LONDON – Michael Jary has been appointed the new Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Fairtrade Foundation.
Michael is a business strategy consultant who brings a wealth of strategic and commercial expertise in the retail and consumer industries.
ICO – Minas Gerais hosts the International Coffee Week
BELO HORIZONTE – It is considered the most important agroindustry event in 2013, and will gather representatives from more than 70 Member countries of the ICO on an extensive programming.
Minas Gerais is the largest coffee producer state in Brazil, and will host the International Coffee Week between 9th and 13th, September in Belo Horizonte, at Expominas Convention Center.
BARISTA OF THE YEAR 2013 – Costa Coffee selects the best coffee maker in the Middle East and Asia
DUBAI – The most skilled and passionate Costa Coffee maker in the Middle East and Asia region was announced at the Regional final of the Barista of the Year 2013 competition, which took place yesterday at the Le Royal Meridien Hotel in Dubai.
ITALY – Sace, Sistema Leader and Rimini Fiera join forces for the internationalization of coffee enterprises, artisan gelato and confectionary
RIMINI (Italy) – Italian insurance-finance group SACE, Sistema Leader, a company specialized in financial advisory focused on the gelato and coffee trades,
VIETNAM – French newsmagazine praises “the new King of Coffee”
HANOI— Vietnam is the new “King of Coffee”, according to a recent article published by the weekly French magazine Le Point and titled “Le Viet Nam, nouveau roi du cafe”.
US – National Coffee Association Hires Lobbyists To Fight ‘Carcinogens In Coffee’ Legislation In California
NCA to enhance the National Coffee Association’s vigorous government affairs efforts to nullify ill effects of California’s Proposition 65 on US coffee commerce.
NO JOKE – Walmart Coffee Tastes As Good As Starbucks
No Joke. In a new taste test, Walmart’s medium-roast Great Value 100% Colombia coffee was rated on par with the equivalent costing more than double the price bearing the Starbucks label.
ICE TO ESKIMOS – Starbucks to sell coffee to Colombians and plans to open 50 cafes in Colombia, where it will sell (this is the idea) exclusively Colombian coffee
NEW YORK – Starbucks Coffee Company, which has exported coffee beans from Colombia for more than four decades, plans to open its first café in the Andean country in 2014 and serve only locally-grown coffee.
ICO – Coffee exports drop 6.8% in July
LONDON – According to ICO figures, world coffee exports amounted to 9.05 million bags in July, compared with 9.69 million in July 2012 down 6.8% on year.
THE BOOK – Coffee makers, featuring 2000 antique coffee makers photographed in the homes of the most important collectors in the world. Preface by Giuseppe Lavazza
MILAN – Authors and collectors of antique coffee machines, Enrico Maltoni and Mauro Carli, spent two years travelling around the world in order to write a true encyclopaedia of the coffee maker.
