Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Scottish Fair Trade Forum is a Scottish charitable body that describes its mission as '...to gain Fair Trade Nation status for Scotland.' [1] The Forum continues to promote the inclusion and use of Fair Trade products through involvement in helping individual towns, schools, [2] councils [3] and public bodies [4] throughout the country achieve Fairtrade Status.
It makes use of volunteers who support the goals of Fairtrade but who may also be committed to the more general concepts of fair trade, ethical trading or concerned by development issues. The concept was pioneered by the Fairtrade Foundation in the United Kingdom , initially held in 1997 in Scotland and directed by Barnaby Miln .
The Fairtrade Foundation is a charity based in the United Kingdom that aims to help disadvantaged producers in developing countries by tackling injustice in conventional trade, in particular by promoting and licensing the Fairtrade Mark, a guarantee that products retailed in the UK have been produced in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards.
An additional public holiday was declared for Monday 19 September, the day of the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Monday 8 May 2023 was an additional public holiday to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. The holiday on 1 January (or 2 January if 1 January is Sunday) is statutory.
Consumers plan to spend an average of $875 on holiday purchases this year, according to a consumer survey conducted by the National Retail Federation.
The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (The Fair Trade Association) is a member-based organization that supports two systems of fair trade. The first is the Australia and New Zealand member of FLO International, which unites Fairtrade producer and labeling initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Holiday season sales rose 9% in 2020 from the year before, and they soared 12.4% in 2021, according to the National Retail Federation. The trade group makes its calculations based on government ...
Fairtrade International was established in 1997. It set private standards relating to labour, cooperative organisation, and the governance of the Fairtrade benefits. The organisation was divided in January 2004 into two independent organisations: [5]