Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
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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,
In an effort to fight waste and make better example for environmental friendly steps, the city of Hamburg has announced an all-out ban in the state-run buildings on pod coffee (independent.co.uk). According to Jan Dube, spokesman of the Hamburg Department of the Environment and Energy, the capsules cannot be easily recycled because of the complexity of the packaging which consists
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
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
TURIN – The world’s seventh-biggest coffee roaster, Lavazza, has offered to buy French brand Carte Noire, the French leader in the coffee market, for around 800 million euros in a deal that will reach the company a leadership position in France and the second in Europe. In a offer subjected to approval by the European Commission and French authorities, Lavazza has
MILAN – When you say “espresso” you mean Italy, but how much has Italy been losing in terms of business over the recent years? On February 26th Mr Schultz announced a deal with Percassi, a retail developer, to open the Starbucks’ first location in Milan. The American firm was the first to get the café culture global as well as Nestlé,