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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„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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„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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„There are already more than 30 gepa Partnership and Agenda Coffees.“
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„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 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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