Global Exchange : time041700.html (#)
„Starbucks, the first big U.S. retailer to sign on, will promote its new coffee beans this fall with in-store posters and brochures and keep the product on the shelves in 2,000 outlets for at least a year. Will the effort percolate through the whole $18 billion U.S. coffee industry? Global Exchange, the San Francisco-based human-rights group that organized the aborted protest, is calling on companies such as Folgers and Maxwell House to follow suit. Warns Medea Benjamin, a Global Exchange official: "Coffee without the Fair Trade seal is very likely sweatshop coffee."“
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„Oxfam is calling for the adoption of a new plan put forward by the International Coffee Organization to take some lower-grade beans off the market, and for the top four coffee-roasting multinationals to pay a fair price for the beans. Oxfam says world coffee prices are at a 30-year low because 8 percent more coffee is being produced than consumed. It says multinational coffee companies are making large profits by charging consumers in rich countries 1,500 percent more than farmers in poor countries are paid for their beans.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 445.html
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Global Exchange : bostonglobe072901.html
„The reason lies in a complex system in which coffee beans can pass through as many as 15 hands between shrub and cup, with price increases along the way. In between the farmer and the exporter are multiple middlemen who mark up prices and pad profits. If farmers object, the middlemen simply turn elsewhere.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/news2001/ bostonglobe072901.html
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Indian coffee board- Exporters Diary - Indian Aroma in Italian Espres Show
„Espresso Coffee using Indian Blends was served to the visitors throughout the fair period. The brochures on Monsooned Coffee, A fine cup, calendars and posters on regional coffees were also distributed.“
http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2004/feb/ exporters_diary.html
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