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New FT Partners
• Has Beans (CA)
• Outland Java (CA)
• Sierra Mountain
Coffee Roasters (CA)
• Surf City Coffee
Company (CA)
• Europa Rustic Breads
and Coffee (MD)
• Mayorga Coffee
Roasters (MD)
• A & E Custom
Coffee Roastery (NH)
• Red Rock Distribution (NM)
• Tao of Tea (OR)
• Day Chocolate Company (Divine Chocolates; UK)
• Nectar of Life (WA)
Fair Trade in the News
Media coverage of Fair Trade continues to grow, with
articles appearing in the following venues this past
month:
New York Times
Business Wire
Roll Call
Mother Earth News
PR Newswire
KRON News
Bon Appetit
Time Magazine
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Families
from the La Voz cooperative in Guatemala
put much of their income from Fair Trade toward their
children’s education. |
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New
website launches!
Our new website is officially launched! In addition
to beautiful images, lots of valuable information,
and inspiring impacts, our website also features
a new online reporting system that will facilitate
quarterly reports for our partners. |
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Contact Jade Huang, Certification Manager, if you have
questions about using the new form: jade@transfairusa.org.
In an effort to expand our site's Where to Buy section,
we encourage licensed partners to add their retail accounts
that carry Fair Trade by entering their contact data at:
http://www.transfairusa.org/do/enterRetailer
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Trade Certified™ products growing in mainstream
grocery
Roaster partner Equal Exchange (EE) recently announced
that all 140 Albertson's Supermarkets in Washington
and Oregon have begun to stock four of EE's most popular
packaged Fair Trade Certified coffees: Organic Breakfast Blend, Organic
French Roast, Organic Mind Body and Soul blend, and
Organic Decaf. These will be the first Fair Trade Certified products
carried by Albertson's, the nation's third largest supermarket
retailer. |
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Trade Certified chocolate expanding
For all those wanting to make Fair Trade Certified hot chocolate and Fair Trade Certified
mochas, Fair Trade Certified cocoa powder is now available from partner
La Siembra. Contact Kevin Thomson, La Siembra Co-op, (613)
235-6122; kevin@lasiembra.com.
Divine Fair Trade chocolate bars are now available for
sale in the US, imported by SERRV. This brand is co-owned
by Kuapa Kokoo, a Fair Trade Certified cocoa cooperative
in Ghana, providing added value back to cocoa growers.
For more information, contact Sam Tokheim at SERRV, divinefairtrade@aol.com,
tel 608-255-0440. |
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Coffee
Review: Caribbean coffees, request for Fair Trade Certified
samples
Ken Davids, of the Coffee Review, would like to include
Fair Trade Certified coffees in his regular coffee reviews.
His next review will be Caribbean Coffees and he encourages
our roaster partners to send samples (no more than two
per roasting company). Send by March 14. Learn more at
www.coffeereview.com. |
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New
text stickers
New "Fair Trade Certified" stickers with a brief descriptive
text are now available to our roaster partners. At 1"
x 3" the new stickers are a bit smaller than the previous
text stickers, but still contain the same descriptive
text, "By choosing this Fair Trade Certified product…
You are directly supporting a better life for farming
families through fair prices, direct trade, community
development and environmental stewardship". When you need
Fair Trade Certified stickers, please fill out the sticker
request form (we can email or fax it to you) and fax the
completed form to Jade Huang, Certification Manager, at
510-663-5264. You can contact Jamie or Jade with any questions:
jamie@transfairusa.org
or jade@transfairusa.org.
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Fair
Trade at New York University
Responding to student request, NYU Dining Services now
offers Fair Trade Certified coffee at no additional cost at all campus
retail locations that sell coffee, including Java City
locations, Faye's and Founders cafes. |
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