The Government of India has been witnessing a steady rise in its coffee exports. From 1960 to 2021, India’s coffee export increased twelvefold in quantity, and the value of the coffee export has risen 760 times in the same time period. India’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) stated that coffee exports in the year 2021-22 have […]
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The roaster market is fiercely competitive, and although Probat is a great brand, the company must continue to innovate. Founded in 1868, Probat has grown to employ more than 1,000 people worldwide. To give new talent a chance and to keep finding new ways to innovate, the company has taken on nine new apprentices. This
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The Switzerland-based multinational food and beverage company Nestlé has recently opened a coffee processing plant in Veracruz, Mexico, which purportedly cost the company $340m. The Nescafé coffee factory will create 1,200 jobs and enable the company to process about 670,000 bags each year. This establishes Mexico as the company’s prominent global coffee processor, with the
NESTLÉ’S NEWEST COFFEE PLANT IN MEXICO BOOSTS BRAZIL’S ROBUSTA Read More »
As coffee prices skyrocket due to unpredictable weather conditions, shipping bottlenecks and also the war in Ukraine, some consumers have turned to robusta coffee as a cheaper substitute. This presents a great opportunity for Brazil, as much of its land can be used to grow robusta. Vietnam has traditionally been the No. 1 supplier of
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According to a report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), humans produce 400 million tonnes of plastic yearly. About 36% of which is used as plastic packaging for food and beverage products. More specifically, we throw away around 50 billion coffee cups per year. In spite of many cups claiming to be recyclable, a
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Global Coffee Platform (GCP) and Partnership for Forests (P4F) recently signed a joint agreement that will explore and promote agroforestry practises in the coffee regions of East Africa. The new partnership signed in June 2022 between P4F, a UK government-funded programme, and GCP aims to improve the income of farmers by producing coffee sustainably. The
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London; 12 July 2022 — olam food ingredients (ofi), one of the leading green coffee origin exporters in the world today announces that its coffee teams in 18 origins around the world have reached 105,000 farmers with sustainability support – over halfway towards a target of 200,000 by 2025. The support covers training, technical assistance,
OFI SUPPORTS COFFEE SUPPLY CHAIN ON RESILIENCY AMID MARKET VOLATILITY Read More »
The California-based single-serve coffee provider Steeped Coffee has recently raised $5 million through the crowdfunding platform Republic. More than 4,500 investors supported the crowdfunding campaign in less than 48 hours. That makes it “the 11th firm to raise the $5 million funding cap on Republic.” According to the company, the money will go toward reaching
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Mukesh Ambani, the second-richest person in India with a net worth of $93 billion, plans to introduce India to Pret A Manger on franchise terms, with the first one opening in Mumbai in the first quarter of 2023. Reliance Industries bought the toy retailer Hamleys in 2019 and the historic British country club Stoke Park
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Kajsa-Lisa Ljudén is named as the new Head of Sustainability at Swedish coffee group Löfbergs. Ljudén is currently working as a sustainability strategist at the family-run coffee roaster and has 10 years of expertise in the field. She replaces Eva Eriksson, who has worked at Löfbergs for 34 years. Ljudén began her career at Löfbergs
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The recently held World of Coffee Milan 2022 hosted The Best New Product (BNP) Competition and Display Awards where new products are judged by their quality and value to the speciality coffee and tea industry. Ten categories produced winners for the competition this year. The judging criteria are based on the product’s impact on IDEAS,
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Coffee trade sources told Reuters that commodity traders are shipping arabica beans from Europe-based ICE futures exchange warehouses to the USA. Unpredictable weather patterns, driving uncertainty in the markets, prompted this change when it caused a predicted shortfall to the market of 8.45m bags. Shipping arabica coffee from one major consuming region to another is
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