COFFEEBI MAGAZINE

What does your coffee brand stand for? What is your café, coffee shop or roasting business all about? If you can’t answer these questions with clarity and certainty within one or two minutes, you probably got some work to do! This new article series is about creating a strong brand for your coffee business and how to make it more visible online ...

The Union Centrale des Coopératives Agricole de l’Ouest, UCCAO, is planning to upgrade its coffee roasting plant. UCCAO, which is an agricultural cooperative in the Western region of Cameroon, has budgeted up to 400 million fcfa (about 650,000 USD) for this project, reports Business in Cameroon. For this to be possible, the cooperative recently signed an agreement with the government ...

Vietnam and India have uplifted back-to-back bans on some commodities that were placed earlier this month. The ban prevented Indian roasters from importing coffee beans from Vietnam. The ban by India was placed on March 7 and prevented coffee roasters from getting the raw material to meet up with local demand. In a statement on Friday, March 17, the Vietnamese ...

Eu'Vend & Coffeena - International Vending and Coffee Fair is already taking place for the eighth time and will once again present a clear profile in 2017. Nearly the entire vending industry is meeting in Cologne to demonstrate both its innovative strength and its extraordinary flexibility in supply needs at work, in everyday life and during leisure time. Once again ...

‘In Australia, coffee isn’t fuel for work – it’s a way of life’. Milkman (2016). While coffee may be a global commodity, and coffee shop cultures have emerged across the world, each country tends to have its own flavour of coffee shop culture, each with their own histories, influenced by the movement of people and commodities around the globe. A ...

Carlyle Group and TPG Capital are the two giant American private equity firms interested in making a deal for Java House; a deal estimated to be worth some $100 million, as reported by forbes.com. Java House is an East African coffee chain founded by two Americans; Kevin Ashley and John Wagner in 1999. According to businessdailyafrica.com from a single shop offering ...

In February 2017, Brazilian president Michel Temer suspended the plans of local coffee processors to import Robusta from Vietnam. Brazilian farmers have already been protesting against the idea. President Temer’s decision has temporarily put a stop to the dispute between the growers and processors of the country, reports Bloomberg.com. This attempt by the world’s biggest coffee grower to import green ...

Coffee is such an important part of so many of our lives, and many of us just have to have our morning fix in order to be able to function. Coffee is a global drink: its origins are varied, and the different preparations made with coffee all over the world are incredible. In partnership with Coffee in My Veins ...

Barista Drive System (BDS) from La Cimbali – Bluetooth communication This tool implemented by La Cimbali in some of their machines and grinders allows facilitating the non-experimented barista work. Using Bluetooth connection, the professional espresso machine and the grinder(s) are able to modify the grinder(s) parameters in order to keep the initial settings for the “perfect cup”, let say 25ml ...

According to interfax.ru, Starbucks is launching a new format of coffee service in Russia. Ten Starbucks On the Go points will appear in Otkritie bank departments in Moscow by the end of March. The format of self-service Starbucks stations exists in many countries around the globe. You can buy on-the-go coffee at gas stations, supermarkets, airports, etc. A local movie ...

Starbucks introduces its Nitro Cold Brew coffee to the UK stores. At last the loyal customers of Starbucks will have opportunity to enjoy their favorite drink! Though the beverage was being sold in major cities across the US, UK residents had no chance to buy it. Fortunately from now on the iced coffee can be found also in the UK. So let's ...

Russia is a country more frequently associated with a tea drinking culture which dates back hundreds of years. While the hot drinks market in Russia is still dominated by tea, the consumption of coffee is one the rise, with the consumption of fresh coffee being the main driver (ICO, 2015).  The coffee market was valued at around $2.5 billion in 2014 ...