Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
One of the largest coffee companies in the United States, North Carolina-based S&D Coffee & Tea has been acquired by the Canadian beverage company Cott Corporation. The purchase price was approximately $355 million, according to a Street Insider report. Jerry Fowden, Cott’s Chief Executive Officer said, “After closing the S&D acquisition, we will have a leading position in the coffee and tea foodservice industry
The biggest coffee exporter in Africa is likely to increase its output by 5 percent next season since trees planted in Uganda in the past few years started producing. The nation’s regulator said that weather improvement played a major part (Bloomberg.com). Also, Bloomberg reports that coffee production through September 2017 is estimated to climb to 4.2 million 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags, from 4 million bags projected for the season ending
A Spanish café owner charges clients according to how polite they are. The café, found in Costa Brava, Spain, has introduced an incentive scheme to encourage good manners by clients, reports The Telegraph. The café charges clients according to how polite they are in order to get rid of the rude ones. A client is charged five Euros (£4.20) for
Famous Canadian coffee chain is continuing its international expansion and this time it is coming to the United Kingdom. The plan is to launch stores in England, Scotland and Wales under franchise with a UK investor, though it is not clear yet how many places there will be (torontovka). It is the first deal in Europe for the brand that
The Glasgow-based roasting company has been sold to one of the largest volume coffee roasting and retailing companies in the world, Germany’s Tchibo, a family owned German food business (Daily Coffee News). Although the net-value of the deal is not made public, it is likely to be worth tens of millions of pounds (heraldscotland.com) who are making estimate looking at Govan-based
Hawaii is not only part of a fabulous archipelago in the Pacific, rich in flowers and sea life, but also rich in soil able to grow the coffee plants that produce one of the most expensive coffees in the world. The most famous Hawaiian coffee is “Kona”, cultivated on the slopes of Hualalai and Mauna Loa, in the North and South Kona Districts
The Berlin Coffee Festival, which is in its second edition will be hosting the VA Barista Challenge on September 2, 2016. This brings together the city’s top 16 baristas to showcase their skills. The festival runs from 2nd to 4th of September, with workshops, tours, tastings, the coffee market and others events throughout the whole city. The Irish barista, Colin Harmon,
Despite the coffee market decreases, the demand for organic coffee in Ukraine keeps growing. According to analytical reports, organic coffee market capacity in the first half of 2016 reached 13.83 tons which is 8.9% more than in the same period last year. 70% of the cups are consumes in households, 25% – in cafes, 5% – in offices. About half of
The Compak Golden Bean coffee roasters competition and conference will take place in North America this year. This networking and education event for roasters in Australia is being hosted for the second time in North America, at Castaway Portland, Oregon from 14th – 17th September 2016. The Compak Golden Bean aims at finding North America’s best coffee roasting business. More
Cameroon’s Minister of trade, Luc Magloire Atangana, has called on youths to be more involved in cocoa and coffee production. He made this call as he opened a two day forum by the Cocoa-Coffee Inter-professional Council (CCIC) aimed at revamping the cocoa and coffee sector. Dubbed the “New Generation”, the forum seeks to promote professional insertion of youths in the