The organic soda brand has already raised a quarter of the money.
Auckland-based beverage company Karma Drinks, best known for its line of organic sodas, is raising $2 million through Snowball Effect to fund new product development.
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Organics and Fairtrade entrepreneur Chris Morrison on living within your means ‘Don’t get into business if you have a good idea but your heart is not in it.’
Chris Morrison, with wife Deborah Cairns and business partner Roger Harris, pioneered organic fizzy drinks in the 1980s with Phoenix Organics, which they sold to Charlie’s for $10 million in
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New Zealand s only zero carbon bananas
New Zealand s only zero carbon bananas
After an intensive programme of assessment and change working with T&G Fresh, Ekos and others, All Good now offers bananas (imported from Ecuador) that are certified Carbon Zero - as well as Fairtrade.
Chris and Matt Morrison and Simon Coley, launched All Good by importing New Zealand’s first Fairtrade and organic bananas back in 2010. Their challenge was convincing people that paying a dollar more for an ethical bunch of bananas was a better deal for them, the people who grew them and the planet. Eight years later, thanks to the millions of All Good Bananas purchased by Kiwi families, over 150 small banana farming families in El Guabo, Ecuador are being paid fairly and All Good have been able to contribute more than $2.2 million back to the El Guabo Association of Small Banana Farmers benefiting their community’s health and wellbeing, education, the sustainability of the land they farm and the sur
New Zealand s only carbon zero bananas
After an intensive programme of assessment and change working with T&G Fresh, Ekos and others, All Good now offers bananas (imported from Ecuador) that are certified Carbon Zero - as well as FairTrade.
Chris and Matt Morrison and Simon Coley, launched All Good by importing New Zealand’s first Fairtrade and organic bananas back in 2010. Their challenge was convincing people that paying a dollar more for an ethical bunch of bananas was a better deal for them, the people who grew them and the planet. Eight years later, thanks to the millions of All Good Bananas purchased by Kiwi families, over 150 small banana farming families in El Guabo, Ecuador are being paid fairly and All Good have been able to contribute more than $1,400,000 back to the El Guabo Association of Small Banana Farmers benefiting their community’s health and wellbeing, education, the sustainability of the land they farm and the surrounding rainforest.
An importer of the country s favourite fruit is calling on other primary sector importers to support ethical producers.
Nearly all bananas sold in New Zealand come from overseas plantations, some of which have come under fire for environmental harm and mistreatment of workers.
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Auckland-based All Good imports about 100 tonnes of the fruit each week from a fair trade certified plantation in Ecuador.
Co-founder Simon Coley said it was aiming to offset the carbon costs of growing and shipping the produce and hoped other companies would do the same. Bananas are prolific, they re often the first thing you see when you walk into a supermarket.