Welcome to our new blog

This blog is dedicated to investment in Fair Trade and cooperatives and to the investment community of Equal Exchange in particular. We hope to get to know each better other and explore together how we can advance our common wealth.
Business as usual is destroying our planet, so need some unusual businesses. At Equal Exchange we [...]

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Across 20 years, and now?

First, a quick introduction. I’m Rob Everts, one of Equal Exchange’s co-presidents and a first-time guest blogger. Welcome to our new blog.
Two decades ago we started engaging Americans in how their food overseas was sourced and committed to building an alternative vision of international trade from the prevailing “race to the bottom.” [...]

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Small Farmers, Big Change

That’s our new message at Equal Exchange. Many looked long and hard for something pithy to capture our intent, and are happy it came out so straightforwardly.
Small Farmers
That’s who we support. Not plantations, not factories, not agribusiness.
Big Change
This is more ambiguous, so let’s start off with what it’s not.
It’s not Big Attempt, or Big Profile: [...]

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A Better Bike

Equal Exchange was built with a purpose beyond making money. Determined to start a company that changed the terms of trade, our founders decided to build a different kind of company. So what did they do? Let’s start with an analogy.
Back in the ’70s, almost every bicycle in the U.S. was a form of road [...]

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