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

  „Accompanied by big PR efforts, KDFB (German catholic women's association) presented its first partnership coffee, which had been developed together with gepa as coffee "from women for women". More than 50 per cent of the raw coffee comes from the coffee cooperative RAOS in Honduras, an organization of 225 woman producers.“

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Global Exchange : News Updates

  „Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has announced aninitiative aimed at boosting sales of fair-tradecoffee among the nation's 65 million Catholics. TheCRS Coffee Project partners with the Interfaith CoffeeProgram of Equal Exchange Inc., a Fair-Trade companybased in Canton, Mass. The program includesorganizations from the Lutheran, Presbyterian andMethodist communities. It encourages the 19,000Catholic parishes in the USA to endorse and sellfair-trade coffee.“

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PR Distribution through United Natural Foods

  „CANTON, MA - September 16, 2003 - Equal Exchange, the 60 person employee-owned cooperative that has led the nation in Fair Trade coffee sales since creating the category in 1986, expressed disappointment today at the very modest scope of Procter & Gamble's recent decision to begin selling a Fair Trade Certified™ coffee under its Millstone brand. (see http://www.csrwire.com/article.cgi/2117.html for additional details.)“

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PR Distribution through United Natural Foods

  „CANTON, MA - March 8th, 2003 - Equal Exchange, the nation's leading fair trade coffee company, today announces national distribution through United Natural Foods, a leading independent national distributor of natural foods and related products. Through this arrangement select Equal Exchange products will for the first time be easily available to thousands of retailers nationwide. Working with United Natural Foods in this way significantly advances Equal Exchange's long term strategy of putting their gourmet and organic fair trade products within easy reach of America's natural food shoppers.“

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PR Coffee Crisis

  „CANTON, MA—March 7, 2002—Equal Exchange, the nation’s leader in fairly traded gourmet coffee, announced today record payments of $960,000 in above-market fair trade premiums to small farmer cooperatives in 2001. With coffee growing communities in many developing nations continuing to struggle with record low market prices and deepening poverty, a growing number of small farmers are benefiting from their trade partnership with Equal Exchange.“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (1996-2000)

  „In 1997, gepa startet the professionalization campaign for world shops, still one of its most important matters of concern. The high quality policy of the past years proved to be successful: the organic coffee Esperanza won a coffee test of all big brands, initiated by the consumers' magazine "Plus". gepa's main coffee packages won the European package silver award for innovation, design and environmental compatibility.“

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