ANSWER TO QUESTION 1: Is it important for coffee marketers such as Starbucks‚ Krafts and Nestle to create “ethical supply chains”? Why? Ethical supply chain means that companies undertakes the responsibility of managing and monitoring social/economical and environmental performances and issues in their supply chains especially at the lower end i.e. the primary producers ( coffee farmers). Yes‚ it is important for coffee marketer to create ethical supply chains. Starbucks‚ Kraft‚ Nestle and
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Fair Trade Coffee: Ethics‚ Religion‚ and Sustainable Production Global Marketing Management International Summer University 2010- WU‚ Wien Table of Contents Introduction 3 Problem Statement 3 The Fair Trade vision 3 Background: The Fair Trade Foundation 4 Background: Fair Trade Labeling Organization International 4 Fair Trade Mark 4 Fair Trade Pricing 5 The Fair Trade Premium 5 Question 1. Why should Starbucks‚ Kraft‚ and Nestle create ‘ethical supply chains’? 6 Question
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Alvin Lau 10/27/12 Fjelstad Anth 115 T Tr 9 – 10:15 Commodity Chain : Coffee Fair Trade Throughout history‚ coffee growers have always been exploited. Since it was first introduced to countries such as Brazil and Vietnam‚ two largest producers of coffee‚ their people were forced into production in basically slave like conditions. Although slavery no longer exists‚ coffee producers still operated in harsh working conditions and received poor wages. After poor regulation in the 1990’s
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Mexican coffee farmers have had an enormous amount of trouble selling their coffee beans at a price that would generate sustainable profit. Nico Roozen and Frans van der Hoff had a vision to implement a fair trade business that would increase not only profits of the farmers but their overall lifestyles. Nico and Frans both face the problem of distribution because fairly traded coffee was distributed only through the so-called Third World Shops that didn’t generate enough demand to create a stable
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buy fair trade coffee‚ as pressure and accusations from NGO Global exchange to do so has presented Starbucks with this challenge. Failure to respond cooperatively to this demand may have negative outcomes- a national boycott‚ which can ultimately harm Starbucks’ corporate image. There are a few risks associated with the fair trade movement; however‚ the benefits of sourcing fair trade are greater in terms of long-term sustainability. I recommend that you impose the implementation of fair trade‚ as
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Introduction and Problem Coming out of a coffee store with a cup of coffee in hand early in the morning is a familiar picture to many people. Nevertheless‚ how many ever wonder how many cups of coffee are sold per day and where is the coffee coming from? The truth might surprise people that coffee bean trading is an ethical trading problem. Coffee is the second most actively traded commodity in the world which has increased from $30 billion to $80 billion in retail sales since 1990. Approximately
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Fair Trade Coffee: Ethics‚ Religion‚ and Sustainable Production Global Marketing Management International Summer University 2010- WU‚ Wien Table of Contents Introduction 3 Problem Statement 3 The Fair Trade vision 3 Background: The Fair Trade Foundation 4 Background: Fair Trade Labeling Organization International 4 Fair Trade Mark 4 Fair Trade Pricing 5 The Fair Trade Premium 5 Question 1. Why should Starbucks‚ Kraft‚ and Nestle create ‘ethical supply chains’? 6 Question
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Title: What is Fair Trade coffee and why companies in the United States should purchase it. Introduction: Andres Agudelo: Share quick facts of who I am and what relates me to coffee. Transition to a speaker favorable statement where I set in the idea that coffee is generally a popular drink‚ involve the audience. Ask the audience (audience member-volunteer) to point out differences between the non-certified free trade coffee and the one that is certified. One participant will be rewarded for participation
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Fair Trade: Consumerism for Global Justice Introduction The Fair Trade movement is rapidly becoming an emerging and dynamic strength to respond to the negative influence of globalization‚ or rather‚ to the contemporary international trade injustice. While on the other hand‚ there is criticism on fair trade‚ claiming that fair trade is not fair and it goes against free market theory. This term paper aims at introducing the development of fair trade‚ justifying its economical and ethical significance
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You’ve probably heard of "fair trade coffee‚" but may not be quite clear on what it actually is. It refers more to a practice than a type of coffee‚ and the emphasis is definitely on the word "fair." Before fair trade was introduced‚ the big â�� very‚ very big â�� business of coffee was all about the huge corporations‚ and maximizing their profits. This meant that most of the billions of dollars made from coffee growing went mostly into those corporations’ pockets‚ but was also funneled to the
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