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Max Havelaar-Stiftung

Company type	Non-profit organization
Founded	1992; 34 years ago (1992)
Headquarters	Zurich,Switzerland
Key people	Kathrin Amacker, Foundation Board president
Website	www.fairtrademaxhavelaar.ch

TheMax Havelaar Foundation is a non-profit certification and public education organization promotingFairtrade products in Switzerland to improve the livelihood of developing world farmers and workers. The Max Havelaar Foundation is theSwiss member ofFLO International, which unites 23Fairtrade producer and labelling initiatives acrossEurope,Asia,Latin America,North America,Africa,Australia andNew Zealand. Several of these corresponding organizations in other European countries also use the Max Havelaar name. The Swiss Max Havelaar organization was founded in 1992 by the Third World aid organisations Brot für alle,Caritas, Fastenopfer, HEKS,Helvetas and Swissaid.

The Foundation was named afterMax Havelaar, which is both the title and the main character of a Dutch 19th-century novel (written byMultatuli) critical of Dutch colonialism in theDutch East Indies.

The mission of the Max Havelaar Foundation is twofold:

1. Ensure that products from producers and workers in disadvantaged regions of the south get access to the Swiss market at fair trade conditions.
2. Certify and control that the products carrying the Max Havelaar label are produced and traded according to the international trade standards validated byFLO International.

The followingFairtrade certified products are currently available in Switzerland:

• cotton (since 2005)
• pineapples (2003)
• bananas (1997)
• flowers (2001, market share 5%)
• honey (1993; 10%)
• coffee (1992; 5%)
• cacao/chocolate (1994; 1%)
• mango (2003)
• orange juice (1999; 7%)
• rice (2002; 3%)
• tea (1995; 5%)
• sugar (1994; 1%)

By volume and value, bananas are the most popular Fairtrade product in the country: in 2005, Max Havelaar/Fairtrade bananas boasted a market share of 56 percent.

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