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Fair Trade Certified™ Consumer Packaged Goods

Ready to begin your better business journey? Fair Trade Certified is your ticket! Here is how sourcing Fair Trade consumer packaged goods is beneficial to your business.

Solidify your supply chain resiliency.

  • Actively manage potential risk with rigorous Fair Trade standards ensuring safe working environments and improved conditions, wages, working hours, benefits, and the elimination of forced labor and poverty.
  • Improve operational efficiency and performance.
    • Get support and training in field to help ensure compliance to Fair Trade Certified Standards.
    • More sustainable income and better working conditions increase worker retention (less turnover and absenteeism) with more satisfied and engaged employees.
  • Improves workers’ lives and communities with Community Development Funds that contribute to long-term improvements in supplier communities, increasing resiliency.
    • Fair Trade Community Development Funds go directly to initiatives determined by workers for their benefit that support communities.
    • The Fair Trade Committee process engages worker voice and participation.
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Advance your Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals

  • Accelerate your ESG/Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals.
    • With over 120 KPIs tracking to the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), your partnership with Fair Trade USA unlocks metrics that help deliver on environmental, social, and economic sustainability commitments.
    • Get visible, real outcomes.
  • Help accelerate B-Corp Certification.

Strengthen your brand

  • Mitigate potential reputational risk such as undetected labor violations in your supply chain.
  • Have confidence in the credibility of your commitments and demonstrate authenticity to consumers. Fair Trade USA is ISEAL Code Compliant. Our system has been independently evaluated against ISEAL’s Codes of Good Practice.
  • Ensure traceability and transparency with data.
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Build loyalty and meet consumer demand

  • More than 60% of consumers recognize the Fair Trade Certified label.
  • 78% of consumers trust the Fair Trade Certified label.
  • 1 in 3 consumers are more likely to purchase with the Fair Trade Certified label.
  • 75% of consumers indicate a third-party certification provides trust that a product/company is taking sustainable action.
  • Find more U.S. consumer insights here.

Wholesome: Creating a Virtuous Circle with Fair Trade Certified

Nigel Willerton, founder of Wholesome Sweeteners, shares how the Fair Trade program and consumer packaged goods certification helps create a virtuous circle for producers, businesses, and customers.

Choosing Fair Trade Makes a Difference

400

Certified Organizations

Accelerate sourcing on Fair Trade Certified terms – Tap into 400 Fair Trade Certified producer organizations.

$12M

Development Funds

In 2021, Fair Trade Certified CPG partners and suppliers of sugar, coconut, cocoa, and tea generated $12M+ in Community Development Funds used to foster prosperous communities and resilient supply chains.

3.3%

Average Increase

Dollar sales at a national retailer increased 3.3% on average in the 6 months after adding the Fair Trade Certified label to their products

Ready to learn how Fair Trade Certified can work for you?

Fill out this form to take the next step in the Fair Trade consumer packaged goods certification process!

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U.S. Consumer Insights Report

See why more than 1,500 companies have chosen Fair Trade certification to meet sustainability goals, increase brand trust, and reach more shoppers.

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