Santiago Halty, whose company, Senda Athletics, makes Fair Trade soccer balls, also cites the value of the B Corps community, saying he has turned to other B Corps leaders for advice on sales, marketing and distribution.
This additional money, called the Community Development Premium, is what makes Fair Trade unique.
Jason is the Founder and CEO of Accompany (accompanyus.com) – an online shop of style-conscious apparel, accessories and home décor that is ethically edited for social impact: artisan made, fair trade and philanthropic.
It made fair-trade and organic ingredients priorities.
One day, he saw an online mention of a London company that was making fair-trade soccer balls.
They sourced from regional dairy farms, made fair-trade and organic ingredients a priority, regularly paid almost double the minimum wage to entry-level employees, and committed to donating 7.5percentt of pretax profits to their foundation.
That is why we need a system of international competition that will help to make fair international trade a reality.
"If we're serious about having free trade, then we've got to make sure we also have fair trade, and we don't have fair trade in steel today," Mr. Daschle said.
Theo Chocolate was the first U.S. company to make organic fair trade chocolate, with payments to farmers 2-3 times higher than the market rate.
Diana Lovett, Co-Founder Cissé Trading Company With Cissé (pronounced "see-say"), Lovett strived to create pastry-chef-quality goodies (made from fair trade cocoa powder) while also connecting consumers with the farmers who grew the beans that ended up in the box.
