http://www.levelground.com
Vancouver Island/Coast Economic Region

Level Ground Trading began with the vision of improving the lives of small scale farmers in developing countries through fair trade. Today, the company provides consumers with premium coffee, dried tropical fruit and cane sugar directly from 2,000 farming families in five different countries – Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Tanzania and Ethiopia.  

President Hugo Ciro travels to producer regions to meet with farmers, co-operatives, and exporters, ensuring that farmers receive a fair and sustainable share of the total price the company pays for green beans – 40 per cent more than conventional coffee importers.

Level Ground also works to make a difference at home. The company uses 13 streams of recycling at its plant, where less than one grocery bag of garbage is created per week. Its customers can return their empty coffee packages, which are collected and shipped to a waste-to-energy facility in Burnaby. Level Ground Trading also sponsors over 100 community events each year.