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Costa Coffee declared a decline in its sales of 1.5%, relating to the third quarter of 2017, as reported by the Guardian. However it is still one of the most important coffee chains in the UK. The Company was created in 1971 by two Italian immigrants who, in 1995, sold the business to Whitbread. Costa Coffee can now claim more
The Coffee Board of India, the Indian organization which promotes coffee production in the country, is managing to expand and revive Indian Coffee Houses and private players. According to Business Standard, the Indian organization aims to increase coffee consumption by opening 75 full-service coffee houses. The Board is ready to achieve this goal by partnering with private sector operators, in
Dunkin’ Donuts is proposing a new type of coffee which tastes like Girl Scout cookies. The coffee flavours are inspired by three Girl Scout cookies: Thin Mints, Coconut, and Caramel and Peanut Butter. As reported by The Independent, these coffee flavours are served with cookies in frozen and hot coffee, machitos, lattes or iced coffee. Eleonora PaceCoffee drinker, content manager,
In the UK, 35 Starbucks branches will be the first coffee shops to trial a fee of 5p on disposable cups, a so-called “latte levy”, which aims to reduce the waste of coffee cups, as reported by the The Guardian: Consumers will have the opportunity to drink coffee using a ceramic cup offered by the store or to use their own
Rwanda’s government hopes to create a coffee culture in their country, convincing people to drink and consume what they produce. Rwandan people are not used to drinking coffee: infact coffee seems to be very expensive to buy (2,000 Rwandan francs, £1,70), and people usually drink tea instead, as reported by the Guardian. Pie Ntwari, a speaker for the National Agricultural
Arabica production is going to be shaken up by a record harvest in Honduras, which is expected to cause changes in commodity prices. Even if analysts expected 2018 to be an off-year for Honduras coffee production, the Dutch Bank, Rabobank, after a forecast of 6.5m 60kg bags, concerning Honduras output, has reconsidered its predictions and estimated a record high of
Reuters poll forecasts a Global coffee supply surplus in 2018-2019 with Brazil’s record coffee harvest: the country is expected to produce 60 million 60-kg coffee bags (44 million of Arabica and 16 million bags of Robusta). According to Conab, Brazil’s national supplies agency, in 2018 Brazilian coffee bag production will rise between 54,4 million and 58,51 million. In 2019-2020 Brazilian crop
According to a report published by the British parliamentary committee, in the UK at least 2,5 billion disposable coffee cups are thrown away per year, and just 0,25% can be recycled. The Environmental Audit Committee, appointed by the House of Commons, suggests a fee to around 10 percent on every cup of coffee sold (named “Latte levy”) for every disposable cup
In Italy there are more than 800 thousand vending machines, with about three million dispensed coffees per year (+1,67% compared to the year 2015). According to Repubblica, coffee has reached 55,5% of the total number of vending machine-selected products. According to Confida, Italy is increasing the production and export of vending machines and it is becoming one of the most
The UK is about to face a potential increase in food prices, including coffee and cacao: it is due to the global weather phenomenon called La Niña, that is going to probably cause issues to the food market in the UK in 2018, according to The Guardian. Britain, in fact, is expected to be heavy affected by this weather phenomenon