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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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.

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