coffee business strategies

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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I receive a lot of comments here at my CoffeeStrategies blog… most genuine (not counting the automated spam) and the occasional employment request or other solicitation. No, I am not hiring you or buying your product. Every once in a while, however, I receive something that just sits out-of-place and requires further examination. Such a [...]

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This has been bothering me for a couple of days… On Wednesday, I received an email message from the Pacific Business News about their latest awards dinner for Women Who Mean Business. Apparently these guys will give anyone an award, they even gave one to me back in 2007! Ultimately, the only result of this [...]

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A new study commissioned by the Kona Coffee Farmers Association touts the benefits of legislating that all products sold with the label Kona Coffee within the State of Hawaii should consist of 100% coffee grown in Kona. While I am in agreement with the concept of truth in labeling and believe that the origin and [...]

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A 2009 retrospective in February 2010, you ask? Well, I’ve been hard at work for the last 6 weeks or so (which you will see in the 2010 wrap-up), so it’s going to have to do. What, you want a refund? This is my second annual year in review, started in 2008 and inspired by [...]

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