# Global Fairtrade sales increase by 40% in 2006

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/26/global-fairtrade-sales-increase-40-2006/
- Published: 2007-07-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Consumers worldwide spent 1,6 billion Euros on Fairtrade Certified Products in 2006,
according to Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO). This is a 41%
increase on the previous year, directly benefiting over 1,4 million producers and
workers worldwide.
The growth in product sales was matched by an increase in the
number of licensees (companies that sell the final packaged Fairtrade Products) 
in 2006 from 1514 to 1954, with some companies making major commitments to supporting
Fairtrade.

UK supermarket Sainsbury’s announced the conversion of its entire banana range to
100 per cent Fairtrade Certified last December. Marks & Spencer, another UK retailer,
responded to its customers’ desire for ethical products when it converted its entire
tea and coffee range to Fairtrade in April 2006. Global retailer and franchiser 
Dunkin Donuts adopted a policy of 100% Fairtrade espresso coffee in Northern America
and Europe. In September 2006, Insomnia Coffee Company in Ireland announced that
all coffee served from outlets across the country would be 100 per cent Fairtrade
Certified and Scandic and Hilton, one of Sweden’s major hotel chains, announced 
in October that it would switch all its coffee to Fairtrade.

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