Beverages
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Nescafé Partners Blend is the Fairtrade coffee within the Nescafé stable of brands. It is 100% Fairtrade arabica beans, giving a coffee smooth, balanced and rich that is sourced primarily from Ethiopia and El Salvador where projects are underway to help these communities achieve social, economic and environmental sustainability.
Posted: 11 August 2009 | 16:44
Another deliberately-challenging piece of promotional activity has come from Teapigs, the unconventional supplier of speciality tea to cafés, restaurants, and delis
Posted: 30 July 2009 | 10:17
The first imaginative move for Britain’s most important year in coffee is now being planned in the shape of the proposed Bath Coffee Festival, which is set for 15-16 May next year.
Posted: 29 July 2009 | 11:37
Richard Healey, founder of the independent tea importer Cotswold Teas, has died. He was an enthusiastic pioneer of the concept of tea-tastings in delis and cafes, and worked on a charmingly idiosyncratic basis – his business was often done on a narrow boat on the Midlands' canals.
Posted: 16 July 2009 | 12:37
British caterers may have completely under-estimated the public interest in flavoured coffee, according to research by flavour supplier Taylerson’s Malmesbury Syrups.
Posted: 14 July 2009 | 15:41
The hot issue of Wi-Fi internet access in cafes and hotels is not going to go away but it is now being argued that caterers can achieve a cost-effective way of providing what customers have come to expect as a standard facility in a café, restaurant or hotel.
Posted: 14 July 2009 | 15:37
Three big-name beverage companies were involved in major work with Rwandan producers at the end of June.
Posted: 08 July 2009 | 15:53
Style Café, the coffee equipment supplier, has today (6 July) combined with its major supplier Crem International AB to form Crem International UK Ltd.
Posted: 06 July 2009 | 16:00
Now is the time for the entire British beverage trade to think about how it is going to benefit from the 2010 World Barista Championship, the big contest in speciality coffee-making.
Posted: 06 July 2009 | 15:23
Caterers in London and the South-east have again missed out in the Beverage Service Association’s Bev-e awards, with none of the capital’s outlets judged worthy of nomination for the title of Best Beverage Experience of 2009.
Posted: 06 July 2009 | 15:16
Two of the beverage trade’s major coffee suppliers have opened up new websites for trade customers.
Posted: 30 June 2009 | 10:38
Two of the beverage trade’s most entertaining and idiosyncratic trainers and business consultants have devised a new concept in business training for those who want to make progress in the coffee trade – they are giving advice away.
Posted: 29 June 2009 | 14:57
The concept of the frappe and the smoothie should be adopted by all catering outlets, not just coffee shops, suggests wholesaler Beyond the Bean.
Posted: 29 June 2009 | 14:51
The newest version of the stir-in drinking chocolate is Stir Crazy, which comes from Sweet Temptations, and is very interestingly packaged: the spoon is already fixed Excalibur-like into the top of the chocolate.
Posted: 29 June 2009 | 14:27
Sodexo is to roll out its ethical hot beverage offer, Aspretto, globally after a successful trial at 20 sites. The contract caterer, which buys 8,000 tons of coffee a year and serves more than 1,000 cups, plans to introduce Aspretto to 500 sites by the end of this year. Aspretto beverages are accredited ...
Posted: 22 June 2009 | 12:42
One of the UK’s biggest contract caterers to business and industry has developed a beverage training scheme which will involve 1,500 staff going through a barista course presented by a former world champion barista - and among the trainees are the company’s two founding partners.
Posted: 11 June 2009 | 17:13
Britain’s performance in coffee-shops may be better than the Americans – we make as good coffee as they do, and we may possibly be more polite than they are (but not always). But we are probably not as tidy, according to Starbucks specialist 'Winter'..
Posted: 09 June 2009 | 11:48
McDonalds has denied reports in the national press that it is to open its McCafé chain in Britain.
Posted: 04 June 2009 | 12:12
Metropolitan Coffee of London has been acquired by Caffè Kimbo, the Italian company whose coffee it proposed to distribute here.
Posted: 04 June 2009 | 11:47
The quality of food and beverages served in railway station cafes must improve - and the Minister of State for Transport, Lord Adonis, has said that he is considering demanding improvement as part of the requirements of rail franchises.
Posted: 04 June 2009 | 11:40
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