Ubuntu Cola
Soft drink
Ubuntu Cola Type Soft drink Manufacturer Ubuntu Trading Company Ltd Distributor Ubuntu Trading Company Ltd Country of origin United Kingdom Introduced 2007[ 1] Discontinued 2019[ 1] Related products Coca-Cola , Virgin Cola
Ubuntu Cola was a soft drink certified by The Fairtrade Foundation . Made with Fairtrade sugar from Malawi and Zambia , Ubuntu Cola was the first UK cola to be Fairtrade certified.[ 2] It was available for sale in the United Kingdom , Hungary , Sweden , Norway , Denmark , Finland , Ireland , The Netherlands , Belgium , France , Greece , Italy , Switzerland , Poland , Luxembourg and online.[ 3] [ 4]
It was available in 330 ml cans , 500 ml PET plastic bottles , and 275 ml glass bottles .[ 4]
It was produced from 2007 to 2019.[ 1]
Name
The cola is named after the African philosophy of Ubuntu , which means humanity or fellow feeling; kindness ,[ 5] There is no connection between the cola and the Ubuntu open-source operating system (also named after the philosophy). Moreover, Ubuntu Cola is not an open-source cola .
Fairtrade
Ubuntu Cola's sugar was sourced from Fairtrade worker cooperatives in Kasinthula , Malawi and Kaleya, Zambia . Farmers who are members of the Fairtrade cooperative at Kasinthula received an income of $4 a day, which was six times the national average income .[ 6]
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