Rodney North co-owner and Board Chair of Equal Exchange to Keynote at May 11 Workshop

We are pleased to announce that Rodney North co-owner and Board Chair of Equal Exchange will keynote at our May 11 Workshop.

Rodney serves as an all-purpose information resource for Equal Exchange staff and the public and is responsible for public relations. He has been with the co-op since 1996, is one of the co-op’s 95 ‘worker-owners’, and is Chair of the Board of Directors.  Rodney will talk about Equal Exchange's innovative business model and how they have built their brand to be the standard for fair trade food and beverage concept in the United States.

Equal Exchange is an employee-owned worker co-operative best  known for their organic, Fair Trade, specialty coffee, tea & chocolate and for pioneering the Fair Trade food and beverage in the U.S. concept in the 1980’s. Fair Trade is a voluntary set of business practices that help to raise and stabilize the incomes of disadvantaged small-scale farmers in countries from Peru to India.

Equal Exchange also works with small-scale organic sugar and banana farmers in Latin American and organic almond and cranberry growers in the U.S.

REGISTER NOW $15/members; $25/Non-members; $35 Members meeting and lunch (includes workshop)
Time: 7:45am-11:30am
Location: Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, ME Today Equal Exchange is a $35 million operation, one of America’s largest importers of organic coffee, and has 110 employees, spread over six offices and cafes from Boston to Seattle.  They’ve recently won multiple awards  for their environmentally and socially responsible business practices from the Financial Times newspaper, Fast Company magazine, and others and have been named one of  World’s Most Democratic Workplaces for four years in a row.