2004-05 annual report: Delivering opportunities
Published: 30 Jun 2006
Our annual report for 2004-05 provides an overview of key Fairtrade activities and statistics.
"FLO and its member national Fairtrade labelling organizations participate in trade justice campaigning, parallel to bringing more focus to their activities by making the empowerment and development of disadvantaged producers and workers in developing countries their key indicator of success. At present, FLO allows more than one million producers, workers and their dependents to benefit from labelled Fairtrade, using the Fairtrade benefits to send children to school, access to health care facilities or contract a pension. During 2004, labelled Fairtrade generated an estimate of US$100 million in producers additional income thanks to global retail sales of an estimated US$1 billion. This is a growth of 49% in comparison to 2003, demonstrating that for producers, the industry and consumers, Fairtrade is an attractive way to make the world a better place."
– Luuk Zonneveld, Managing Director, Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, from the report's foreword