Mondeléz – Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail!
Mondeléz need our help! Following our campaign for a traffik-free Toblerone last year, the global chocolate giant behind Cadbury and Toblerone announced $400m plans to work against human trafficking and other abuses rife in their cocoa supply chains. This big promise sat alongside huge revenues for the company: $9.5bn at the end of 2012. Despite the … Read more
Bad Romance?
It’s that time of year again, when the world turns pink with sentimental cards, heart-shaped chocolates and long-stemmed roses. Happy Valentines Day! Whether you swoon with satisfaction or retch with repulsion at the thought of Valentine’s Day, it’s hard to deny that these days, it’s taken on a life of its own. According to some … Read more
Mondelēz announces $400m investment in sustainable cocoa
STOP THE TRAFFIK welcomes yesterday’s announcement from Mondelēz that they will be investing $400 million over ten years to help people in cocoa farming communities. This has the potential to change the lives of children being exploited, and to prevent children being trafficked onto cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast in future. Whilst welcoming such … Read more
Okay, Nestle. We’ll take a break…
With the announcement that as of 2013, Kit Kat two-finger in the UK and Ireland will join its four-finger sibling in going Fairtrade! It’s busy work, pressuring companies to weed out trafficking in their supply chains. Today, for a moment, we can have a quick break and celebrate; from next year we no longer have … Read more
Did you find traffik-free Easter eggs?
STOP THE TRAFFIK activists around the world have been telling us how difficult it is to buy Traffik-Free Easter eggs this year from their local supermarkets. So together we are calling on all supermarkets to fill their shelves with traffik-free Easter eggs in 2013. Supermarkets are placing orders for Easter 2013. Now is the moment … Read more
