Equal Exchange West

Based in Portland, Equal Exchange West is a fair-trade food business supplying products grown by small-scale farmers and farmer cooperatives. Its offerings include organic coffee in whole-bean and ground formats, chocolate bars and baking chips, tea, drinking cocoa, olive oil, nuts, and dried fruit. Many products are sold by the case, and the business describes its supply model as an alternative to the corporate food supply chain. It also identifies as a worker-owned democratic workplace. Customers can shop across its food categories, with products such as coffee blends, chocolate minis, English breakfast tea, cashews, and cocoa mix appearing in its range. The business engages customers as citizen-consumers in support of a different food system.