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Ethical Superstore
Welcome to Ethicalsuperstore.com, a great place to do all your Fair trade, Organic, and Eco-friendly shopping. We welcome you to ‘Buy What You Believe’, anything from Fairtrade and organic grocery shopping, to energy efficient gadgets, to unique ethical gifts that give back to the people that made them.
Mongozo
Mongozo means 'to your health' in the native language of Henrique Kabia, one of the founders of Mongozo beer. His language is that of the Chokwe people, who live scattered over Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Chokwe culture it is the women who brew beer, a tradition stretching back over two centuries. Before they started making beer they used to use palm nuts to make wine. it is one of Henrique Kabia's great-great-grandmothers who was responsible for bringing about a significant change; instead of making palm wine she began making palm beer. Over the centuries her recipe was handed down from mother to daughter. Henrique's mother brewed palm beer too, but she had no daughters. She decided to break with tradition and initiate her son onto the mysteries of brewing beer. The same recipe was in his hands when he arrived in The Netherlands as a refugee in 1933. The recipe formed the basis for a new, exotic beer line with which a whole new dimension was added to the European beer tradition. You can enjoy Mongozo beer in four different flavours - coconut, banana, palm nut and Quinua.
Old Hamlet Wine and Spice Company
LEADING BY DESIGN Our designs include traditional calico drawstrings sacks and distinctive gift boxes, suitable for all sorts of retail oulets. We also offer an 'Own Branding' service for customers wanting their own designs on aspects of the range. We exhibit at two trade shows: International Spring and Autumn Fairs, at the NEC in Birmingham (February and September). Our full range includes mixtures to add to beers, wines and spirits for the creation of mulled and chilled drinks as well as delicious blends for dressing, marinades, sauces and dips. All the products make original and affordable gifts. Many of our products make ideal presents for children to give to adults and readily fill that difficult slot of gifts for men. At Christmas time they make excellent stocking fillers or tree decorations and even original, inexpensive and, above all delicious presents for people of all walks of life.
The co-operative
As a member-owned organisation, The co-operative Food’s approach to determining the ethical priorities of our business is unique amongst retailers in that it is based on a member and customer mandate. The Co-operative Food Ethical Policy is our commitment to improve our ethical and environmental performance in line with our members’ expectations, and aims to maintain our position as the UK’s leading responsible retailer. In 2007 over 100,000 of our members and customers came forward to contribute to the development of the policy. In response, this consultation – the world's largest ever poll on ethics – has been developed to reflect the issues and priorities that matter most to our members: ethical trading; animal welfare; environmental impact; food quality, diet and health; and community retailing. We have already made a number of big announcements and changes in line with members' priorities, such as ending the sale of eggs from caged hens amongst others.
Westerham Brewery
Established in 2004 by Robert Wicks, The Westerham Brewery Company is proud to bring brewing back to the historic town of Westerham. With a rich brewing heritage, Westerham can once again be proud of locally brewed, top quality real ales. Producing exceptional real ales for the local market, we support the initiative to reduce food miles in the supply chain. Many ‘national brands’ are transported long distances and suffer from poor storage and handling. Locally sourced, our malt and hops are chosen with skill and care to produce ales with a distinct yet traditional flavour. The local hard water, which percolates through the Lower Greensand Ridge to the south of Westerham, is excellent for brewing ales such as the IPA for which Westerham was once famous. The Westerham Brewery Company will revive many of the much-loved flavours of the old Black Eagle Brewery, which closed in 1965 following the catastrophic consolidation by the ‘Big Brewers’ in the 1950’s. We have recultured the yeast from the Black Eagle Brewery. Back in 1959, after the takeover by Taylor Walker, the Black Eagle Brewery deposited freeze dried samples of their yeasts with the National Collection of Yeast Cultures, no doubt sensing that it might be lost forever. Now, 45 years later, we have revived these yeast cultures. Combined with water from the same aquifer that served the old brewery, we hope to capture the essence of what made Westerham's ales famous. Ethical and green issues are very important to us. To that end we have embarked on the following initiatives : * Encouraging the planting of new hop varieties in a new organic hop garden at Scotney Castle * Paying a significant proportion of the sales of the Little Scotney Ales to reinvest in the hop garden at Scotney Castle * Launching one of the first Fairtrade beers on draught - William Wilberforce Freedom Ale * Tithing 10% of the profits of the William Wilberforce Freedom Ale to Stop the Traffik * Tithing 10% of the sales of Gods Wallop to a charity each Christmas * Instigating land spreading of our effluent on the land to replace trucking it away * Purchase of an LPG powered delivery van and a hybrid sales car * Reducing water usage in the brewery * Removing all plastic waste from our bottled beer products and replacing with recyclable items
