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In my experience there are three unchanging facts about the coffee business:coffee is a high margin product; people want to buy coffee; and people pay more for coffee that they perceive to be of a better quality.
Posted: 12 August 2009 | 14:10
Cooper’s Coffee, one of the most distinctive suppliers in the beverage trade, has gained Investors In People status. The IIP standard, which confirms the positive ways in which staff are managed and involved in business activity, was awarded by the Yorkshire and Humberside Recognition Panel.
Posted: 12 August 2009 | 13:57
The tricky subject of automatic milk frothing for speciality coffee has taken a new turn, with an unprecedented claim from Rancilio that its latest steam wand produces milk good enough for the creation of latte art.
Posted: 12 August 2009 | 11:01
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
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
Research warns that the branded coffee chain market could be reaching the limits of its expansion. But analysts are divided on the issue. Kerstin Kühn and Ros Mullen report.
The collapse of Coffee Republic, which was forced to call in administrators earlier this month ...
Posted: 23 July 2009 | 07:00
A bad end to the week with news in this morning that the Ritz Carlton and Marriott hotels in Jakarta have been hit by two bomb blasts overnight killing at least nine people and injuring 48.
Posted: 17 July 2009 | 15:37
The collapse of Coffee Republic has hailed the start of a challenging time for the branded coffee chain market, a report has warned. The study, by market analysts Key Note, found that the branded coffee chain sector has come under intense competition as consumers decrease ...
Posted: 16 July 2009 | 14:08
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
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
Coffee has become an integral part of any meal, as John Campbell from the Vineyard at Stockcross explains: "It's not just the food but the full dining experience that matters - coffee is the closing statement of a customer's dining experience.
Posted: 30 June 2009 | 11:38
Joe on the rocks — or iced coffee — may be the summer’s hottest beverage based on evidence from the States.
Posted: 30 June 2009 | 11:11
Two of the beverage trade’s major coffee suppliers have opened up new websites for trade customers.
Posted: 30 June 2009 | 10:38
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
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
A Scottish hotel has devised its own blend of coffee to match a locally-produced malt whisky in what is thought to be the first time a coffee has been blended specifically to pair with a whisky.
Posted: 04 June 2009 | 11:34
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