Coffee Retail

Being big helps if you’re a coffee chain dealing with the impact of pandemic lockdowns. Costa should consider themselves fortunate therefore, that they sold to Coca Cola in January 2019 for £3.9bn, shortly before COVID struck, which would have strained the balance sheet of Whitbread, the previous owners. As Coca Cola released their annual results […]

To make use of unused space, design company TD atelier installed a box-like structure that opens up into a tiny coffee shop on the rooftop of a five-story hotel in Kyoto, Japan.  As the coffee shop — called ‘Miharashi Coffee’ where ‘Miharashi’ translates to “good view’ — is on the tallest building in its vicinity,

American drive-through coffee retailer, Scooter’s Coffee, has over 400 stores in 23 states and continues to expand rapidly, with an ambitious plan that could see it almost match Tim Hortons for number of locations as early as next year. Don Eckles and his wife, Linda, opened the first Scooter’s store in 1998, in Bellevue, NE

A local market regulator in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, fined Starbucks 1.36 million yuan ($210,000) for adjusting ingredient shelf life and using expired ingredients in two of its outlets there. A public announcement was recorded by the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System. In the information released, we can see that

The Black Rifle Coffee Company has seen their sales explode over the last year, which set them up for their successful stock market IPO earlier this month. I have to admit to a negative predisposition toward the Black Rifle Coffee Company before I knew anything about them. I’m not a gun supporter, so the association

Tokyo is one of the most bustling cities in not only Japan but the entire world. In fact, if you do a quick search online on which city is the busiest in the world, you’d see “Tokyo, Japan” in big bold letters. This city has rapidly evolved to become the business hub it is today

As reported by the Times of India, Indian coffee company CLL Products India Ltd (Continental Coffee) will invest USD 20 million in doubling the capacity of its Vietnam coffee manufacturing facility.  At present, the Vietnamese facility produces between 13,000 and 14,000 metric tonnes per annum (mpta) of spray-dried coffee – it is expected to double

Last Wednesday, US coffee chain Starbucks announced that employees of the company aren’t required to be vaccinated against Covid-19. This announcement riled up many, causing the company to face severe criticism and calls for boycott. The subject of mandatory vaccinations for work is a controversial one in the U.S. with strong feelings on both sides

US coffee giant Starbucks partners with Chinese shopping platform Meituan to expand its delivery and online services in China. Meituan is the biggest food delivery platform in China, as well as one of the most popular “super apps”, referring to apps that offer several services in one. Even though there’s already the regular Starbucks app