History
The Fair Deal Trading Partnership was founded by Dr. Martin Kunz
and James Lloyd in 2004 with the sole purpose of importing Fairtrade
certified sports
balls into the UK. Our product base has since spread to include a full
range of Fairtrade certified sports balls, ETHLETIC sneakers and flip-flops
as
well as a whole range of rubber products from balloons to rubber bands.
Founder partner Martin Kunz established the world’s first supply chain of fairly traded and FSC certified rubber which now forms the core of our business and is used in nearly all of our products.
In 2008 Fair Deal Trading became a fully owned subsidiary of Community Foods.
About Us
James has a background in Development and manages the UK market. Martin Kunz is a sourcing supremo and is constantly developing new supply chains (such as FSC rubber, organic cotton) and sourcing new products that always have thoroughly ethical credentials.
James Lloyd has worked in a plurality of fields before establishing the Fair Deal Trading Partnership in 2004 with Martin Kunz. He has worked as a Caribbean Chef, managed a Sushi business and has acted as an election monitor in Kosovo. In 1998 he helped organise and took part in an aid convey bringing medical supplies to female refuges in Bosnia. In the summer of 2000 he graduated from The University of Sussex and helped establish a plastic recycling project in India.
Martin Kunz has over 30 years of fair trade experience. In 1997/98 he developed the first Fair Trade criteria for sports balls as well as the first supply chain for Fairtrade certified sports balls. Before that he was the first chairman of the board of the directors of the biggest Alternative Trade Organization in the world (GEPA in Germany) and he was the co-founder and first general secretary of TransFair International (TFI) and later the Fair Trade Labeling Organization (FLO).
In the 1980s Martin’s PhD was a pioneering evaluation of world shops in Germany. Martin has also been co-chairman since the inception of OekoVision, the strictest ethical investment fund trading on the Continent. In some Fairtrade circles he is know as ‘The Prof’ due to his exhaustive knowledge and understanding of Fair trade and ethical standards. His latest magnum opus was the development of the first supply chain of fairly traded and FSC certified rubber. At the time of writing this supply chain had already raised Euros 45000 in Fair Trade premiums.