Not many industries or sectors can boast a 40% rise in one year, but the UK Fairtrade Foundation can. Globally, sales of certified products are up to €1.1 billion in 2005.
Luuk Zonneveld, managing director of FLO International says:
Fairtrade’s significant worldwide growth in 2005 also shows that more and more producers, traders and suppliers trust the Fairtrade Certification Mark and look to join the system. Increasingly companies are knocking on the door of the labelling organizations because they want to have the Cer¬tification Mark on their products. In the past year alone, the number of companies offering Fairtrade Certified products increased by 29%.
As more and more companies and stores stock Fairtrade these figures are obviously set to increase.
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Thanks for pointing this stat out PSFK
Makes sense to me and I suspect this is just the beginning.
Although I also see a new broader certification system on the horizon allowing western producers to claim ethical status i.e. a company in London UK that produces t-shirts made from organic fairtrade cotton and using as harmless dyes as possible in their screenprinting plus with superb labour standards for their staff and all done with renewable energy…and so on.
Maybe it already exists?
Tricky for sure…
Namaste
Al
June 28th, 2006 at 8:41 am