Business trends from around the world: London, England

If we won the Lotto tomorrow, we'd hire a small camera team and travel the globe for a few months documenting all the innovative business trends from countries around the world just for you. But until that day happens, we're happy to rely on our globetrotting readers to send in their submissions of forward thinking business ideas.

Rain sent us this pic of an electric car recharge pole, which is directly opposite the Bentley and Rolls Royce dealerships in Berkley Square. Juice Point for a G-Wiz - this electric car thing is getting serious.

In South Africa, we're still busy getting excited about organic produce, while in the UK the 'fair trade*' thing is bigger than ever. [*Fair trade refers to the economic chain of the product being a fair and ethical one where everybody responsible for producing the product got a fair deal]

In the UK, you'll see a lot more of these fair trading eateries around – and even regular eateries will make a splash if they’ve got a ‘fair trade’ special – organic, free range chicken, with organic mayo, fair trade bananas & raisins and fair trade spices on fair trade, bio rice AND 10% of the proceeds go to some charity to benefit the farmers.

Not everybody is going to give a damn about fairly traded or organic products, but those that do in a larger market like Britain support these principles whenever they can and there's obviously a good entrepreneurial opportunity surrounding the buzz.

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Comments

[Daniel Hoffmann-Gill]

When I was over in Cape Town I noticed that organic was big, I went to that organic market event and saw how popular it all was, felt very bourgeois indeed, is that fair?