With Christmas just gone and Valentine’s Day and Easter approaching, demand for chocolate is high. Despite the ongoing global struggle with the Omicron variant of coronavirus, consumer demand for chocolate remains strong. According to research…

The Dutch confectionery company, Tony’s Chocolonely, is causing a stir again, shortly after their badly received advent calendar stunt that had a missing chocolate. This time the ethically motivated chocolate makers have teamed up with…

The Linea Mini makes just as good coffee as it ever did. The problem La Marzocco has, is that the world has moved on and there’s so many more great options for the price. For…

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Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has successfully concluded the Uganda Coffee Agronomy Training (UCAT) project. The four-year program came to an end in October 2021 and reached over 22,000 smallholder families across four districts in Western Uganda (Kakumiro, Kyenjojo, Kibaale…

As labour shortages drive up wages across the hospitality and retail sectors, Pret a Manger has raised pay for the second time in four months. Across its 8,500 locations, more than 6,900 of its 8,500…

The future of quality coffee is not a foregone conclusion and few know that better than World Coffee Research. A non-profit organisation, they have set themselves the audacious but laudable goal of supporting the development…

In the US last week, the company responded to a class-action lawsuit by offering to settle for $677,000. The lawsuit was brought by an employee of the company who claimed the popular chain required employees…