Starbucks Corp.(to buy and sell above market price coffee)(Brief Article)

Food Institute Report, The, April, 2000

* Starbucks Corp, Seattle, said it would buy more coffee beans from importers paying above-market prices to small farmers and would sell them in its more than 2,000 United States coffee shops and on its Web site. Global Exchange, a group that has urged Starbucks to purchase fair trade coffee and had planned protests at Starbucks coffee shops in 30 cities during the week of Apr.

10th, commended the action as a step toward ending exploitation of coffee growers. "This is a gigantic first step toward establishing fair trade coffee as an economically viable alternative," said Jason Mark, a Global Exchange spokesman...New York Times (Apr. 11)