Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
Change Please, a London-based social enterprise, is making a great impact on environmental and social life. As reported by The Independent, Change Please cups are 100% recyclable and its suppliers support local communities: in Peru, they help victims of domestic abuse and crossing over to Tanzania, their supplier helps people injured by landmines. In the UK, beans are roasted by
A new business model is taking form in small, independent coffee shops: the Pay-What-You-Want model. As reported by The Guardian, Metro Cafe (Santa Monica, California) has adopted this model and some people only pay one dollar for a coffee, when others can pay less or more. Going even further, people could also not pay at all! So, why do some
On International Women’s Day, the International Coffee Organization is celebrating the role of women in the coffee industry. Indeed, in Brazil or Burundi, Cameroon or Colombia, India or Indonesia, women are playing an increasingly active role in the coffee value chain. Women represent 43% of the labour force in agriculture, playing important roles as farmers, labourers and entrepreneurs, according to
Arabica production is going to be shaken up by a record harvest in Honduras, which is expected to cause changes in commodity prices. Even if analysts expected 2018 to be an off-year for Honduras coffee production, the Dutch Bank, Rabobank, after a forecast of 6.5m 60kg bags, concerning Honduras output, has reconsidered its predictions and estimated a record high of
Reuters poll forecasts a Global coffee supply surplus in 2018-2019 with Brazil’s record coffee harvest: the country is expected to produce 60 million 60-kg coffee bags (44 million of Arabica and 16 million bags of Robusta). According to Conab, Brazil’s national supplies agency, in 2018 Brazilian coffee bag production will rise between 54,4 million and 58,51 million. In 2019-2020 Brazilian crop
Total production in the year 2017, according to an Ico report, has an estimated 158.93 million bags, with an increase of 0.8%, compared to last year. In this total, the share of Arabica is at 62.2% compared to 64.8% in 2016, with a drop of 3.3%. Robustas’ share is up from 35.2% in 2016 to 37.8% in 2017, with an
China is unsurprisingly one of the 70 coffee producing countries, since it has a millennia rooted in an unshakeable tea culture.
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
In Italy there are more than 800 thousand vending machines, with about three million dispensed coffees per year (+1,67% compared to the year 2015). According to Repubblica, coffee has reached 55,5% of the total number of vending machine-selected products. According to Confida, Italy is increasing the production and export of vending machines and it is becoming one of the most
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