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Now Kaiapoi mother-of-two Sarah Clarke has advanced the idea, baking cakes, desserts and biscuits commercially using fairly traded ingredients. Cakes with a Conscience is New Zealand’s first bakery to offer Fairtrade Certified products that are registered with Fairtrade Labelling Australia and New Zealand (FLANZ). Her Fairtrade product range is the first in Australasia.
Leading office and business essentials supplier Corporate Express began selling Fairtrade Certified coffee in 2006 and has recently expanded its range to include tea, drinking chocolate and sugar. The range now includes over 40 Fairtrade Certified products.
Fair trade, an alternative approach to international trade, seeks to ensure that small-scale farmers and plantation workers receive a fair price for their crops and labour and work under safe conditions. Fair trade is a hugely successful international trend worth over a billion dollars and growing.
Fairtrade Labelling Australia and New Zealand (FLANZ) is seeking a full time Certification Officer to be based in our Melbourne office.
Fairtrade is a dynamic, consumer driven, international movement. It links disadvantaged producers in developing countries with businesses and consumers in the developed world. Fairtrade is about business and trade – not charity. Fairtrade ensures the payment of a fair price for globally traded products and supports disadvantaged producers to access markets, enabling them them to provide for their families and invest in community development.
Sales of Fairtrade labeled products are growing rapidly in Australia and New Zealand, and more and more businesses are signing up to trade in Fairtrade certified products. The internationally recognised Fairtrade system is delivering benefits to disadvantaged producers throughout the developing world.
There is an exciting opportunity for the right person to assume responsibility for certification services in Australia and New Zealand, to guarantee the integrity of the Fairtrade Label and maintain business and consumer confidence in the Fairtrade Certification system. This is a highly unique role in a vibrant and rapidly growing organisation and field, with significant opportunities for career advancement in the coming years.
FAIR TRADE & eCOMMERCE EXPERIENCE VERY HELPFUL.
We just returned from our whirlwind trip to Africa. We found:
Urgent need for small business development assistance.
We need people with:
Entrepreneurial & small business experience;
people that can "make somethin' outa nothin'".
Resourceful; creative; strong people skills.
Knowledge of Fair Trade marketing & eCommerce extremely helpful.
29 September 2008 03:19PM
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Environmental sustainability is the talk of the town.
Everybody’s doing it. Your receptionist is buying recycled paper and your barista is brewing Fair Trade coffee.
Project 10100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
As part of it's 10th anniversary celebrations, Google has launched the
Project 10 to the 100th initiative to find and invest in great ideas
for making the world a better place for all.
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Bholu Pty Ltd has been announced as Winner of the Sensis Social Responsibility Award (for demonstrated leadership and contribution by a business to the environment, people, education or the community) in the Telstra NSW Business Awards 2008.
Bholu Pty Ltd was a finalist in this years Telstra NSW Business Awards in 2 categories; Palm Micro-Business Award(5 employees or less) and a brand new category Sensis Social Responsibility Award. Bholu Pty Ltd will now compete against other state and territory winners in a national final in Sydney, 10th October 2008.
Bholu is a Fair Trade and Climate Neutral Company and part of their proceeds go back to the women and their communities, along with funding education facilities and other programs for underprivileged children.
For more information see www.bholu.com
A recent public survey conducted by Colmar Brunton on behalf of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) indicates consumer recognition of the FAIRTRADE Label has now reached 36% in New Zealand, an increase from a similar survey conducted 2 years ago that showed just 2% recognition at that time.
Retail sales of Fairtrade Certified products in New Zealand grew 60% last year to over NZ$9 million, this is well above the global average of 40%. Global sales of Fairtrade Certified products are now more than NZ$4.8 billion. The UK market is now worth NZ$1.25 billion with 70% public recognition of the FAIRTRADE Label. This all indicates scope for further growth in New Zealand.
Today Oxfam Australia and Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand responded to a factually inaccurate and misleading press release put out by the Institute of Public Affairs, a conservative think tank that is idealogically opposed to fair trade and seeks to promote free trade as the only solution to global poverty.
Both Oxfam and Fairtrade point out that the IPA's claim that the Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC) reprimanded Oxfam for misleading consumers about fair trade is false and, in itself, wildly misleading. Oxfam and Fairtrade invite concerned parties to contact the ACCC directly on this matter.
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