Fair World Marketplace was a fair trade store
(a Ten Thousand Villages partner store) located in Syracuse/DeWitt, New York. Over seven years, sales from this store provided more than $250,000 in income for artisan and farmer co-ops throughout the world. Declining sales following the 2008 recession forced the store's closure in 2011.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Holiday Specials at Fair World Marketplace

Join us in Celebrating the Holidays with fairly traded, handmade gifts from around the world.
Beginning October 29th, we will be running eight weeks of Holiday Specials. Each week we will have new specials offered until the items are gone, so be sure to visit us online or in the store and see what’s new.

To start the season off we have some great specials for this week:

These holiday ornaments make a perfect addition for your tree this year, or a great gift.
This stunning red ornament is made from hand-blown glass in India. Our regular price is $6.95, and our special is $3.99

This frosted white glass ornament also comes to us from India. It is regularly $12.00, and is on special for $7.50.





This elegant, hand-painted vase is crafted in Vietnam. Our regular price is $22.50, our holiday special is $15.99.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Equal Exchange--Fair Trade Pioneer

Since opening, Fair World Marketplace has proudly sold Equal Exchange coffee and chocolate. Now CSRWire has profiled the company:

For more than twenty years Equal Exchange has been a pioneer in redefining corporate structure and in raising awareness of fair trade practices with farmers around the world. As one of oldest thriving cooperatives in America, they are deeply respected not only for the way they run their own business, but for being a company that has long lived its mission: to create a new model of bringing the best from farms to the consumers in a manner that is direct, fair and sustainable to all.

For the rest of the story, see Worker-Owned Cooperative Thrives as Fair Trade Pioneer.