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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

For a cup that’s easy to make but full of real coffee bean flavour, Cafe Direct have created Classics Medium Roast. A high quality, delicious instant coffee made from a unique blend of Arabica and Robusta beans from all 26 of their coffee growing partners around the world. The beans are now roasted a little longer than before, giving a smooth full-bodied taste with delicious hints of caramel sweetness.
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.
* FREE DELIVERY FOR ORDERS WITH A VALUE OF OVER £250 *
There is a fixed delivery charge of £9.50 per delivery per site for orders valued at under £250.
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* DELIVERY IS FREE FOR UK ORDERS WITH A VALUE OF OVER £250 *
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N.B. If you are looking to buy coffee in quantities of less than 6 x 1000g or 12 x 227g, please go to our retail site at www.ecocoffeeshop.co.uk
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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.
For deliveries outside the UK, please contact us by telephone (01342 833723) or email (enquiries@ecocoffee.co.uk) for a quote.
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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
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contact us by post at
Manor House, East Grinstead Road, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6NE
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Tel 01342 833723
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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
Coffee prices took a major dive in the second half of 2008 but are now rising again. The long term projected uptrend is also good news. Prices are now (September 2009) stabilising around and above the 3$ per kilo mark, having plummeted to near 2.50$ per kilo in the early part of 2009.
Demand for Arabica beans is expected to grow at a faster pace than for Robusta. 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.
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