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Image: VolcafeGreen coffee merchant Volcafe has appointed Raphaelle Peinado as its Sustainability Director effective 1 September 2024. As part of the role, Peinado will lead and implement the expansion of Volcafe’s strategic global sustainability initiatives to further develop and maintain the company’s green partnerships. She will also work in conjunction with Volcafe’s parent company, ED&F Man
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Image: Costa CoffeeGlobal coffee chain Costa Coffee has announced its investment to send 130 of its team members to the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris. The announcement comes as part of the brand’s partnership with the Olympic Games and aims to give its team members the opportunity to work at the sporting event, bringing Costa Coffee to
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Image: l_martinez / Adobe StockItalian coffee company illycaffè has published its half-year results for 2024. According the company, its combined revenues amounted to a total of €289.1 million. In comparison to the first half of 2023, this was up by 3.8 per cent at constant exchange rates. Following the results, this figure was driven by major markets and distribution
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Image: Freer/ Adobe Stock.Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee has announced the opening of a new outlet in Beijing, officially bringing its total number of stores to 20,000. The company launched the new store following the opening of its 10,000th outlet last year, and the inauguration of its 570,000 square foot roasting facility in Jiangsu in April 2024. “Luckin
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Image: World Coffee ResearchWorld Coffee Research on the lack of seed traceability, the importance of building infrastructure, and the need to secure a formal coffee seed sector where solutions are tailored to each local market. Climate change is one obstacle, harvest migration is another, but the disparity of a formal coffee seed sector is an invisible problem that’s
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Image: NTU Singapore.Dr Jarkko Salojärvi of Nanyang Technological University details the family history of Arabica, highlighting the knowledge to establish breeding, the development of cultivars, and disease resistance. Cast your mind back half a million years ago. It was a time when Neanderthals traversed Asia and Europe, megafauna roamed the Earth during the Pleistocene era, and according
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Image: IMA. IMA Petroncini describes how its 15 year partnership with Caffé Diemme and how it has helped the brand achieve high-quality coffee using its systems. Giannandrea Dubbini, President of Italian roaster Caffè Diemme, is the grandson of Founder Romeo Dubbini, and the third generation to oversee the expanding company. “Caffè Diemme was founded in Padua in
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Image: Prime Creative MediaMelbourne International Coffee Expo is open for business. The popular Southern Hemisphere event is embarking on a new era promising a strong brand identity, more diverse audience, and greater value than ever before. There are few coffee expos in the world that blend a professional trade event with educational value for coffee-loving consumers, but that’s
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Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider. Image: Nestlé.Multinational coffee company Nestlé has published its half-year results for 2024 in its latest report. According to the release, the company’s organic growth has reached 2.1 per cent. This included pricing of 2.0 per cent and real internal growth of 0.1 per cent, an increase from -0.8 per cent last year. “Positive real internal growth
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