Trade Aid New Zealand

Let's talk coffee! ☕️ Did you know Trade Aid is one of the largest importers of green coffee in Aotearoa? We’re proud to supply and partner with coffee roasters who share our love for fair trade and organic beans. 🌱 When we import fair trade coffee, we pay our overseas trading partners more than what they'd get in traditional markets. That means they have improved access to fairer pay, better education, agricultural support, tech upgrades, and more! 🚜💡 Since 2020, we have channelled over $12 million NZD of additional fair trade and organic value to our overseas trading partners. In the 2023/2024 year an extra $1,233,101 NZD was paid to our overseas partners specifically for social impact and capacity building projects. How cool is that? 🙌 You can find fair trade coffee from social conscious roasters, cafes, and even in supermarkets. Next time you're sipping your daily brew, check if it’s fair trade – your cuppa can make a real difference in the world! 🌍 📸 Joey and Nathaniel from Trade Aid HQ with a 69kg bag of organic Arabica Green Coffee from our fair trade partners at COMSA. 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/giDqNcdb

Trade Aid recognises its 50 years of achievements and success during which the lives of thousands of producers and farmers have been improved. Trade Aid also has a responsibility to ensure the organisation's viability for the next 50 years. Like many other retail businesses, Trade Aid has faced a challenging environment in the past two years. The cost-of-living crisis has led to rising costs and diminishing sales, which has significantly impacted on the organisation's financial performance.   To ensure its ongoing sustainability, Trade Aid has made the difficult decision to begin the process of progressively reducing its retail network. However, through focusing on importing, wholesaling, and selling online Trade Aid remains committed to its purpose; to improve producers’ and farmers’ lives through providing them with a fair income and a way out of structural poverty, and to raise Kiwi’s awareness of fair trade. Trade Aid has evolved from humble beginnings to become the centre of a fair trade community of like-minded individuals, retailers, and businesses. This community includes 500,000 producers and farmers in 25 countries, over 1,300 Kiwi businesses, volunteers, staff, and consumers that by making ethical purchasing choices are changing the world for good.   Whilst most Kiwis will think of Trade Aid as stores selling baskets, rugs, and bags, over the last 50 years Trade Aid has evolved to become both an importer and wholesaler of food and craft products, selling to supermarkets as well as much loved New Zealand brands and retailers. Trade Aid has established itself as the market leader in fair trade coffee sourcing, facilitating ethical supply chains for some of New Zealand’s most iconic coffee brands, as well as selling coffee to local roasters and retailers. You may actually be consuming Trade Aid products without realising it. Trade Aid’s business model is adapting to focus on online retail sales and wholesale craft, food, and coffee, making it easier for anyone, anywhere in New Zealand to purchase fair trade products. Trade Aid aims to make fair trade products more accessible to Kiwis through inspiring more New Zealand retailers and manufacturers to purchase guaranteed fair trade products. Trade Aid would like to thank staff, volunteers, and customers that have supported Trade Aid and the fair trade movement. Trade Aid remains unwavering in its purpose; to educate and inspire others to support fair trade and to improve producers and farmers’ lives by providing them with a fair income through trade.   Photo Credit: Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Ethiopia.

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Yesterday Trade Aid's Co-Founder Vi Cottrell chatted with Jesse Mulligan as part of their Afternoons segment, Bookmarks. Vi shared some of her favourite music and books along with some stories on how 50 years ago she Co-Founded a pioneering social enterprise that sought to change the entire system of trade in Aotearoa to be fairer 🌏📢⚡️ Listen here → https://lnkd.in/gsUyJC2F