EcoPlum Spotlights Fair Trade Products, with Organic Coffee and Chocolate for Father's Day

Online, June 2, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Today EcoPlum, the green shopping rewards site, puts the spotlight on fair trade food products, emphasizing how important fair trade is to sustainable practices. Organic fair trade coffee and chocolate, both from Equal Exchange, are the first food products carried by EcoPlum in its online boutique.

Gia Machlin, CEO and Founder of EcoPlum, exclaims, "We have profound respect for what our friends at Equal Exchange are doing to support sustainable farming and humane treatment of farm workers. With Father's Day around the corner, their organic chocolate and coffee make a perfect gift combination for Dads."

Equal Exchange is a democratic worker-owned cooperative that builds long-term trade partnerships in many countries to produce fair trade food products that are both economically just and environmentally sound, creating mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers.

EcoPlum's online boutique sells nine different varieties of the organic fair trade chocolate by Equal Exchange, including milk chocolate with hazelnuts; dark chocolates with almonds, mint, caramel, orange, and espresso bean; and extra dark chocolates with 65%, 71% and 80% cacao. Each variety is sold in 12-bar packs.

Equal Exchange's fair trade, organic and kosher coffees are available at EcoPlum in a range of roasts, including a breakfast blend; decaffeinated; Ethiopian; French Roast; Love Buzz; and Mind, Body, Soul Coffee. Each of the blends is sold in packages containing 6 bags of coffee.

EcoPlum is committed to all aspects of sustainability, including fair trade. The company uses the Fair Trade Federation label as one of their third party certification criteria for selecting products. EcoPlum Fair Trade products from developing countries include jewelry from Bali and India, clothing from Guatemala, and now coffee and chocolate from El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Paraguay.

In addition to fair trade chocolate and coffee, the online shop at EcoPlum features eight other categories of eco friendly products: (1) Eco Friendly Clothing, (2) Ecochic Handbags, (3) Fair Trade and Handmade Jewelry, (4) Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products, (5) Sustainable Home and Housewares, (6) Green Kids, (7) Eco Friendly Journals and Notebooks, and (8) e-gift cards. Purchases of all products and e-gift cards at EcoPlum are eligible for EcoChipz rewards points.