The phrase "trade brands" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to brands that are specifically associated with trade or commerce, often in the context of products or services.
Example: "The market is flooded with various trade brands, each vying for consumer attention."
Alternatives: "commercial brands" or "business brands".
PARAGON TRADE BRANDS INC., Norcross, Ga., said it would sell its feminine-hygiene business to focus on making diapers.
Inspired by fair trade brands, such as Equal Exchange and Guayaki, in 2005 we decided to commit our company's full financial and staffing resources to converting all major raw materials and supply chains to certified fair trade status.
This was done despite protests from small-scale producer groups within the fair trade system as well as significant opposition from committed fair trade coffee roasters and other committed fair trade brands, advocacy organizations such as my own, and consumers.
Being a fair trade brand is a baseline for being a good business; not a differentiator.
He criticised Ryan over trade, branding him a "soulless globalist" and promising to "repatriate" jobs to America.
It sells plenty of Fair Trade branded coffee: indeed, it claims to be North America's biggest purchaser of Fair Trade beans.
Should these decisions be made by Starbucks instead?He links to another interesting critique, made by "Undercover Economist" Tim Harford, who describes the way in which fair-trade products enable coffee bars to price discriminate Costa, like most other coffee bars these days, offers 'Fair Trade' coffee - theirs comes from a leading fair trade brand called Cafedirect.
He never cared to talk about exports, trade, branding and so on; he left all that to others, because he hated to let his emeralds go.In August 2011, in his 4x4, surrounded by his bodyguards with their bling and Uzis, he drove to the bank in Bogotá.
The hugely successful Fair Trade brand allows many coffee addicts to get their fix with a clearer conscience, safe in the belief that no farmers have been exploited in the growing of it.So no wonder that Starbucks, an up-market global coffee chain, has reacted like a scalded barista to criticism from Oxfam, a development charity.
(The Earl Grey from the fair trade brand Equal Exchange is a fragrant, refreshing, fortifying option for a lovely morning tea).
I would not be doing it were it not for Bono's inspirational work with ONE, (RED), and his wife Ali's work with the fair trade brand Edun.
