Equal Exchange

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Equal Exchange
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Type cooperative
Founded 1986
Headquarters West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Products coffee, tea, sugar, chocolate
Employees 102
Website www.equalexchange.com

Equal Exchange is a for-profit Fairtrade worker-owned, cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Founded in 1986, they are the oldest and largest Fair Trade coffee company in the United States. The highest paid employee of Equal Exchange may not make more than four times what the lowest paid employee receives[1].

Equal Exchange is currently collaborating with cranberry, pecan, and almond farmers in the United States.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Equal Exchange: About Our Co-op

[edit] See also

ATOs AgroFair · Alter Eco · Artisans du Monde · Cafédirect · Claro Fair Trade · Cooperative Coffees · Ctm altromercato · Divine Chocolate · Equal Exchange · Equita · El Puente · EZA Fairer Handel · Fair Trade Original · Gepa The Fair Trade Company · Ideas · Intermon Oxfam · La Siembra · Oxfam-Magasins du monde · Oxfam Trading · Oxfam-Wereldwinkels · SERRV International · Solidar'Monde · Traidcraft · Twin Trading · Ten Thousand Villages · Veja Sneakers

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