Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
Whitbread intends to demerge Costa Coffee from its other activities and look at the impact Costa could have in China. As stated by the Financial Times, in fact, it seems that the company is ready to make a tea-drinking country into a great coffee consumer. In the 1990s, Costa started to import the coffee culture into Britain and it reached
The world of hospitality – this is the claim by Intergastra 2018 , one of the most important European trade fairs for gastronomy, hotels and dedicated hosts. In 2016, the comprehensive exhibition programme across more than 100,000 square metres of exhibition space brought together just under 100,000 visitors and around 1,300 exhibitors from Germany and abroad. And the success story
Start-ups are booming and developing more visionary tools, products and services then ever before. Newcome, which will be staged for the second time as part of the European trade fair Intergastra 2018, will offer start-ups a platform to present their innovations for the hotel and restaurant industry. Covering a special area of more than 1,000 square metres, Newcome will provide
The meeting point for the hotel and restaurant industries will become even more important. The hall area of more than 115,000 square metres, on which Intergastra is expanding through the construction of the new exhibition hall 10 (Paul Horn Hall), is almost fully booked up with the result that there are already waiting lists in some theme halls. “Intergastra 2018
People management is vital to staff retention Happily, the choleric chef turning tantrums in the kitchen and never communicating with his minions at less than 100 decibels, is one of a disappearing race. Yet the widely held belief still exists that the key to becoming a “proper” chef is learning the hard way and taking lots of knocks. Participants of
An article on BBC News outlined ‘four solutions to the disposable coffee cup problem’. It re-highlights the scale of the disposable coffee cup problem in the UK – 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups thrown away each year, with only a very small percentage being recycled. The article highlights how many businesses have engaged in collection and recycling schemes, but also lists four
The topic of digitalisation is more topical than ever – this applies to gastronomy and the hotel sector as well as other industries. But what exactly is digitalisation in the hospitality sector, and how can digital solutions be implemented so that not only the manager but also the employees are behind it? A topic that experts and journalists discussed at
All you’ve got to do is change! With apologies to James Taylor, in his timeless favourite, ‘You’ve got a Friend’. Each season moves along with the complete certainty that nature brings. You know yourself that in the summer you will eat and drink differently than in the winter. Over the last few weeks, the big coffee chains have all launched
The gastronomy and hotel sector keeps reinventing itself with original ideas and concepts. A top-class, thirteen-person specialist jury has selected the winners of the Intergastra Innovation Prize from all the promising innovations entered in the categories Quality Assurance and Economy, Design and Function, IT Solutions and Kitchen Technology. Evaluation was based on criteria such as degree of innovation, practical significance,
INTERGASTRA and coffee consulate invite you to the 4th “Stuttgart Coffee Summit” next year. The get-together for the international coffee industry in 2018 also offers small and micro roasters the opportunity to showcase themselves professionally to the HoReCa industry. The focus again is on the entire value-added chain of coffee, from bean to cup and beyond. The roaster and machine