Smile, it’s good news from Tate and Lyle!
Feb 25th, 2008 by Jenny
Ethical brides and caterers may well be smiling with the recent news from Tate and Lyle, reported by the Fairtrade Foundation last week. The giant sugar manufacturer is about to start converting all its sugar to be Fairtrade certified!
They hope to have converted all their retail sugars by the end of 2009, starting now with their most important product - white granulated sugar. Other sugars will follow. This is brilliant news for 6,000 growers in Belize, who will be entering the Fairtrade system following 2 years of work on the ground. It’s one of the biggest certification and product conversion projects in the history of Fairtrade - the volumes of sugar for 2008 alone are ten times the total volume of Fairtrade sugar sold in the UK (in every kind of product containing sugar) in 2007.
Hooray! Making ethical desserts, wedding cakes and edible favours might now get a whole lot easier. Read more about it from Tate and Lyle here: http://www.tateandlyle.presscentre.com/content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=763&NewsAreaID=2