The French know the trade fair. But to buy it.. Each household spends on average only 17 E per year. Sales amounted last year to 287 million euros (+ 14% despite the crisis), by the Max Havelaar, which accredits 95% of fair trade products.

The market is still relatively small and weighs only one tenth of the bio.

The food is still the size lion’s share, and cotton is a place. But besides coffee, tea, sugar or bananas appear products like vodka and cosmetics. Today, Max Havelaar has labeled 3,015 products from 205 to 246 brands benefiting producer organizations.

It remains the brakes, such as accessibility: it is necessary that the products are available in stores, but they are visible. And the price is generally 10% higher, average conceals wide disparities, with low overhead for coffee, but higher for chocolate stems from the fact that volumes are not very important.

Posted on 07/01/2010 3:50:00 p.m. | The French head of Thomas Cook Group, located in Clichy near Paris, had a strike today, as announced e by Inter earlier in the week. According to unions, 40% of the workforce of 1700 people were disconnected, while management puts the figure at 7.7%. An inside source reports a hundred people on the forecourt of the company.

In agency AFP quoted by Thomas Cook, noting that only 4.6% of employees stopped work, and call center operated normally. The claim relates to wage increases. As such, the removal last year’s participation is considered straw that broke the camel, according to union representatives.

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