gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (1996-2000)

gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (1996-2000) ()

  „In spite of the intensive competition on the coffee market, gepa managed to match the record turnover of the year before and exceeded 58 million DEM in the business year 1999/2000. New campaigns focussed on rice to explain the problematic issues of genetic engineering and the patenting of seeds.“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (2002-2003) gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (2002-2003)

  „gepa product sales are increasing further – especially coffee, which is against the trend. Trend products such as espresso and chocolate are even booming.“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (The nineties) gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (The nineties)

  „In 1994, the first cost cutting measures were taken. In 1995, the Fair Trade Verein (Fair Trade association) was founded as a gepa sister company. Later, the Fair Trade Verein was commissioned to do educational work and offer assistance to trading partners. In the same year originated the Fair Trade Beteiligungsgesellschaft (equity investment company), a 100 per cent gepa daughter, with the purpose of offering loans for gepa's capital intensive trading activities.“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle

  „At the beginning there was an idea – today, gepa is Europe's biggest Fair Trade company with an annual turnover of more than 33 million EUR. We buy from over 150 overseas trading partners and offer our products for sale in world shops, supermarkets and health food stores. Government Departments, campaign leaders, representatives from churches, industry and commerce as well as numerous VIPs – they all promote Fair Trade and gepa!“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (2001) gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (2001)

  „the international four Fair Trade networks cooperating under the synonym of FINE (FLO – Fair Trade Labelling Organization; IFAT – The International Fair Trade Association, NEWS! – Network of European World Shops; EFTA – European Fair Trade Association) published a joint document called "Grundlage für eine verbesserte Zusammenarbeit im Fairen Handel" (basic principles for a better cooperation in Fair Trade), which can be seen as the basis of the Fair Trade movement's growing together.“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (The eighties) gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (The eighties)

  „gepa did real pioneer work, launching the first fairly traded organic coffee worldwide in 1986, the Café Orgánico from the Mexican small producers' cooperative society UCIRI.“

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