Fairtrade Profits

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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