AUSTIN, TX – Briggo Inc., the company that empowers people to create their perfect cup of coffee, today unveiled its new intelligent Coffee Haus at The University of Texas in Austin.
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UK – Costa hires Carol Welch as first brand and innovation director
LONDON – Coffee brand Costa has placed Associated British Foods marketer Carol Welch into the newly-created role of brand and innovation director, as the coffee house ramps up its plans to expand globally.
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JAMAICA – True Blue Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Jamaica’s new micro-roasted premium coffee brand
BLUE MOUNTAINS – Micro-breweries of beer have become so popular in the last half decade in the US, and now micro-roasting of coffee has become a new trend in the market for passionate coffee drinkers.
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BRAZIL – ABCC starts campaign to increase exports to the Middle East
MILAN – The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) has revealed plans to increase coffee exports to the Middle East.Â
UGANDA – UCDA sees prices recovering later this year
MILAN – The Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) projects that prices will rise again towards the end of the year as the western nations recover from the Eurozone crisis.
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CARIBBEAN REGION – Dominica’s big plans for coffee
ROSEAU, Commonwealth of Dominica – Haiti and Jamaica may be the best-known Caribbean coffee production brands, but another country is looking to become a player: Dominica.
VIETNAM –Coffee replanting slow due to nematode infections
MILAN – Speaking on the sidelines af a recent seminar on coffee replanting in the Central Highlands province, Nguyen Viet Vinh, general secretary of the Vietnam Coffee-Cocoa Association (Vicofa), said that Vietnam currently had some 140,000 hectares of coffee which needed to be replanted.
COLOMBIA – FNC’s Extension Service impresses international observers
BOGOTA – Miguel Gómez, Katie Ricketts and Benjamin Mueller –members of the Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS) project– ranked the FNC’s Extension Service (ES) among the world’s finest.
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HEALTH – Drinking coffee may reduce risk of suicide in adults
Drinking several cups of coffee daily appears to reduce the risk of suicide in men and women by about 50%, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. The study was published online July 2, 2013, in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.
ITALY – Hausbrandt finds new ways to taste success: Trieste coffee maker ‘continually fed by passion’
by Josephine McKenna
TRIESTE (Italy) – At the end of the 19th century the streets of Trieste were filled with elegant cafes which attracted leading authors and intellectuals of the day and a well-heeled clientele with an eye for the latest trend (in the left picture, Martino Zanetti Hausbrandt’s owner).
