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In Cup Plus supply Fairtrade Products in our hot drinks vending machines.
Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability
and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.
Fairtrade is a growing international movement with the aim to ensure that producers
in poor countries get a fair deal for their products and are not exploited.
Producers in poorer countries deserve a fair price for their goods and should be
offered a price that covers both the cost of production and a sufficient amount
to guarantee families have an income which they can live on.
Fairtrade offers producers and their families security by offering long term contracts
and enabling the producers themselves to learn new skills which is essential in
enabling them to develop and improve their businesses.
Fairtrade Labelling
In the late 1980's Fairtrade Labelling was developed by Max Havelaar when he launched
the first Fairtrade consumer guarantee label in 1986 on coffee sourced from Mexico.
The Fairtrade Labelling Organisation
(FLO) Board has four producer representatives, two commercial partners and six national
Fairtrade Initiative representatives. The marketing and promotion of Fairtrade products
remain the responsibility of the individual national initiatives. In September 2004
there were 422 Fairtrade certified producer groups (including many umbrella bodies)
in 49 producer countries selling to hundreds of Fairtrade registered importers,
licensees and retailers in 19 countries.
Fairtrade and the labelling of Fairtrade products offers consumers a clear opportunity
of purchasing products directly from the producers producers themselves and by doing
this they can help in the redistibution of wealth to the millions of small-scale
farmers and producers who live in poverty and are unfairly competing against big
companies.
Since Fairtrade has been introduce it now requires companies to pay sustainable
prices (which must never fall lower than the market price). Fairtrade addresses
the injustices of conventional trade, which traditionally discriminates against
the poorest, weakest producers.
More information about Fairtrade can be found on the Fairtrade
Foundation website www.fairtrade.org.uk/
Save the Children
In Cup Plus is working with Fair Instant to raise funds for Save the Children.
Every cup of coffee or hot chocolate you drink from one of our Fairtrade vending
machines contributes to the Save the Children fund.
Save the Children is the only UK and international charity which fights for children
around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence, working
with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face.
Millions of children are still denied basic healthcare, food, education and protection.
Save the Children aims to give every child these basic rights. This bold, radical
stance has helped them achieve dramatic breakthroughs for children and they are
determined to make further changes.
Read more about how to support Save the Children when buying Fairtrade instant coffee,
hot chocolate and sugar from Fair Instant.
Fairtrade Hot Drinks Machines
In Cup Plus supports Fairtrade suppliers of instant coffee, hot chocolate and sugar
by supplying a range of Fairtrade products in our hot drinks vending machines.
Please contact us if you would
like to find out more about the Fairtrade hot drinks we can supply with our drinks
vending machines.
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