Inspiration for Your Holiday Sale
We collected some of our favorite creative, yet simple display ideas for holiday sales during Christmas, Hanukkah and beyond!
A sparkling, lighted display draws in shoppers, using wooden crates to add height and extra shelving. You can bring greenery and pine cones indoors for a gorgeous, natural and economical display. Burlap coffee bags make an eye-catching table cloth or backdrop!
Order free promotional materials like posters, pamphlets, stickers and comic books for your table. We recommend promoting your sale early to drum up excitement. Putting up a poster with your event details and getting the word out using our e-newsletter template is a great way to do this. We’ve also created a shareable photo collection so you can download images to make your own promo materials.
Showcase products in ready-to-gift ways
Pre-assemble gift baskets full of fairly traded goodies for people who want gifts to grab and go. Offer a variety of price points to fit many budgets.
Move over, wine! A bottle of organic, fairly traded Palestinian Olive Oil makes a unique & meaningful gift. Tea-towels or silk scarves from the thrift store make beautiful and reusable gift wrap. Order free gift tags that can be attached to the bottles to give the gift recipients more information about this very special olive oil!
Or, package milk or dark chocolate minis in small festive pouches and sell them for a set price. Recommend them to shoppers as the perfect “little something” for a teacher, mail-person, or neighbor.
Sell coordinating Fair Trade products
Serving trays, coffee mugs, and cup cozies from the Fair Trade organization Ten Thousand Villages complement coffee, tea and cocoa and make perfect add-ons at your sale table. If you want to include more crafts at your sale, Ten Thousand Villages has an extensive selection of garlands, ornaments and nativities that can be purchased at discounted prices for groups who want to offer them for sale at events.
Attract customers and increase sales
Break up a chocolate bar into bite-sized pieces and offer samples of flavors people may not have tried, like our wildly popular Panama Extra Dark 80%, Coconut Milk Chocolate (it’s vegan!) or Milk Chocolate with Caramel Crunch and Sea Salt. They won’t be able to resist picking up a few bars for themselves as well as for gifts!
Brew up a carafe of coffee or hot cocoa for samples. You could even charge a little more and sell make-your-own cocoas as a fundraiser.
Our best seller, Organic Breakfast Blend, is the perfect coffee to feature at your sale. Your group can still make a small profit by charging $8 a bag while offering a high-quality, fairly traded coffee. And buying Equal Exchange coffee helps small-scale farmers stay on their land, supports your own organization and members get delicious coffee at a great price. What shopper could pass that up?
DIY gift ideas
Fill tin-tie or paper bags with whole bean coffee from bulk 5lb bags and decorate with stickers.
Tie chocolate bars with ribbon and sell them as a bundle with a price incentive like 4 for $20.
Try your hand at creating a bunch of “tea-trees” with green and peppermint tea bags for fun gifts that also double as display!
Or pre-assemble the ingredients needed to make Fair Trade brownies or cookies in mason jars and include the recipe.
Love to bake?
Offer treats made with Equal Exchange products for sale.
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Share your displays with us!
Tag @equalexchange on Facebook or Instagram when you post your photos.