Fair Trade is trade that satisfies criteria re. the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers and other social and environmental considerations. It's part of an organized social movement which promotes standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in commerce between developed and undeveloped countries.
CREVE COEUR, Mo. and CHICAGO, Oct. 07 /CSRwire/ - Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation today announced productivity, supply chain and sustainability benefits for manufacturers at the 2009 Packaging Machinery Manufacturing Institute's Pack Expo in Las Vegas. John Eaton, vice president of Smurfit-Stone's Automated Packaging Systems...
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass., Oct. 06 /CSRwire/ - Equal Exchange is pleased to announce that Islamic Relief USA has become its newest Interfaith Program partner. The Islamic Relief USA Fair Trade Project was launched at the annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)...
CREVE COEUR, Mo., and CHICAGO, Oct. 03 /CSRwire/ - Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation today announced cost-saving opportunities and sustainability benefits for produce growers and grocers at the 2009 Produce Marketing Association's (PMA) Fresh Summit International Convention and Exposition in Anaheim, CA. Dwight Morris, western...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sep. 21 /CSRwire/ - NextBee Media launches the first community managed Reward Programs Directory to help eCommerce merchants generate buzz about their promotions. With this rewards directory, anyone either looking for rewards programs to promote or start a new...
TORONTO, Sep. 04 /CSRwire/ - As North Americans we are keenly aware of the global recession we are in and the suffering it has caused for people everywhere. We are experiencing a new reality that many of us have never faced before however,...
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Aug. 18 /CSRwire/ - Today, Walmart, TransFair USA, SEBRAE-Minas Gerais and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that a new Fair Trade Certified coffee from Brazil will be sold to Sam's Club members across the country. The two new...
ORLANDO, FL – August 17 /CSRwire/ – Marriott Vacation Club, the premiere timeshare brand of Marriott International (NYSE:MAR) and the recognized worldwide leader in vacation ownership, is not allowing a single key card to go to waste. Resorts have begun replacing the 1.2...
July 22, 2009 - The Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP) is a powerful mediator in the global supply-chain, intent on elevating suppliers' standards of employee treatment to a common, respectable ethic across the world. Key to GSCP's motivations is injecting an effective method...
July 21, 2009 - By CSRwire Contributing Writer Bill Baue of Sea Change Media Walmart and Sustainability. That pairing of terms elicits strong reactions, usually falling into roughly three camps: The "oxymoron" camp, who believe Walmart's business model of overdriven underpaid factory...
Cambridge, MA. - July 1, 2009 - We are distressed to report that on June 14th, conservationist Kuki Gallmann was attacked by poachers on her property in Lakipia, Northern Kenya: http://www.gallmannkenya.org/news.html. The illegal ivory and rhino horn trade is a danger to...
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