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How important is it to be consistently ethical? What if a company is fair trade, but has other weak spots in their business dealings? Once such example is American Apparel. They are well know for fashionable, “sweatshop-free” clothing, and pride themselves on having a strong relationship with their workers: For us “sweatshop free” was never [...]
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Saturday is World Fair Trade Day 2009, and to celebrate we have some facts about the history of Fair Trade: Fair Trade certification first began in 1988. It was first called Max Havelaar, after a character in a nineteenth-century Dutch novel The first fair trade product was Mexican coffee that was sold in Denmark. There [...]
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According to Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, the company are about to start “telling their story.” The cynics among you will argue that this is just another case of back-pedaling, when the corporate giant decides to announce “actually we’ve been into ethics all along.” However it’s hard to ignore the good press they get from [...]
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