Some retailers are not playing fair

The Australian, Entrepreneur:
FAIR-TRADE COFFEE
A lot of companies are selling Fairtrade products at a different price to free trade products and pocketing the difference, Ed Charles reports
SOME companies are exploiting the fair and sustainable certification schemes by charging over and above the premium they pay for Fairtrade coffee beans and boosting their own profits.
Getting to the […]

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Seeking the roast with the most

From The Australian, Entrepreneur:
BOUTIQUE ROASTERS
Unique blends stand out from the crowd, writes Ed Charles
IT’S a typical Melbourne location, an old warehouse off the main drag of Clarendon Street in South Melbourne, better known for its brothels than its beans.
If it wasn’t for the smell of coffee roasting you wouldn’t even know St Ali was in […]

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I’m a Melbourne-based freelance journalist and food blogger. Currently my main areas of expertise are business, management, personal finance and food and drink.

I can be contacted here or via edcharles AT tomatom DOT com (written like this to avoid spammers).

I currently have a weekly column in the Citystyle section of the Herald Sun and write for the Entrepreneur and Wealth sections of The Australian. I have been published in  INTHEBLACK, The Bulletin, CFO Magazine and many more. In the past I have written for AFR Boss, The Australian’s Marketing & Media section and the Financial Times’ Creative Business.

From 1996 to 2000 I was editor of Ad News in Sydney, a period during which I completely revamped the title and paid circulation nearly doubled.

Prior to that I worked in London on business-to-business titles for VNU (Business Age), Haymarket (PR Week) and Centaur (Corporate Money).
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