste of Green & Blacks chocolate.
As a fan of dark […]

Back in the day the Divine Dubble chocolate bar was created through a partnership between Comic Relief and the Day Chocolate Company, now better known as Divine Chocolate. The idea behind the Dubble chocolate bar was to bring to market the first fairtrade product for kids, that came complete with Fairtrade educational information.
Today the Dubble […]

Divine Chocolate was the first ever Fairtrade chocolate provider aiming at the mass market back in 1998. The co-operative of cocoa farmers in Ghana, Kuapa Kokoo, own shares in the company making the chocolate bar, thereby making small scale cocoa farmers from Ghana owners of a UK based chocolate company.
Today Divine chocolate can be […]

Following our earlier reviews of UK Fairtrade suppliers online, we are this week looking at Simplyfair.co.uk. - Supplier of Fairtrade, organic and sustainable living products.
Simplyfair’s credo is to run their business by providing their customers with certified Fairtrade sources products where available, and offer an extensive range of organic and sustainable products for their UK […]

Easter is just around the corner and it is time to start thinking about getting your loved ones some chocolate bliss in the form of an chocolate easter egg.
The stores have been filled with the standard temptations for weeks already, or ever since Valentines Day was over and all us marketers started thinking about the […]

With the growing interest in Fairtrade products in the UK the number of places to buy fair trade products are also increasing. One of the places online where you can get the best product selection accross a wide range of product groups are Ethical Superstore.
Ethical Superstore has a vision of creating a global change through […]