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Fairtrade Clothes for the Coop?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

the-co-operative-logoDid you know that the Coop is a great supporter of Fairtrade goods?  It was the first supermarket to produce its own range of Fairtrade goods way back in 2000.  It sells Fairtrade tea, coffee, chocolate, including some very nice treats, wine and more.  It even sells Fairtarde flowers!

The really good news is that the Coop has had a really good period over Christmas with sales up 6%.  It’s has bucked the trend against high street and done well – and that must be good news for Fairtrade sales, too!
What else can the Coop do?  How about some Fairtrade Clothes? Now that would be a great niche for the Coop and a great way of distributing more Fairtrade products….

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Just Starting Out

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Fairtrade has its critics.  To be honest, nothing is perfect and we have to accept that.  However, I think that we need to look at the big picture, here.

Europe imported virtually no merchandise from China as late as 20 years ago.  It now runs at more than €250 billion a year.  That is an incredible growth.

Fairtrade sales in the UK were only £16.7 million in 1998 but have now grown to around half a billion pounds a year.

The point is that things are changing.  Fairtrade is really only just starting out and will evolve.  Yes, Free Trade is really important and brings about efficiency, competition, innovation and so on, but Fair Trade has its place.  The problems and disadvantages of the Fairtrade movement will be overcome as time goes on.

To the people who criticise Fair Trade I say give it a chance, it’s only just starting out!

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