The company’s main business activities include:
The business is managed by a team with in depth experience in the field of ethical trading, e-commerce and fulfilment. The two company founders are Chief Innovation Officer Vic Morgan and Chief Executive Andy Redfern. Andy is a former executive Director of Traidcraft, the UK's leading fair trade organisation, a non-Executive Director of Cafedirectand was previously Editor-in-Chief of Personal Computing (PC) Magazine UK. Vic is an experienced entrepreneur in the field of fair trade and e-commerce having previously founded New York-based oneNest (now part of Novica.com), after graduating with an MBA from Harvard and bucking the trend to become a social entrepreneur. The company’s Finance Director is Tim Morgan, who is also a non-Executive Director of Cafédirect and was previously Finance Director at Traidcraft where led the development of their award-winning social accounting system.
Ethicalsuperstore.com is a member of the Social Enterprise Coalition. The business is privately owned by its founders, a small group of external investors, and all staff through an employee stock ownership scheme. External investors include Northstar Equity Investors, an investment fund based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne focused on helping early stage technology businesses in the Northeast, and Rathbone Greenbank, one of the UK’s leading investors in social businesses. We also receive assistance in financing our purchases of fair trade products from Shared Interest Society, the UK’s specialist financial institution serving the market for fair trade.