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Chobani launched Fair Trade Certified versions of all of its 32-ounce, multi-serve Greek yogurt tubs, including Whole Milk Plain, Low Fat Plain, Non-Fat Plain, Strawberry Blended and Vanilla Blended. These are the first dairy products to get the certification, the organization said.
Chobani worked with Fair Trade USA to develop a special certification program for U.S. dairy farms and cooperatives. It grew out of Chobani’s Milk Matters campaign, launched in 2019 to determine an agricultural production standard for the dairy industry that considers product traceability, supply chain transparency, safe and non-discriminatory work conditions for employees and internal compliance systems. This standard is now available for dairy companies seeking Fair Trade certification.
Chobani debuts first-ever Fair Trade Certified dairy items on national retail shelves
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All of Chobani s 32oz, multi-serve containers of Greek Yogurt will now be Fair Trade Certified™ and available in all major grocery and retail stores.
OAKLAND, Calif. May 6, 2021 /CSRwire/ Fair Trade USA® and Chobani, LLC have launched a groundbreaking certification program for U.S. dairy farms and cooperatives that provides financial premiums to dairy farmers and workers, which will help protect and empower them while raising sustainability standards.
The announcement is an outgrowth of Fair Trade USA’s partnership with Chobani, which announced its Milk Matters™ program in 2019 to further its commitment to support economic, environmental, and social standards throughout the company’s milk supply chain. The fair trade certification program is available to milk producers throughout the U.S.
Chobani Launches The First Fair Trade-Certified Dairy Product In The U.S.
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“Farmers are the most beautiful, the hardest-working people. But the conditions are hard, and the conditions have been hard for farmers for a long, long time,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, the billionaire founder of Chobani.
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Billionaire yogurt entrepreneur Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder of food company Chobani, has long been known as an innovator and someone whose company supports refugees and immigrants. On Thursday, Chobani known for its Greek yogurt becomes the first in the U.S. dairy industry to be certified with the Fair Trade seal of approval. The certification, bestowed by a nonprofit trade group called Fair Trade USA, indicates that Chobani a $1.5 billion (2020 revenues) company with 2,200 employees has been working with U.S. farms and cooperatives to improve working conditions.
West Africa s provider of high-quality housing and housing finance solutions announced an updated logo and a return to its founding corporate identity as Jobomax, on the heels of the expansion of its housing offering from its main operating base in Guinea to Sierra Leone and throughout the region.
Robert Hornsby, the Co-founder and CFO, offered some background on the evolution of the company branding, When our company entered the housing business in 2014, we already had years of experience working with women s cooperatives in West Africa to develop more stable export markets for their fair trade products. To make a distinction between the Fair Trade Certified import work we had done under the Jobomax brand in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali and the housing work we were launching in Guinea, we created the American Homebuilders of West Africa (AHWA) brand and matching logo.
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