Market analyses and reports on the coffee and coffee machine markets
Congolese coffee beans are attracting the Specialty Coffee sector’s attention as reported by thelocalafricanews.com. As the specialty coffee sector sees growth, exporters, retailers and roasters keep looking for new grounds in hope to discover ever better tasting coffee beans. But discovering newer grounds also mean taking risks of entering world regions that have been politically unstable for several years now and
Cascara, meaning ‘skin’ or ‘husk’ in Spanish, is the outer peel of the coffee cherry (berry). In biological terms, we can say that cascara contains exocarp and mesocarp. The mesocarp contains a lot of pectins and small sugars while exocarp contains mostly polyphenols. It was for a long time a by-product of coffee production. Today, cascara has an added value as food and food ingredient.
The classic use of this by-product is infusion in hot water, but you can now find it as flour. It can then be used in flour blends to add colour, fibres and caffeine.
So, cascara is becoming popular and we expect in the next few years a big increase of its consumption. Why? Simply because Starbucks is launching a cascara latte. They will make cascara a trendy product.
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California-based coffee company, Peet’s Coffee, plans to keep up with better service provision. The company has decided to invest $58million into an East Coast manufacturing facility. Peet’s is planning to build a 175,000-square-foot roastery in Suffolk, Virginia , as reported by Fortune. The company wants to make sure their coffee, when sold to the customers, is fresher than ever. With
The complexity of an espresso blend is something very important for the roaster. It is part of his “savoir faire” and his own knowledge. By coffee roasters, the recipe is the identity of the brand and therefore all recipes are well protected against hard copy. As recipes can’t be protected by IP, a way to do it is to complexify
Coffee farmers and traders in Uganda are happy as coffee prices have gone up this season as compared to same period last year (reports All Africa). Ugandan Coffee Farmers Smile The price of fresh coffee cherries has gone up to Shs1,200 per kilo compared to Shs800 last year, meanwhile a kilo of dried robusta coffee is Shs2,400 compared to Shs2,000
It is indisputable that coffee machine represents an essential equipment of every work environment. Coffee break provides a welcome pause during meetings and in general plays a crucial role in social life of a workplace. Coffee keeps people alert and makes them more productive. That is another reason why every employer should consider having a machine that serves coffee beverages.
Some very old coffee beans that have been stockpiled, when the market plunged in 2013, are coming out now. The old stored beans reportedly belong to Arabica variety. Since Arabica is valued higher than the Robusta coffee beans due to its quality, the drop in prices since the stock is so old stored, have attracted large number of buyers who
Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $10 million grant to the Relationship Coffee Institute. This announcement came at its US-Africa Business Forum that took place on September 21, 2016. According to the report by Daily Coffee News, the grant will help in the improvement of the lives of women coffee farmers in the DR Congo and Rwanda. This will be done through
Dunkin’ Donuts has decided to add a new cold brew on its menu ( boston.com, businessinsider and fortune ). The chain is partnering with Coca-Cola for its first attempt to launch a new product in ready-to-drink coffee market in the US. The official launch is expected early in 2017. Manufactured, distributed and sold by Coca-Cola, Dunkin’ Donuts’ iced coffee will be made available
A Minneapolis-based coffee franchise, Dunn Brothers Coffee has partnered with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) to help them raise funds for its humanitarian relief program. In a press release published by PR Newswire, in its Changemakers Collection, Dunn Brothers Coffee will offer to its customers Ugandan coffee bean. $10,000 of proceeds from its Changemakers Collection coffee beans will be contributed