Union Hand-Roasted Coffee, the UK’s leading craft coffee roaster, has launched a new single-origin Cold Brew Concentrate, created to make it significantly easier for cafes, catering, pubs and bars to make iced drinks from iced lattes to nitro cold brew. The concentrated coffee base, which comes from beans sourced from Esquipulas Cooperative in Guatemala is […]
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The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) announced the 2019 SCA Sustainability Award winners. Union Hand-Roasted Coffee for their project at Yayu BioSphere Reserve, Agricafe / Fincas Los Rodriguez, and Esperanza Dionisio Castillo will be recognized on the Re:co Symposium stage the 11-12 April 2019. The awards for Project and Business Model, created in 2004, recognize outstanding
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UK researchers have developed a new green technology to generate electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks, which they hope will benefit Ghanian farming communities with little or no access to grid power. The project, led by the University of Nottingham, aims to spawn an entirely new biofuel industry which would create new local jobs for
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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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Coffee made from coffee beans may soon be a thing of the past. First, brews made from adaptogenic mushrooms hit the scene. Then came nutrient-loaded cup of joe made from broccoli. And the latest option hacks the coffee bean to make waves on a molecular level. Despite the fact that it’s made without coffee beans, Atomo Coffee‘s “molecular coffee”
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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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Nestlé has signed an agreement granting the company rights to market Starbucks’ consumer and foodservice products globally. The transaction provides Nestlé with a platform for continued growth in North America with leadership positions in the premium roast and ground and portioned coffee businesses. It also allows Nestlé to capture growth opportunities in the rest of
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Starbucks is committing US$10 million in partnership with Closed Loop Partners and the Center for the Circular Economy to establish a consortium to launch the ‘NextGen Cup Challenge.’ “No one is satisfied with the incremental industry progress made to date, it’s just not moving fast enough. So today, we are declaring an initiative for sustainability
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