So it started with ‘Fairtrade Friday’, however we’ve decided to expand a little, creating ‘Feel Good Friday’. We love everything Fairtrade has to offer, but we are also aware that there are numerous other bodies ensuring ethically and environmentally sound practices across the globe. As well as this in some product supply chains Fairtrade isn’t […]
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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 – 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 – 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 – Pants to Poverty
Friday has come round again and no doubt you are looking forward to the weekend! We’re here with some lunch time reading for you, introducing you to another Fairtrade brand, for our regular Fairtrade Friday post. This week, we want to introduce you to ‘Pants to Poverty’, a brilliant London based brand selling, (you guessed […]
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 […]
Fairtrade Friday – Ben & Jerry’s
Friday has come around again, so it’s time for us to introduce you to another one of our favourite Fairtrade brands! As you may have guessed the team here at A.M. Custom Clothing are big foodies and have a bit of a sweet tooth. On that note we felt it was only fair, to award […]
Fairtrade Friday – Cafédirect
It takes a healthy amount of coffee to keep the wheels turning on a business, which is why this Fairtrade Friday we wanted to introduce you to Cafédirect. Back in 1989, the agreement that had ensured global prices for coffee were fixed in relation to production costs collapsed. This was devastating to the smallholder farmers […]
First Fairtrade Friday
So it started with Screen Print Saturdays, which made for great alliteration and helped us share some of the great work we were finding within the week. So with the onset of Fairtrade Fortnight we thought we could extend this, creating Fairtrade Friday. Fairtrade is something we are very passionate about and so we should […]
