Starbucks Serves up 100% Fairtrade Certified Lattes and Cappuccinos All Across Europe

March 2, 2010 - After a successful launch in the UK, Starbucks stores across Europe (NASDAQ: SBUX) today began serving 100% Fairtrade certified and Starbucks Shared Planet verified coffee in all of their espresso-based beverages. Every one of the more than four million customers in the region per week can walk away with a Fairtrade certified Espresso, Cappuccino, or Latte and help support small-scale farmers and their communities in developing countries around the world.

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Armajaro Trading to Extend Higher Cocoa Price Plan to Coffee

September 7, 2009 - Armajaro Trading, which introduced a “voluntary premium” on the price it charges buyers of its cocoa to help increase output, will extend the plan to coffee, said Nicko Debenham, director for traceability and sustainability.

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Indian small coffee growers strike deal with market leader

March 16, 2009 - Indian partner organisations Prakruthi and Solidaridad South and South East Asia are proud to present a deal with Hindustan Unilever. The market leader in South Asia with its brand ‘Bru Coffee’ will procure sustainable produced coffee from smallholders in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. “This is a major result of the long partnership with the Tropical Commodity Coalition, which not only brought the Indian coffee crisis in the forefront but also has been effective to build capacity of the smallholders to engage with the main roasters in India” according to Dr. Chattopadhayay of Solidaridad SEA. Training and capacity building programs for smallholders and their cooperatives leading towards sustainable coffee production will be set up by Prakruthi in 2009. It is expected that HUL can procure up to 15 thousand metric ton of sustainable coffee by the coffee harvest of 2011.

CFC project to help build capacity in East Africa

April 1, 2009 - At its annual conference in Kigali, Rwanda in February, the Eastern African Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA) announced that it had secured US$5 million in funding from the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) to build certification and verification capacity in the region.

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