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Image: Nitiphol/stock.adobe.comStarbucks Australia has appointed Braeden Lord as its new CEO, effective 25 November 2024. Lord, currently CEO of Australian gelato brand Gelatissimo, has leadership experience from roles at major retail brands, including 7-Eleven. Lord has had a relationship with Starbucks since 2004 and has served on the board of directors since 2015. He succeeds Chris
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Coffee Grower Virginia Aguiar at Fazenda Semente in the Cerrado region inspecting the impact of the 2021 frost damage. Image: Maja Wallengren.Three years after the most damaging frost to hit Brazil in half a century, and amid other ongoing weather disasters, growers across the world’s largest producing country are still struggling to recover. Maja Wallengren reports for Global Coffee Report.  Brazilian coffee fields are famous for stretching hundreds of kilometres as far as the eye can
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Image: artrachen/stock.adobe.comFor the first time, the International Coffee Organization (ICO) has participated in the G7 Development Ministers’ Meeting held in Pescara, Italy, from 22 to 24 October 2024. Following the acknowledgement of coffee as a strategic value chain by the G7 at the Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting in Torino in April 2024 and in
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Image: FrankeFranke Coffee Systems will participate in its first GulfHost event in 2024, which will be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 5 to 7 November. GulfHost has been described as one of the most important events for the hospitality industry in the Middle East and North Africa area, showcasing the latest advancements in
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Image: IC Production/stock.adobe.comThe Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) has announced the locations for the upcoming Educator Summit 2024 Series across Asia. The Educator Summit is a global series of one-day events designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of coffee educators through focused sessions on coffee education, innovative teaching techniques, and advanced insights into the coffee value chain.
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Image: dbvirago/stock.adobe.comItalian coffee company illycaffè has launched blind tastings to select the winner of the Coffee Lover’s Choice, a special recognition awarded directly by consumers to one of the nine finalists of the Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award. From 24 to 26 October at the illy store in São Paulo, Brazil; on 29 October at the
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Image: Rabizo Anatolii/stock.adobe.comResearchers from the University of California, Davis, have designed an updated coffee brewing chart that they say better meets the needs of coffee professionals. Since 1957, baristas, roasters, and other coffee enthusiasts have relied on the Coffee Brewing Control Chart (BCC), which outlines sensory qualities of drip coffee based on the ratio of grounds to water,
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Faema President GTi. Image: Cimbali GroupItalian coffee equipment manufacturer Cimbali Group unveiled its Art of Wonder project, designed to elevate coffee offerings in hotels from a beverage service to a key part of the guest experience, at the Independent Hotel Show 2024. The event, held at Olympia London from 15 to 16 October, was dedicated to the luxury and boutique
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Image: artrachen/stock.adobe.comNot-for-profit organisation College Savings Club of America (CSCOA) has launched a program to address generational poverty in coffee producing regions. The program, Coffee with a Cause, has been designed to provide children in these regions with better access to quality educational resources and career training. In a statement, CSCOA said approximately one billion people around
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