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The union struggle at Starbucks continues. Unions have formed across the US, and the company has retaliated by closing some stores, citing various reasons, including health and safety, although these same stores coincidentally appear to be the ones supporting unionisation. Recently, the company has filed charges with the National Labour Relations Board against union officials, […]

Starbucks has grown rapidly in India in the 10 years since it opened its first shop in Mumbai. The number of shops has risen to over 300. According to Tata Starbucks, the operator of the shops in India, the country is ready for the first Starbucks Reserve shop. The first Starbucks Reserve in the country

Kenya is forecasting a 15% overall increase in exports this year compared to 2021, of which coffee is an important element. Wilfred Marube, managing director of the state-owned Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency (KEPROBA), said the increase was mainly due to sales to new African markets as a result of the African Continental Free

Only 15% of the coffee supplied to Nestlé Philippines is from domestic production; the company imports the remaining 85%. Nestlé recently announced plans to change this imbalance by increasing the proportion of coffee beans it sources locally. The realistic target is to increase it to 20% by 2025. Our factories prefer local beans because they’re

In the 2021/22 season, which ended on 30 September, Vietnam exported over 1.73 million tonnes of coffee, the highest volume since the 2017/18 season. Vietnam ships its coffee to more than 80 territories and countries, making it the world’s second-largest coffee exporter with a market share of 14.2 per cent. During the last eight months,

Brazil’s latest plight, the reduction of the coffee harvest, is the result of earlier difficult weather conditions such as drought and frost. The coffee trees are finally showing the impact of the bad weather. These effects could continue for a while, threatening Brazilian coffee producers in addition to uncertain weather patterns. Major extremes between temperature

Noru, one of the strongest storms in the last two decades, hit the Central Highlands, Vietnam’s largest coffee-growing region, but did not cause critical damage. The provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum received the most rain but without significant damage to the crop. Bartalks recently reported that Noru would sweep over Vietnam and threaten

Africa’s largest coffee exporter, Uganda, recently announced that production of the 2022-23 crop could reach record levels due to improved rainfall and planting of seedlings over the past 8 years. Uganda mainly grows the Robusta variety, whose trees are more productive than Arabica’s, which is commonly perceived in the market as being better quality (not

Typhoon Noru made landfall in Vietnam on Wednesday, forcing more than 800,000 people to evacuate, and bringing heavy rains to the country’s coffee belt in the Central Highlands. Noru threatens to delay the harvest in the world’s second-biggest coffee producer and the biggest Robusta supplier for one to two weeks, according to Tran Thi Lan

The Brazilian government has admitted that its statistics on coffee yields have been problematic in recent years and need to be improved to reflect reality better. The estimates were smaller than the number of exports plus the sum of local consumption. Conab, Brazil’s food supply and statistics agency, has had problems monitoring Brazil’s coffee harvest,

Five years after hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, the country is well on its way to restoring coffee production to pre-hurricane level. On 17 September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Katrina devastated Puerto Rico, killing thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands. The hurricanes also decimated Puerto Rican coffee production, which fell from 2,000 tonnes