Last Thursday of 04th and Friday of 05th February 2010, Paul Birch the Revolver Managing Director, was a guest lecturer at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) and Birmingham University (Business School). He was faced with the task of addressing a class of Media and Management students on the politics of running an independent record label and the reality of the Music Industry. At Birmingham Business School in front of Postgraduate MBA students; The lecture itself was about entrepreneurship, thus allowing Paul to describe his story on how he came about setting-up Revolver Records and Revolver World. » Read more: Paul Birch (Revolver MD) in Birmingham and Liverpool UniversitiesArchive for the ‘General’ category
Paul Birch (Revolver MD) in Birmingham and Liverpool Universities
February 9th, 2010Last Thursday of 04th and Friday of 05th February 2010, Paul Birch the Revolver Managing Director, was a guest lecturer at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) and Birmingham University (Business School). He was faced with the task of addressing a class of Media and Management students on the politics of running an independent record label and the reality of the Music Industry. At Birmingham Business School in front of Postgraduate MBA students; The lecture itself was about entrepreneurship, thus allowing Paul to describe his story on how he came about setting-up Revolver Records and Revolver World. » Read more: Paul Birch (Revolver MD) in Birmingham and Liverpool UniversitiesRevolver World Store - no VAT increase AND save 5% on all January purchases!
January 6th, 2010We're heading into 2010 with a bang - and a tasty saving for our customers. Although the VAT rate was reverted to 17.5% on January the 1st, we've held back the price increase on our products - our Organic Fairtrade 100% cotton T-shirts are still £6.99, and our hoodies (also 100% Organic Fairtrade cotton) are still just £19.99.
We also identified a problem with our store's registration process whereby a minority of customers may have been prevented from finishing the registration process for the store. To make up for this, we're offering a time-limited discount: 5% off on all purchases from the Revolver World store until midnight on February the 1st! » Read more: Revolver World Store - no VAT increase AND save 5% on all January purchases!
Why pay more for coffee or bananas?
November 9th, 2009Article author: Ebude Mbong, Revolver World, 4th of November 2009
In the UK we are currently paying twice as much as we could on imported goods such as coffee and bananas, and the underlying reason may be surprising to some.
Research on immigration and prices in the UK indicates that immigration reduces the average price growth of non-traded goods and services. Moreover, for goods and services produced with low wage, labour intensive technologies, immigration decreases the growth rate of prices. In particular, the paper shows that an increase in the immigrants-natives ratio of one percentage point would lead to a 0.2% decrease in prices of such services. This reflects the occupational distribution of recent immigrants, whereby they concentrate in low-wage occupations in labour intensive sectors. » Read more: Why pay more for coffee or bananas?
Midcounties Co-operative Links with Revolver...
November 9th, 2009The Midcounties Co-operative is launching Fairtrade T-shirts in a box to give a better deal to disadvantaged people in India after the idea came from its own workforce. The ethical community retailer is branching into clothing for the first time after several colleagues suggested it in an internal competition for innovative ideas.
The Co-operative is already the leading supermarket supplier of Fairtrade goods. It will sell the T-shirts in 20 food stores to begin with after linking up with supplier Revolver World, a not for profit company.
The T-shirts are made from organic cotton from farmers’ co-operatives in Southern India and all those involved in their production are guaranteed a fair price. The carton packaging has a distinctive design which tells the story behind the product. » Read more: Midcounties Co-operative Links with Revolver...
Fairtrade Panel Debate...
October 27th, 2009
Has Fairtrade been Hijacked by Multinationals?: Making the Fairtrade mark visible across the high street and massively benefiting farmers in developing countries, Or is it just a cunning marketing tool that threatens to weaken and compromise the Fair Trade movement? » Read more: Fairtrade Panel Debate...
Site bugs sorted!
September 9th, 2009Over the Bank Holiday weekend we had a few technical hitches with our web site. Nothing serious, no personal data lost or anything (just our main web designer had been coding with butter on his fingers again) and inadvertently broke some low-level functions causing pages to not display properly.
As a result, we decided to temporarily roll the site over to an older version on a backup server. The problems are sorted now and we will be automatically moving traffic back to our main site; if you are seeing this message then your DNS hasn't updated yet and you're still viewing the backup server. (Flush your DNS cache and close all browser windows if you still see this text when visiting revolverworld.com). When this message disappears you'll be back on the primary server again!
Thanks for bearing with, apologies for any inconvenience you've encountered as a result of the Bank Holiday gremlins.
Coffee and clothing with a conscience from a little company with big ideas!
