Showing posts with label General. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2012

WFTO

We are member of the World Fair Trade Organization, which represents 450 Fair Trade companies, associations, co-operatives, producers, importers, retailers, etc. ALL the members are 100% engaged in fair trade. The WFTO is the most important actor in fair trade; it is the voice and keeper of all its members all around the world.

WFTO operates in 75 countries throughout 5 world’s areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America. All these areas have their own specialized WFTO’s office: to give an access to political influence, prohibition, campaign, marketing and supervision. Only one global network represents all the fair trade chain, from producers to customers.
 
WFTO (French translation) : Organisation Internationale de Commerce Equitable
Nous sommes également membre de la WFTO, c’est une l’organisation représentante des 450 membres engagés à 100% dans le circuit du Commerce Equitable. Cette organisation est la voix et la gardienne des valeurs du Commerce Equitable.
La WFTO opère dans 75 pays, à travers 5 grandes régions du monde : Afrique, Asie, Europe, Amérique du sud et du nord. Chaque partie du monde a son représentant auprès de la WFTO internationale. Cela leur donne un accès plus simple à l’influence politique, la protection, la campagne et la surveillance. C’est le seul réseau de la chaîne équitable qui englobe tous les acteurs, du producteur jusqu’au consommateur.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Sales Training at TTC Headquarters

Beeing a member of the World Fair Trade Organization or International Fairtrade Association, means that we are, amongst others, comitted to continuing education and “on the job training” of our workforce. From 14th to 17th November we held our seminar for all our shop managers. Present were not only our own – TTC – sales crew, but also the shop managers from our partner organizations “Thabita Handicrafts” , “New Life Center”, “Akha Craft Center” and “WEAVE”.

We spent 3 days working very hard to cover all aspects of sucessfully managing a sales shop.
Mrs. Mitos and Mrs. Tonette from WEAVE Foundation, acted as moderators, while TTC’s own Mr. Harry acted as translator, to enshure that everybody understood everything that was said.



On the third day Mrs. Ramona Ramos director of World Fair Trade Organization Asia also appeared as a guest speaker, to further enhance our knowledge of fair trade practices.



All participants agreed that they learned a lot, and we plan to organize another similar event next year.





Our Hammocks at Mee Choke Plaza Chiang Mai

Mr. Barrie Greyson is something like the “Godfather” of our Sitting Hammck. Many years ago, starting from scratch, he, together with our own Peter Schmid developped the new improved design and weaving technique, that make our sitting hammock the best available anywhere.

Now he is back, and selling our hammocks at Mee Choke Plaza untill Sunday December 31, 2011.... But in his usual style, just selling hammocks is not enough for him, Mr. Barrie is also working on a completely new project, namely a whole lineup of new and superbly beautyfull hammock stands, for all those, who untill now had no place to hang their hammock. Here a picture of one of the prototypes. More are on their way……

Keep checking our blog and website for updates on this great line of new and exciting hammock furniture, more good news, pictures and prices to follow soon !

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

TTC Will Join the BIG+BIH Fair in October 2011

BIG-BIH Fair 2011, Organized by the Department of Export Promotion in Thailand, Bangkok International Gift Fair & Bangkok International House-ware Fair 2011 is coming up, once again, this October. As usual it will attract many Thai and overseas buyers. We, TTC, as one of the largest Fair Trade exporters in Thailand, will again be taking part in this major event.

It is our great pleasure to participate with our own booth, to show our newest product namely top-quality hammocks, as well as recommended items, best sellers and Christmas items to promote our range of Fair Trade handicrafts. 19th - 22nd October will be trade days, while on 23rd and 24 October the fair will be open to the general public.

Please, if you are in the region at that time, drop by at our colourfull booth, be it for serious business or just for a cup of coffee and a chat, we always like to hear from you. For more information on the BIG and BIH fair click on http://www.thaitradefair.com/2011/big_oct/

Hope to see you there:

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

New High Quality Hammock

We are delighted to announce that we have a new product line available, namely HAMMOCKS. Not just any hammocks, but one of the finest hammock products available on the market !

Worldwide, hammocks have become increasingly popular, and the market for this product is still rapidly expanding. We believe that for you our valued customer, hammocks will be an interesting addition to your present product lineup, and an opportunity to expand into previously untapped market opportunities.

We hope that you will give our new product a chance by displaying a few pieces of this unique hammock in your sales outlets, and test customer reaction.

Please have a look at our PDF catalogue posted on our website. Then, if you have any questions please contact us. We have everything in place to guide you through the initial stages, including a wide array of publicity files and a volunteer working with us, who has over 20 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing and marketing of hammocks.

Thai Tribal Crafts Team.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

TTC Website Relaunch

After months of research, planning and development, we, Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade Co.,Ltd (TTC) are very pleased to announce the relaunch of our website, http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/

Our new website delivers timely, well-organized information to a diverse global audience. It is easier to navigate, and allows greater interaction with our partners, customers and Fair Trade craft enthusiasts. On the site, users will be able to find current and informative content on products, latest releases of new products, producers information, products information as well as the social work performed by TTC . The website includes links to our social media sites such as FaceBook, Network Blog, YouTube and Twitter. Our FaceBook page is where you can see our products, activities and more. We believe this should bring more visibility of Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade among online users. We also hope to use our Network Blog as a powerful platform to share more detailed information about our activities with interested online users. Reviews from old products, new collections and products, artisans’ profile and stories of cooperative partners are updated frequently. Our YouTube Channel is a great way to let our customers and partners see what and how we are doing in each field. So far, we have created short videos of the main showroom, our Fair Trade Shops and some other events. We will add more videos soon on visitors corner, production process, artisans stories and life of Tribal People living in this northern Thailand.
Our Twitter page presents our services, activities and other related information through short notes of tweet and links back to our main site and blog.

In the next weeks and months, TTC will continue to improve its website. We invite you to come back often, and check out the latest developments. We hope you enjoy our new website and find it useful and informative. Your suggestions and ideas are most welcome - please contact us at info@ttcrafts.co.th.
To get automatic updates from TTC, please visit: http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas & New Year Holiday

Dear Friends,

The Thai Tribal Crafts team would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas 2010 and a very Happy New Year 2011.

Apple, Harry, Arporn, Pongsak, Nongnoot, Nantaporn
Sodsri, Nasi, Pan, Suparat.

Thank you for all your continued support that has employed many needy tribal artisans. We pray that you all will be blessed in all that you do in 2011.


The period from 24th December 2010 through 2nd January 2011 is the annual Thai Tribal Crafts (TTC) holidays and the shop and all of TTC commercial activities will be closed. All of TTC active customers as well as new customers are requested to have your business contact with us either before 23rd December 2010 or after 3rd January 2011. Thank you in anticipation for your kind cooperation.

The Thai Tribal Crafts (TTC) Team.





Thursday, September 9, 2010

Expanding our Mission

We are proud to announce new strategic partnerships that we hope will provide our customers with a greater choice of products. By utilizing the web-based tools we have developed throughout the past 5 years, we are not only able to serve our customers better, but we are now giving other like-minded groups in this region access to the world markets. These partnerships enhance the original vision of Thai Tribal Crafts in that we can now impact/assist a greater number of minority people groups (both within our own circle of contacts, and now through the network of other fair trade organizations.) Our Missions are as follows :
1) To be trading partner to enhance sales for every partner and producers
2) To strengthen our management effeciency and productivity
3) To promote Fair Trade in Thailand.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Fair Trade Shops in Chiang Mai will be closed for 2 days

2 of our Fair Trade shops in Chiang Mai will be closed on 30-31 July 2010 for our annual retreat program. All the staff will be leaving to the retreat place on 29th evening and do some preparation for the following days. SWOT analysis, Production Planning and Control, and the whole picture of Business Planning of the company will be mainly discussed during these days. 



Hope this Annual Retreat will bring some good idea and new understanding of the Company's business and provide better future service for the people we are dealing. Please keep us in your prayer for the success of our Annual retreat plan. Thank you!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Fair Trade producers and Thai Tribal Crafts activities

In order to provide you a better understanding of fair trade producers in northern Thailand and our activities, we try to make some useful short videos and present through our YouTube channel. And we would like to invite all of you to visit our videos when you have more time.

We will do our best to update more often to include our fair trade shops, products, production process, artisans and visitors. Please click here to see our latest videos and hope you will enjoy watching them too.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Handicrafts shop in Chiang Rai by Thai Tribal Crafts

In order to expend fair trade handicraft market in Thailand, we open new fair trade shop in Chiang Rai and hope this also will bring more fair trade awareness to the people living there. At the same time, tourist and visitors can enjoy shopping fair trade products. Our shop is just next to Chiang Rai clock tower and see below video for more detail.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Get free Handmade products CD catalog

We, Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade, just update our high quality handmade products catalog in CD version and it's free to deliver to all our customers around the world. Good news to all, especially for some of our buyers who have been asking and expecting to get this CD catalog. Please send us your full mailing address and we will send you out soonest. No matter where you are but just tell us how many copy you'll need. Then we will handle the rest.



Thanks in advance for having interest in our Fair Trade products. Your comments are always welcome! 

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Handicraft product catalogs are ready to download

With the request of many buyers from local and overseas, we updated our latest product catalogs based of different categories and it's free to download. We provide the download with PDF files and please feel free to contact us if you are interested to have a copy of CD version. Click on the image below and follow the link to download the PDF files.

Handmade products catalog

Monday, May 3, 2010

Bangkok BIG fair was not a good result for us

As usual, we, Thai Tribal crafts fair trade prepared well before joining Bangkok BIG Fair in last April 20, 2010 and things were ready to meet the importers and visitors during the fair. But unfortunately, there were very less people and low sale during the fair if we compare to last year. The sale was drop to 2/3 of total sales and couldn't even meet new buyers' contact. The hardship of country situation is really effected to the economy of most industry zone. Nevertheless, it's uncontrollable and we are expecting a better result in the coming event which will be properly in August/September 2010.

BIG Fair and Thai Tribal Crafts

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

New sample products for Ten Thousand Villages - Canada

We are glad to welcome Farah and Jeanette from Ten Thousand Villages - Canada here in our head office, Chiang Mai. It was a brief discussion and exchange fair trade movements yesterday noon. Today, Jeanette is heading to Chiang Rai with Harry to visit some artisans and new fair trade shop there. On the other hand, Farah is busy with collecting some products and discuss with our product development team to do some samples for their future order.

handicraft product development

Farah and TTC Product Development Team

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Grand opening ceremony of Fair Trade Shop Chiang Rai

The grand opening ceremony of Fair Trade Shop Chiang Rai, join program of Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade and Akha Crafts Center, was held on 5th April 2010 at 6 pm local time. Though about 40 quests were expected to attend the ceremony previously, about 100 respected quests from NGOs, Missionaries, Volunteers and local people were welcomed during the real ceremony.

The program was started with welcome speech by the founder of Akha Crafts Center followed by opening prayer, ribbon-cutting, introducing to some staff and great dinner and finished around 8 pm local time.

Fair Trade shop in Chiang Rai
Handicraft shop in Chiang Rai
Chiang Rai handicrafts, handmdae

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Fair Trade Thailand: Meet us in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Mae Sod

If you are interested to purchase fair trade handmade products while you are staying in Thailand, we would like to welcome you to visit us in our Fair Trade shops in Chiang Mai head office, Chiang Rai and Mae Sod branches. We are WFTO (World Fair Trade Organization) certified member and have been working in this handicrafts industry with 58 villages for more than 30 years. All the profits from the market go back directly to our artisans. To contact, see the top right side bar of this blog OR visit our official web site. 

Fair Trade, handicrafts, handmade in Thailand

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Fair Trade Shop in Chiang Rai will be soon

To bring more Fair Trade awareness in Thailand and in order to extend our Fair Trade shops, we are thinking of having new Fair Trade shop in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. This will be a join program of Akha Craft in Chiang Rai and Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade, though it's not finalized yet.

By opening new shop there, we hope our local sales will increase and providing more job opportunities to Akha hill tribe and all other groups who have been joining with us. At the same time, Tourist, visitors and local people have more chances to purchase Fair Trade products in Chiang Rai.

Fair Trade shop, product, handicraft in Chiang Rai

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Run for Relief: 6th Annual Event in Chiang Mai

"Run for Relief" 6th Annual event will be held on Feb 20, 2010 at Huey Tung Tao, Chiang Mai from 7 am. The event will include a 100 meter dash for small children and a 5k run/walk including the popular Flip Flop division.

Cost: 200 Baht to Run and 200 Baht for T-shirt. For more information, please contact to 0895578996 (Josh) or 053 380 870 (Bia).