coffee business strategies

The Specialty Coffee Association of America has dramatically stepped up efforts in the past few months to communicate events and activities within the organization, presumably from the recent addition of dedicated marketing manager Tara Shenson. Being a member for some 8 or 9 years now, I can tell you that there have often been great [...]

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أندروا هيتزيل من مؤسسة Cafemakers يحضر مؤتمر الخليج الافتتاحي للقهوة. DUBAI, UAE–(Marketwire – September 27, 2009) – Andrew Hetzel of coffee industry consulting firm Cafemakers has joined a distinguished group of experts who will present at the Specialty Coffee and Tea Convention this November in Dubai. “I am very enthusiastic about the future of specialty [...]

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Bangalore (September 24, 2009) – Kaapi Royale Coffee will host coffee professionals on a guided 5-day origin tour to India’s exotic Chikmagalur coffee growing region in Karnataka this January. Availability is limited to 10 attendees, including 3 seats reserved for winners of the 2009 Kaapi Royale Challenge cup tasting competition held at the Specialty Coffee [...]

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I was delighted to see Friday and this morning that both the Pacific Business News and Honolulu Star Bulletin have picked up on my late-Thursday press for the upcoming SCAE tour that I organized for Hawaii. PBN even went so far as to make it one of their top business stories for Friday. From Thursday: [...]

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This morning I was forwarded a link from Campos Coffee in Sydney with their review of Hula Daddy Coffee’s Kona Sweet, which has been selected as their featured coffee of the month. I remember when the guys from Campos were in town and was invited to attend, but had some kind of schedule conflict and [...]

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