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THE Co-operative Group is more than half way towards its pledge to double the size of its own-brand range of Fairtrade products to 62 by the end of this year with the launch of ten new lines. By the end of the year, Fairtrade sales in Co-op stores should reach £ 21 million, returning an estimated £ 1.25 million a year in premiums to growers in developing countries. Group buyers are also looking at ways to use Fairtrade ingredients in standard supermarket lines. The latest additions now ...

FAIRTRADE drinks company Cafédirect had a record month in March with its roast and ground coffee the UK's second-best seller. Boosted by Fairtrade Fortnight, the company's share of the roast and ground coffee market reached its best-ever figure of 10.5 per cent. It trailed the Douwe Egberts' brand which held a 13 per cent share. In the same period, Cafédirect 5065's value share of the freeze-dried market reached 4.5 per cent and annual sales grew by 28 per cent in a market ...