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Ecocoffee is pleased to work with Cafédirect, the UK's largest Fairtrade hot drinks company, to offer their brands, Cafédirect, Teadirect and Cocodirect, to our customers. You will find the Cafedirect products by following the links to Instant Coffee, Tea Bags and Hot Chocolate.
Cafedirect farmers have the expertise to provide the exceptional quality that our customers require. Cafedirect buy from 39 producer organisations in 13 countries, ensuring that over a quarter of a million growers receive a decent income from trade. This also ensures that you enjoy the finest selection of coffees, teas and chocolate drinks for your business or organisation.
As part of their Gold Standard Fairtrade policy, over the past three years Cafedirect has invested on average 60% of their profits in the businesses and communities of their grower partners.
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CAFE DIRECT INSTANT COFFEE
Cafédirect instant coffees are 100% Fairtrade. This means that their products are all certified by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) and meet the criteria for paying a fair price to growers. In fact, Cafédirect go beyond the Fairtrade criteria and have a unique pricing structure.
Fairtrade minimum prices for unroasted green coffee beans are as follows:
• Arabica coffee Fairtrade price: 131 US cents/lb
• Arabica organic coffee Fairtrade price: 151 US cents/lb
• Robusta coffee Fairtrade price: 111 US cents/lb
• Robusta organic coffee Fairtrade price: 131 US cents/lb
Whenever the market price goes beyond these minimum prices, Fairtrade stipulates to pay the market price plus 5 US cents/lb premium. Cafédirect go a bit further: they take the market price and pay the growers this price plus an extra 10% premium.
What’s more, their Gold Standard policy also ensures that a significant amount of their profits is reinvested into Producer Partnership Programmes. From 2003 to 2006 they reinvested on average 60% of their profits.
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Fairtrade certification guarantees farmers will receive a fair payment for their investment and hard work, regardless of market fluctuations. This encourages long term community development and empowerment, and consistent production of the finest quality coffee beans.
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You can buy and pay on-line if you wish. If you prefer to order and/or pay without going through the web site, please contact us as below to place your order and/or to discuss terms.
CONTACT US by email at enquiries@ecocoffee.co.uk
... or
contact us by post at
56 High St,Oxted,Surrey,
RH8 9LP
... or
Tel 01883 717483
Fax 01883 714128
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Our Premium Blend coffee is blended specifically for food service requirements, being especially suitable for both pure espresso and espresso based milky coffees, but also as a longer black coffee.
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Rising Prices Good News for Coffee Farmers
Source: Dow Jones Newswires & ICO
May 2008
Coffee prices have risen by 30-40% over the last year and are projected to be on an uptrend over the next three years. The International Coffee Organisation reports (May 2008) that price levels are firm and price volatility has become less intense. Average prices in the first four months of 2008 are higher than those recorded during previous months. However, the US dollar continues to weaken against other major currencies while prices of oil products are still rising, thus further increasing costs in the coffee supply chain of important items such as transportation and fertilizers. Some exporting countries have announced support measures for coffee producers to help them cope with constantly growing fertilizer costs and unfavourable exchange rate movements.
Demand for Arabica beans is expected to grow at a faster pace than for Robusta, according to a recent Morgan Stanley report. The move by companies such as McDonald's, Maxwell House and Dunkin Doughnuts to use only Arabica beans for their coffee is indicative of a reversal in the trend towards cheaper robusta coffee from traditional Arabica varieties, which started in the 1990s, said the report.
Arabica coffee on the Intercontinental Exchange is projected to average $1.25 per pound in the current market year ending September, and rise to $1.31/lb the following year, reaching $1.50/lb in 2011.
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