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Imagine the wildest dreams that you had as a child chocolates sweets well I'm inside that dream now

there's a chocolate fountain over there and exploding caramels. The irony though, no kids are allowed. That's because here

at the Cologne Confectionary Fair, the world's sweet manufacturers get together to showcase

their goods for the multinationals to taste, to eat and to buy.

It's very fitting to be surrounded by so many sweets and treats because it's also someone's birthday. The Fair Trade Foundation

is celebrating 20 years and they've achieved a lot in those two decades.

When we started people laughed at us.

They said this will only ever be a niche for yogurt weaving vicars.

You'll never make this work.

The public don't care. They'll never pay more. Well we're laughing at those cynics now

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