Honest Tea

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Founded in 1998, Bethesda, MD based company Honest Tea is the nation's top-selling organic bottled tea company specializing in lower calorie beverages that are ‘just a tad’ sweet. Honest Tea's product lines include: Honest Tea ready-to-drink bottled teas, and Honest Ade and Honest Kids organic thirst quenchers. All varieties are USDA-certified organic and all tea varieties are Fair Trade Certified™. In addition to receiving an “A+” and being named one of The Better World Shopping Guide's "Twenty Best Companies on the Planet based on overall social and environmental record," Honest Tea was also listed as one of PlanetGreen.com's "Top 7 Green Corporations of 2010," and was ranked by The Huffington Post as one of the leading "8 Revolutionary Socially Responsible Companies." Honest Tea was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in March 2011 and operates as an independent business unit.

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“We’ve been a longtime investor in the Fair Trade seal, and the values it represents,” said Honest Tea co-founder and TeaEO Seth Goldman. “We endorse Fair Trade USA’s Fair Trade for All vision, with its commitment to expand the reach and impact of Fair Trade by broadening the kinds of growers who can be certified , while maintaining the rigorous standards for working conditions and community development premiums.”

Seth Goldman

“The ‘Be an Honest Kid’ program is a fun way to get kids and their parents engaged in our tree planting efforts. We’re also delighted to launch updated Honest Kids packaging with such a strong environmental message.”

Seth Goldman

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HONEST TEA® COMMITS TO PARTNERSHIP WITH FAIR TRADE USA TO EXPAND IMPACT FOR TEA PICKERS AND FARM WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD

Thu, Jun 07, 2012 18:03 CET

Leading Bottled Tea Company Supports Fair Trade USA’s New “Fair Trade for All” Vision(Bethesda, Md. – June 6, 2012) – Honest Tea®, the first company to market Fair Trade Certified™ bottled tea announced today that it has chosen to work with Fair Trade USA as its certification partner, committing to the organization’s recently announced vision to increase impact and include more farmers, farm workers and tea pickers around the world. “We’ve been a longtime investor in the Fair Trade seal, and the values it represents,”

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HONEST TEA® COMMITS TO PARTNERSHIP WITH FAIR TRADE USA TO EXPAND IMPACT FOR TEA PICKERS AND FARM WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD

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