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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.
In 2007 together with Twin Trading they helped to found Liberation Foods CIC, the UK's first and only 100% Fairtrade Nut company. [7] In 2009 they launched the world's first range Organic Fairtrade-certified Palestinian Extra Virgin Olive Oils. [8] [9]
World Fair Trade Organization (formerly the International Fair Trade Association) is a global association created in 1989 of fair trade producer cooperatives and associations, export marketing companies, importers, retailers, national and regional fair trade networks, and fair trade support organizations. In 2004 WFTO launched the FTO Mark ...
Clipper is a British Fairtrade tea company based in Beaminster, Dorset, [1] founded in 1984. In 1994, it was one of the first companies in the UK to receive the Fairtrade Mark. [2] [3] Clipper was purchased in 2012 by Royal Wessanen for around £50 million. [4]
Cafédirect has established the Gold Standard, a guarantee to pay above the world market price for coffee, and to support the development of producers. [2] Between 2004 and 2009, Cafédirect paid more than £7.5 million above the market price to growers (including Fairtrade premiums), invested over £3 million in tailor-made programmes to strengthen growers’ businesses, which represents more ...
The company follows the principles of the Fairtrade movement and aims to give a fair wage to individuals, families and cooperatives throughout Asia, Africa and Central America. Buyers are also supporting the awareness raising education work of Fair Grounds in Bradford and the UK.
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]
A fair trade certification is a product certification within the market-based movement of fair trade. The most widely used fair trade certification is FLO International 's, the International Fairtrade Certification Mark , used in Europe , Africa , Asia , Australia and New Zealand .