Posts Tagged ‘fair trade’

At a meeting on Wednesday Greg Valerio, founder of CRED the ethical jeweller, set out plans for the introduction of Fairtrade gold into the UK to an audience of industry insiders, covering retailers, manufacturers, bullion dealers, casters and many other disciplines. His expert audience listened with healthy scepticism to Greg’s plans to assist small scale [...]

Given our commitment to support Tck Tck Tck, the UN-led initiative to prevent further climate change, Shop was very pleased to disover that the Fairtrade & eco-friendly partner for Spring and Autumn Fair International, Shared Earth, has signed up to the grassroots environmental 10:10 campaign.
The September 1 2009 launch of 10:10 – designed to [...]

Guest Blogger Jill Roberson, a partner in gift and home furnishings retail business, The Living Rooms, in Norwich, explains why, for her, the best kind of business is built on strong ethics:
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At The Living Rooms, climate change is something we are very interested in.
We are East Anglia’s largest fair and ethically trading retailer.  This isn’t just an [...]

Any fears that Tesco would completely gobble up the Easter egg market after snaffling the entire stock from Woolies (and putting them on sale in December for gawd’s sake), was quashed by the news that sales of Resurrection treats in Selfridges have soared by 80 per cent. The upper crust department store is doing well on [...]

Well, the optimists have suspected this for ages, but maybe things really aren’t that bad in Britain at the moment. An analysis by the Financial Times suggests that the UK’s manufacturing industry has fared less badly than in other (comparable) countries, and may even be in a good position to: “Benefit during a rebalancing,” according [...]

For the times they are a changin’. Whether you’re up or down, rich or poor, man or woman, black or white, religious or atheist, the chances are you have at least a sneaking suspicion that certain ‘things’ aren’t quite right with the world, even if the sun is shining on you in particular. The plastic soup extending [...]