The Fairtrade Foundation says that UK sales of Fairtrade cotton products in the first nine months of 2008 were over 18 million units worth an estimated £67.1 million, up from 5.5 million units (£27.5 milion) in the same period last year.
The Fairtrade Foundation has also reveals it has ambitious plans to increase the volume of Fairtrade Cotton products to "10% of cotton clothing in the UK by 2012." It also plans to expand the range of product areas to areas such as cosmetics as part of a five-year strategy 'Tipping the Balance', which aims to achieve increase sales four-fold by 2012 to �2.5 billion a year.
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February 22, 2009
UK Fairtrade cotton sales increase
Categories cotton, fair trade
