China continues to be one of the largest growing markets for the coffee shop industry. But what is the secret of its new coffee business model?
China And Its ‘New Retail’ Strategy For Coffee
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China, One Of The Biggest Coffee Consumers In The World
China is best known as a tea-drinking country, but, in the last few years, it has become one of the largest coffee consumers in the world, when speaking of the emerging countries. In particular, coffee consumption has grown among young Chinese professionals. According to coffee market analyses reported by www.chinabgao, the growth rate of coffee consumption in China is around
Blockchain: How Power Relations in the Coffee Chain are Changing
The coffee bean is one of the world’s most valuable agricultural products from the tropics: it’s worth over $100 billion worldwide. The coffee chain is characterised by a huge difference between production and consumption: on one side we have 25 million small farmers producing 80% of the world’s total coffee supply, for less than $2 a day, on the other side we have the “Big Four” coffee roasting companies – Kraft, P&G, Sara Lee and Nestle – buying about 50% of the coffee produced worldwide. This make the relation between buyers and producers in the coffee chain [Sign in to continue]
Can I See You From Space-Or Even From Across The Road?
Driving into London last week we spotted what is a common sight. The Golden Arches of McDonald’s were shining brightly over a building site. The A40 at Acton it seems has a new fast food restaurant. The very first thing they did was to put up the sign. You see McDonald’s understand the importance of their sign, which is why
Café Culture in Coventry, UK
Coventry is a welcoming city, a changing city, and a city full of culture – it has submitted a bid to be the UK City of Culture 2021. When you think of café culture, Coventry probably isn’t the first city in the UK you think of, but like most cities across the UK, there is a thriving and growing café
Lavazza buys Kicking Horse, leader in the organic and fair-trade sector
Italian coffee giant Lavazza has bought 80% of Canada’s Kicking Horse Coffee company, a Canadian leader in the organic and fair-trade sector, Ansa reported. Elana Rosenfeld, founder and CEO, will stay on as a CEO with 20% of shares. The acquisition, 215-million Canadian dollars, would seek to valorise Kicking Horse’s brand equity as it has done with other recent acquisitions,
Kona Coffee, Hawaii. The Champagne of Coffee
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
Tchibo Confirms Its Leadership in the German HoReCa Segment
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
Tesco to sell Harris and Hoole to Caffe Nero
Tesco has announced it plans to sell coffee chain Harris and Hoole to Caffe Nero, as announced today by the Sky News. The announcement came as Tesco reported a second successive quarter of sales growth for the first time in more than five years. The supermarket group launched Harris & Hoole in 2012 with Nick, Andrew and Laura Tolley, the Australian
Costa Coffee Walks Over Competitors In The UK
Costa, a coffee chain established in 1971, is the largest one in the whole of United Kingdom as a matter of fact it’s the second largest coffee chain in the whole world second after the Starbucks. This shop is estimated to have served 169 million cups of coffee in its 1,992 outlets in 2015. [Sign in to continue]