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Fair Trade - A Cooperative Revolution
Cooperatives UK Magazine, Issue 3, 2004
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"Fair trade is founded on an alternative system of ideas and values and it is
important that we don't lose that."
The Cooperative Group was the first major supermarket in the UK to stock fair
trade products - it is now the country's leading fair trade retailer. But what
is the background to this innovation and how are cooperatives leading the
revolution, which is bringing fair trade to both producers in the countries of
the South and consumers across the UK.
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