As the main national annual event and one the largest in the world, the Brazil International Coffee Week has an extensive program in content, plus the largest trade fair in the industry. The show will take place from November 20th to 22nd, 2019 at Expominas, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The highlight is the numerous […]
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The Roasters Report UK 2019, World Coffee Portal’s first dedicated analysis of UK roasters, reveals a rapidly developing market. The report said demand was being driven by strong wholesale demand from independent cafés, the rise of locally-roasted coffee and growing consumer appetite for café roastery experiences but did not mention the potentially adverse effects of
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Coffee-growing countries from around the world could agree a common position on measures to address the coffee price crisis at a 10-11 July 2019 meeting in Campinas, Brazil. Representatives of producer organisations in Brazil and Colombia are driving what could become an international alliance of countries who are seeking urgent action on coffee prices. Representatives
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Italian premium coffee company lllycaffè (Illy) has released a range of rum infused iced coffee cocktails, in collaboration with SelvaRey Rum, a North American boutique spirits company founded by singer Bruno Mars. The ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages feature SelvaRey Rum’s acclaimed, award-winning chocolate-infused rum and come in the flavors Spiked Iced Coffee and Spiked Iced Caramel.
Four years after an IPO intended to give it the financial clout it needed to grow, family-controlled Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group is expanding, entering new markets, and launching products in new channels Family-owned Italian coffee companies have been faced with some hard choices in the last few years. As the global coffee-roasting industry consolidates, companies
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The National Coffee Association offered a first look at its 2019 National Coffee Data Trends report at the 2019 NCA Annual Convention in Atlanta. The NCDT report has tracked the consumer behaviour and perceptions shaping coffee trends in the US for almost 70 years. The 2019 report found that more Americans are drinking speciality coffee
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Melanie Leeson has joined green coffee sourcing company and exporter, Caravela Coffee, as their Europe Sales Director. She will lead operations out of their Shoreditch (London) office, lab, and tasting room. She replaces Joanna Lawson, who established Caravela’s London operations in 2016. Since 2002, Caravela has built its reputation on sourcing quality Colombian coffees through
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Competition law is undermining UK business efforts to end poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries, according to research from the Fairtrade Foundation. Fierce competition in the UK retail market and a perceived fear of breaking competition law is preventing businesses from fixing low wages and incomes in their supply chains. Yet the people
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Chocolate manufacturing company Goodio is sourcing funds up to $10 million to invest in the integration of blockchain technology in its supply chain. Launched in 2015, the Finnish company is aiming to make the cocoa industry healthier, sustainable, and transparent. Goodio’s COO Jussi Salonen revealed that there are two companies who are interested in investing
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The path to becoming more eco-friendly as a state continues, the Washington legislature will introduce a bill this session to ban plastic straws. Seattle was one of the first cities to dump the straws last year. The bill would go into effect July 1, 2020, if it passes the legislature. While, the ban would not take
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