gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (#)

  „In the nearly thirty years of its existence, Fair Trade has experienced a considerable development and become a serious and well-known economic system, offering a real alternative to conscious consumers, and a social development perspective to producer groups who are disadvantaged on the world market.“

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gepa Fair Trade Company – Chronicle (The nineties)

  „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 (2002-2003)

  „At the same time, the Dambadeniya basket project could celebrate its twenty-year anniversary with guests from gepa as well as other European and international Fair Trade organizations.“

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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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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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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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