Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
A ban on a range of vegetables, fruit, and flowers from Uganda was imposed by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance. The ban is aimed to fight contraband goods that might be shipped to Russia from Europe via African countries despite the sanctions. Earlier this year the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance banned reexport of certain
The world sixth largest coffee producer, India, depends on its Southern State of Karnataka for around 70% of the country’s total coffee yield. But the severe weather conditions, with high temperatures and low rainfalls hitting the coffee plants at the important flowering stages, are to impact the fruit formation badly hence affecting the overall expected yield; reported Reuters India. The state-run
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 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
In April 2016 Starbucks opened its first coffee shop in Johannesburg, South Africa and thus added the 71st country to its retail chain. It is not the first time the famous coffeehouse chain is trying to conquer Sub Saharan Africa. In 2010, during the FIFA World Cup, Starbucks made a deal with Emperica marketing agency and a hotel chain Tsogo
Cofix, an Israeli coffee shop, bar and supermarket chain, has found partners to start expansion into the Russian market. Satesh Melwany, CEO at Melson Group (developer and food producer), and Mikhail and Grigoriy Pecherskiy, managing partners at ADG Group (developer) have closed the deal that will bring 1000 new coffee shops to Russia. Cumulative share of the partners in Russia
French consortium Groupe SEB has recently announced the signature of an agreement with KKR. According to this agreement, Groupe SEB acquires WMF, a German group producing coffee machines and cookware. Thus the company has affiliated another old and famous brand to its list of iconic names (together with Schaerer, Silit, Kaiser and HEPP, among other). According to the press release
Cherie LLC, a Georgian coffee production company, is planning to deliver its coffee to Russian and Kazakhstan markets. According to Cherie CEO Irakli Lomtatidze, the company has been considering expansion to new markets for some time now. At the moment, the meetings with distributors are held. The plan is to send the first shipments to Russia and Kazakhstan in September.
The Scandinavian countries are among the world’s highest coffee consumers. The fact clearly points towards the region’s fine taste towards coffee. Instant coffee although considered undesirable, low grade form of coffee, hasn’t totally lost its sale in the Scandinavian countries and surrounding region like Belgium and Netherlands. According to the Washington Post the instant coffee sales has been almost consistently
NOVOSIBIRSK – Launched on April the 16th, a new mobile cafe is serving coffee to the citizens of Novosibirsk. It is a restored Polish Nysa–521 (1970) and it offers unusual coffee (http://news.ngs.ru/more/2441753/). The coffee shop offers a choice of up to 7 types of coffee, and one of its features is that coffee is made in cezve. The other specific feature