Who owns Equal Exchange coffee?
Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 by Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal, and Michael Rozyne. Before founding Equal Exchange, Dickinson, Rosenthal, and Rozyne were managers at a food cooperative in New England, and were actively involved in American food industry reform. Equal Exchange is a for-profit, Fairtrade, worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, bananas, avocados, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.Headquartered in West Bridgewater, Mass. Equal Exchange is considered the pioneer and U. S. Fair Trade. Its mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound and to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers.Meet Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative founded in 1986 by Jonathan Rosenthal, Michael Rozyne, and Rink Dickinson. The trio met while working at a New England food co-op, where they discovered a shared vision: transforming the relationship between consumers and food producers.