coffee business strategies

Organizers in Dubai are gearing up for the 2nd annual Middle East Coffee & Tea Conference, which is also the site of the official UAE Barista Championship. Having attended and presented at last year’s inaugural conference, I can say firsthand that the event is an important educational opportunity and market linkage for the fledgling specialty [...]

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Bangalore (August 6, 2010) – Kaapi Royale Coffee announces the January 2011 return of our annual origin tour to India’s exotic coffee growing regions for coffee professionals, this year adding Coorg to an expanded 5-day itinerary. The event begins on Tuesday, January 11th in Bangalore with a welcome reception at the Bangalore Club, a grand [...]

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My mail today included a humility-free plea from Coffee Fest, the industry’s self-proclaimed “top retail show,” instructing me and other members of the Specialty Coffee Association of America to express concern with the SCAA board’s consideration to relocate its annual convention to Seattle for 6 out of 8 years annually beginning in 2014. “While Coffee [...]

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See the 2010 World Barista Championship semi-finals and finals today, live from London! Friday, June 25th (All times BST) 8:30am – 12:00pm Semi-Finals Round (Semi-Finalists 1-12) Soren Stiller Markussen, DENMARK Raul Rodas, GUATEMALA Fabrizio Sencion, MEXICO Kyle Straw, CANADA Ana Lucia Hawit, HONDURAS Michael Phillips, USA Scottie Callaghan, AUSTRALIA Yara Castanho, BRAZIL Thomas Schweiger, GERMANY [...]

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KAMUELA, HI–(Marketwire – June 1, 2010) – Cafemakers today announced that company founder Andrew Hetzel will lead a workshop at the 2010 Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) conference in London. The session, “Developing an Origin Brand,” will be held at Olympia exhibition hall on Thursday, June 24 at 1:30 P.M. In the clinic designed [...]

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