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„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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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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„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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„CANTON, MA - January 21st, 2004 - Equal Exchange, the nation's #1 brand of Fair Trade coffee, announced today their new partnership with Catholic Relief Services, called the CRS Coffee Project, an ambitious plan by the two organizations to boost consumption of Fair Trade coffee through education and direct marketing of the coffee to the 65 million Catholics in the United States.“
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„CANTON, MA—July 3rd, 2002—Equal Exchange, the nation's leading purveyor of fair trade coffee, has announced that the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is carrying its packaged coffees and tea in approximately 35 of its stores throughout Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, making it one of the first supermarket chains in the U.S. to offer consumers such a wide line of fairly-traded, organic beverages.“
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„Canton, MA. --- The country’s leading fair trade coffee company praised Starbucks for its recent announcement of intent to purchase a small portion of its coffee under certified fair trade terms. Massachusetts-based Equal Exchange pioneered the fair trade coffee movement in the United States in 1986 and to date remains the largest and only company to purchase 100% of its coffee from small farmer cooperatives under internationally recognized fair trade criteria.“
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