With Fairtrade Fortnight fast approaching we felt we should answer the burning question, what exactly is Fairtrade Fortnight and what does it entail? Fairtrade Fortnight happens once every year, where 2 weeks are set aside to raise awareness for Fairtrade products and producers. The annual campaign is organized and promoted by the Fairtrade Foundation, making […]
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Product of the week: Men’s Fairtrade V-Neck T-Shirt
We’ve been debating in the A.M. Custom Clothing office what the best way to showcase our favourite products is. So we decided to launch a new series on our blog called ‘Product of the Week’, where each week the team will pick a product to focus on and explain why we love it. This week […]
Fairtrade Friday – Fairly Square
So this Fairtrade Friday, we want to tell you all about London’s first Fairtrade Bar & Cafe, ‘Fairly Square’. The brand was set up with one core mission, that being to provide a space in London for people who care about economic, social and environmental justice. Fairly Square is great in the day time for […]
Fairtrade Friday – Fair.
So this Fairtrade Friday we want to talk about a fantastic and well named company ‘Fair.’. Fair is the worlds first and unique Fairtrade certified line of spirits. The company have spent a great deal of time locating the finest Fairtrade ingredients for their spirits; using Organic quinoa from the 3000 m high Altiplano plateau […]
Fairtrade Friday – Ubuntu Cola
A.M. Custom Clothing are leading suppliers of Fairtrade products, so as you would imagine we are big advocates of Fairtrade. Each week on our blog we like to introduce you to another one of our favourite Fairtrade brands, or Fairtrade brands we’ve come across during our week; covering everything from food brands, to fully fledged […]
Fairtrade Friday – People Tree
This Fairtrade Friday, we’re want to introduce you to People Tree, a brand that you have quite possibly heard of before, as a result of them being leaders in the Fair Trade movement, through fashion. The brand was founded by Sofia Minney who’s journey began in advertising, within this industry she got to see the […]
Fairtrade Friday – Fair Squared
Fairtrade Friday has come round once again. This week we want to introduce you to a pioneering Fairtrade cosmetic company of which we recently discovered, called ‘Fair Squared’, based in Newcastle and Cologne. They’re firm believers that doing ‘just enough’ isn’t enough, so as a brand they strive to go that extra bit further, which […]
Fairtrade Friday – Tropical Wholefoods
It’s Friday! Time for our weekly Fairtrade Friday blog post, introducing you to a Fairtrade brand you may not already know about! This week we want to introduce you to Tropical Wholefoods. Tropical Wholefoods was founded in the early 1990’s, by Kate Sebag and Adam Brett, while they were working in Uganda. The pair wanted […]
Fairtrade Friday – Green & Black’s
Last week was a busy one, in fact busy is possibly an understatement. Despite copious amounts of caffeine, we just didn’t have enough time to get our Fairtrade Friday blog post in, however thankfully this week it’s back! It’s that time of the week when we tell you about another Fairtrade brand that we love […]
Fairtrade Friday – Just… Fairtrade
So Fairtrade Friday has come round once again, it’s that time of the week where we introduce you to another Fairtrade product or brand. This week we’ve stumbled across a little shop in Leicester called ‘Just… Fairtrade’. It’s an amazing little treasure trove of Fairtrade products, stocking everything from Fairtrade biscuits right through to Fairtrade […]