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Recipe Ideas, new flavours & more

We’ve been working with Zuma and Sweetbird for years and love what they do. They consistently produce the highest quality products and are always full of great ideas. They recently released their new catalogue which is chock full of interesting news and great recipes.  In this post we’ve curated the

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Greenwashing

Introduction With the word “ethical” in our company name you won’t be surprised to hear that we are often asked what ethics means to us; why we do what we do; how we do it; and what makes us different to others. Particularly being in the coffee world which in

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Understanding Deforestation

I’ve heard the statistic before but it still both hard to comprehend but horrifying. The need for firewood and charcoal, and thus the effect on forests is a big problem, and when it’s a choice of personal survival or planet I do understand the predicament, and I try to not

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Can blockchain help enforce ethics within the coffee industry?

The Problem For a lot of coffee consumers in the UK, we want more than great tasting coffee. We want our coffee to be grown in sustainable environments that are environmentally friendly. Sadly this has not always been achievable. Not because farmers didn’t want to but because they simply couldn’t

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Conor Woodman ~ Unfair Trade?

Table of Contents Unfair Trade explores “How big business exploits the world’s poor – and why it doesn’t have to” Conor Woodman – an investigative journalist, television presenter, author and public speaker- has looked at who we are and what we claim to do.  How is it that our favourite

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Fine Food Digest ‘Best Brands 2020’

We have been voted one of the UK’s best brands by independent retailers in the latest issue of Fine Food Digest. the magazine is read by independent delicatessens, farm shops, food halls and speciality food buyers. The best brand survey  was created by asking buyers in farm shops, food halls

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Measuring our impact on the environment

One of our passions at home and overseas has always been to find affordable and practical ways to minimise our environmental impact and reduce single-use plastics. As you may know we already do a lot, but recently we’ve been able to do more, and have some further creative ideas in

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A truly eco-friendly cartridge water filter – made in Britain

iX FILTER – for great hot beverages UK MADE  |  COST EFFECTIVE  |  ECO-FRIENDLY The iX filter is the first eco-friendly ion exchange cartridge filter, offering an internal refill to provide a genuinely sustainable and cost-effective alternative to mainstream cartridge filters.  Designed for use on coffee machines, espresso equipment and

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Dr Peter Griffiths on BBC World Business Report

Lead article of the rport (approx 7 mins) – interesting on both sides, and fair. Exresses much of what we have experienced on the ground and been saying for years. Worth a listen. https://web.archive.org/web/20141022171602if_/http://www.griffithsspeaker.com/Fairtrade/BBC%20Fairtrade%20small.wav   From Peter Griffiths: Fairtrade Foundation UK will not appear on a platform with me because

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New research on Fairtrade

‘Ethical Objections to Fairtrade’ by Peter Griffiths has just been published in the Journal of Business Ethics   It quotes a wide range of academic field research and information provided by Fairtrade itself. Its conclusions are: The Fairtrade movement is a group of businesses claiming to trade ethically. The claims are

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