Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
Ecom Agroindustrial Corp. is expanding its business in Europe with a new office in Italy, as reported by Bloomberg. The world’s second-largest coffee trader just opened their office in Genoa, according to Guillaume Zbinden, Ecom’s southern Europe coffee manager. Also, the trader hired Davide Rocca from Louis Dreyfus Co. to lead the team in Italy, which is the third-largest coffee
A poll by Reuters on 11 traders and analysts showed a price increase across the board with arabica and robusta both experiencing harvest related problems. Weather conditions have affected coffee producers in many countries. Fortune reports the El Niño have affected growers in Asia, especially Vietnam. In Uganda, droughts in the south and south western regions are expected to reduce production.
Droughts in Uganda may cut down expected coffee exports, a farmers’ group has declared. There is going to be an expected 5% reduction due to droughts, the industry regulator. This is due to extensive droughts that hit the southern and south-western regions of Uganda two months ago. This has strained crop yield. Expected export will drop to 3.6 million 60-kilogram
A subsidiary of Youngetivity International Inc., CLR Roasters, has announced that it has signed a three year agreement with Bread Partners Inc to provide CLR Roasters to 18 AuBonPain locations, Yahoo Finance reports. A marketer for nutritional and lifestyle products, Youngetivity International Inc. also produces gourmet coffees for retail and direct sales channels. According to this agreement, AuBonPain will commercialize
Oleg Yarovyj and his wife Inna came to Poland from Ukraine in November 2015. They both had worked in advertisement, but then decided they wanted something new, moved to a new country and opened Dobro&Dobro. The total square of the place is 6 m2 and it is the smallest café in Poland. Oleg says such coffee points are very popular
According to a recent CoffeeBI analysis on the coffee market in Germany, three companies are ranked at the top for coffee sales in the HoReCa segment: Tchibo (the leader) followed by Alois Dallmayr and JJ Darboven. These three companies together hold 40% of shares in the HoReCa. In Germany currently there are about 130 coffee roasters operating, these being located particularly in North
At the time of writing, we do not yet know what will happen to the European coffee economy after the British referendum to possibly leave the EU, but for sure we can describe what London means for the world of coffee and how the UK is related to the European coffee economy. In the coffee world, London represents the fixed point in
MOSCOW – Canadian coffee shop chain, Presse Café, is planning to come to the Russian market. Company’s top managers are looking for a master franchisee. At the moment, Canadians are evaluating the risks and making decisions about presence model which is most likely to be a partnership with master franchisee. According to the company’s blog, “CEO and his esteemed advisors are
Dubai is a place with huge sky scrapers, shopping malls, sparkling vehicles, and the most number of five star hotels than anywhere else in the world. But what about a good coffee? Coffee and café culture begun from the Middle East arguably though today Dubai’s coffee shops display a mix of Greek, French to Arabic café cultures with the liveliness of the
One of the main thoughts of a coffee machine manufacturer is the way to find a good distributor. The type of machine supplied and the minimum quantity of coffee requested depends on different factors, according to coffee roasters interviewed. This includes the size of the coffee shop and how much coffee it sells. The potential economic return of a customer