CSR - Focus on Fairtrade Fortnight 2011
Recommend on Google+
Fairtrade comes into the spotlight over the next two weeks as a series of campaigns are run to showcase the growing level of consumer interest (UK sales of over £1bn p.a.) in Fairtrade products….
Not everyone is a Fairtrade fan. The right-leaning Institute of Economics Affairs have penned this piece in the Telegraph which is very critical of the organisation and concept.
However, the overall reception for Fairtrade seems to be pretty positive. That was certainly the case at our packed-out Teacher CPD at Charing Cross today when several delegates came back to the event excitedly reporting on the innovative Fairtrade promotion they had witnessed just around the corner! Two naked actors posed in the window of The Co-operative’s new food shop on The Strand to highlight the start of Fairtrade Fortnight.
I suppose it is inevitable that the likes of the IEA will pick fights with a movement like Fairtrade. But the reality is that the major supermarkets (Sainsbury’s, M&S, Co-op in particular) are getting behind Fairtrade in a big way, which will continue to provide the movement with momentum despite the evidence of a sharp decline in UK consumer confidence.
blog comments powered by Disqus
Fair Trade [13 Dec 2011]
CSR - Chocolate the Bitter Truth [12 May 2011]
CSR - Insights from the Leader of the Revolution [14 Mar 2011]
CSR - Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan [11 Mar 2011]
CSR becomes the Strategy for Co-operative [5 Mar 2011]
CSR at the Movies - Black Gold [23 Feb 2011]
CSR - Cooperative Group invites you to join a revolution [21 Feb 2011]
CSR and Fairtrade Fortnight [2 Feb 2011]
Teaching strategy - Starbucks revisited [24 Jan 2010]
Fairtrade Chocolate - Q&A with Divine [21 May 2009]
Can Fairtrade buck the UK recession? [20 Apr 2009]
Go Bananas for Cadbury and Fairtrade! [4 Mar 2009]
2008 Business Teacher Conference Report - Divine Chocolate [4 Jul 2008]
BUSINESS TEACHER RESOURCE NEWSLETTER
Get first news of business teaching resources, ideas and other materials from tutor2u. Over 9,400 business teachers from the UK and around the world receive our regular teacher email newsletters. Sign up for free here!
