Welcome to the www.eti-ten.org website, launched a decade after the creation of the Ethical Trading Initiative to celebrate what ethical trade has achieved so far, and to raise awareness of the need for continued collective action to improve the lives of workers worldwide as we enter our next decade.

This eti-ten website is one of several initiatives to mark ETI's tenth anniversary year.

We will be holding a major conference to debate the future of ethical trade on 23 October 2008 and have produced an easy-to-access six minute film about the first ten years of ethical trade.

We are also encouraging consumers to ask probing questions of retailers and 'be an ethical pest'. This new initiative is spearheaded by Tara Scott and Stacey Dooley from the BBC series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts.

For companies, we will shortly be launching two new films that explain the business case for ethical trade to retailers and suppliers respectively. We have updated and improved our training courses, which are aimed at building essential skills and knowledge in ethical trade within companies, trade unions and NGOs. The ETI workbook - a practical manual for companies - is already available.

The Ethical Trading Initiative (www.ethicaltrade.org) is a ground-breaking alliance of companies, trade unions, charities and campaigning organisations that work together to improve working conditions in global supply chains. Since our inception in 1998, we have disseminated a raft of best practice tools and guidance on ethical trade, galvanised industry-wide alliances that have brought about widespread change for workers, and have demonstrated that our members' activities are bringing material benefits to the workers in their supply chains. Last year, member companies reported over 50,000 separate improvements to workers' conditions, collectively touching the lives of over 6 million workers.