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Hotel Chocolat finds it has plenty of room for expansion - Independent
Hotel Chocolat finds it has plenty of room for expansion
Independent
Retailers that launch in foreign countries have to adapt their offer to fit in with local tastes and customs. For Hotel Chocolat, the UK ...
Cocoa price falls at Ivory Coast forecast - Financial Times
Cocoa price falls at Ivory Coast forecast
Financial Times
Cocoa prices tumbled to a one-year low as traders sold the commodity used in chocolate production on forecasts of a strong crop in ...
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Agatha Christie gets death cake tribute from Jane Asher - The Guardian
The Guardian
Agatha Christie gets death cake tribute from Jane Asher
The Guardian
It's death by chocolate made (sort of) literal: a murderously rich chocolate cake has been created by cake maker and actress Jane Asher to mark what would ...
Grocery bills reach new high - Mirror.co.uk
Grocery bills reach new high
Mirror.co.uk
Wheat prices have rocketed 60% year-onyear and rising bread prices are beginning to creep into stores. ...
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Stephen Lloyd MP meets Fairtrade Eastbourne group - Eastbourne Today
Stephen Lloyd MP meets Fairtrade Eastbourne group
Eastbourne Today
Fairtrade Eastbourne has been campaigning for more than five years to help raise local awareness about the benefits Fairtrade brings to producers in poorer ...
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Aberdeen shop may face closure over funding cuts - Aberdeen Evening Express
Aberdeen shop may face closure over funding cuts
Aberdeen Evening Express
ABERDEEN'S Fair Trade status may be under threat due to funding cuts, it was warned today. The Third World Centre, also known as Fair Trade Aberdeen, ...
NYSE Liffe will bring in softs position report at end of month - AgraNet (subscription)
NYSE Liffe will bring in softs position report at end of month
AgraNet (subscription)
NYSE Liffe will start a trial of a daily position report for its cocoa, coffee and sugar contracts at the end of the month, which market users hope will ...
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Fairtrade Africa site delivered by Reading Room - The Drum
Fairtrade Africa site delivered by Reading Room
The Drum
A new website has been developed for Fairtrade Africa by Reading Room as it aims to create better communications between fair-trade growers and potential ...
DAIRY MILK TO REMAIN FAIRTRADE - Mirror.co.uk
DAIRY MILK TO REMAIN FAIRTRADE
Mirror.co.uk
As traditional African drums beat out a pulsating rhythm in a remote village, tribal elders dressed in colourful robes welcome home ...
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Dairy Milk to remain Fairtrade - Mirror.co.uk
Dairy Milk to remain Fairtrade
Mirror.co.uk
As traditional African drums beat out a pulsating rhythm in a remote village, tribal elders dressed in colourful robes welcome home a prodigal son. ...
What's in store today... - Interactive Investor
What's in store today...
Interactive Investor
While cocoa prices may have been surging this week, high street confectionary giant Thorntons (THT) is unlikely to enjoy the same reception when it takes to ...
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Chocolate success at fair trade stall - Warrington Guardian
Chocolate success at fair trade stall
Warrington Guardian
A FAIRTRADE stall on Warrington market is celebrating its nomination as Divine chocolate company's 'Stockist of the Month'. Fair 4 All customers contacted ...
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Use of social criteria such as “fair trade” labels - Lexology (registration)
Use of social criteria such as “fair trade” labels
Lexology (registration)
The extent and manner to which contracting authorities can promote social and environmental goals during a tender process is hotly debated both in the EU ...
Aberaeron in race to become fairtrade town - Tivyside Advertiser
Aberaeron in race to become fairtrade town
Tivyside Advertiser
Wales looks set to take the lead in the race to be the location of the UK's 500th Fairtrade Town. Four Welsh towns, Aberaeron, Blaenau Ffestiniog, ...
OFT to probe Britain's aggregates industry - Reuters UK
Construction Enquirer
OFT to probe Britain's aggregates industry
Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) - The Office of Fair Trade will investigate the aggregates industry to assess whether the tax payer is getting a fair deal from suppliers ...
Office Of Fair Trade Launches Study Of UK Aggregates MarketAutomated Trader
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Office Of Fair Trade Launches Study Of UK Aggregates Market - Automated Trader
Office Of Fair Trade Launches Study Of UK Aggregates Market
Automated Trader
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The UK Office of Fair Trading said Tuesday it has launched a market study into the UK aggregates sector. -The aggregates sector is ...
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Evening markets: London wheat plays catch up with Paris - Agrimoney.com
Evening markets: London wheat plays catch up with Paris
Agrimoney.com
London crops made headway in what trade there was on a thin day for dealing, with US markets closed. A weaker pound, on rumours of heavy selling by a UK ...
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Sulawesi cocoa shipments down by a quarter - AgraNet (subscription)
Sulawesi cocoa shipments down by a quarter
AgraNet (subscription)
COCOA bean exports from Sulawesi, Indonesia's main source, fell 24% in August from a year ago as traders held on to stocks due to lower prices and as trade ...
Fair trade in crosswords - The Guardian
Fair trade in crosswords
The Guardian
The rights and wrongs of Googling as an aid to solving crossword clues have been a theme of my mail in this last month. One solver, referring particularly ...
Hoorah for the double gap yah! - This is London
This is London
Hoorah for the double gap yah!
This is London
Wave goodbye to the gap year because life experience now comes in a 24-month package. The double gap year — like one but twice the size — is the latest ...
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- Hotel Chocolat finds it has plenty of room for expansion - Independent
- Cocoa price falls at Ivory Coast forecast - Financial Times
- Agatha Christie gets death cake tribute from Jane Asher - The Guardian
- Grocery bills reach new high - Mirror.co.uk
- Stephen Lloyd MP meets Fairtrade Eastbourne group - Eastbourne Today
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