020 7001 6000Thursday 2nd April 2009:
Bywaters took part in the world's biggest Fairtrade banana-eating record breaker, in total over 390,000 people went ´Bananas´ for Fairtrade. This event took place between noon on Friday 6 March and noon on Saturday 7 March and was in support of Fairtrade bananas, launched in 1994. Now one in four bananas sold in the UK is Fairtrade. Bywaters staff got together on Friday 6th March and each happily tucked into a Fairtrade banana to support the record-breaking attempt.
Fairtrade is about ´better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world´. Fairtrade requires companies to pay sustainable prices, at or above market price. Fairtrade ´addresses the injustices of conventional trade, which traditionally discriminates against the poorest, weakest producers.´ For more information, visit www.fairtrade.org.uk.
