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Coffee companies want you to buy their products, obviously. To do this, they need you to feel good about what you’re buying, and ideally to feel good about the company itself. Sure they could just stick their coffee on the grocery store shelf alongside all the other brands, but
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Celebrity coffee brands are having a bit of a moment. Depending on your preference, you can buy coffee from A-list actors like Hugh Jackman and Tom Hanks, rock bands like Green Day and Korn, or rappers like Jadakiss and Snoop Dogg. Sadly, you can no longer buy your coffee from
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We’ve all heard the jokes about decaf, we’ve all seen the “death before decaf” memes. It’s true that for many companies, decaffeinated coffee is an afterthought at best and an annoyance at worst. Maybe it’s roasted without care, or it’s not dialed in with the
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The climate crisis is coming for coffee. It’s coming for everything else as well, of course, but coffee appears uniquely at risk due to its susceptibility to stress and disease. And that threat could be existential: multiple reports and articles in recent years have foretold “the end of coffee”
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Everyone loves a coffee gadget. If you search “coffee” on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, you get 4,542 results. They’re not all gizmos, of course; some are coffee table books, espresso-infused beauty products, or small companies trying to open a cafe. These are not the projects we’re concerned
Coffee News Roundup
Welcome to another Coffee News Roundup. Let’s get to it. ‘A Labor of Love: Gimme! Coffee Becomes a Co-Op’ - via the Ithaca Voice Gimme! Coffee, the Ithaca, New York-based coffee company whose workers formed what is believed to be the first ever barista union in 2018, has transitioned
Coffee News Roundup
Welcome to this week’s Coffee News Roundup. Let’s round up the news. ‘Starbucks Weighs Selling Its UK Operations, Times Reports’ - via Bloomberg Starbucks has tasked its advisers with assessing interest in its UK operations as the company “evaluate[s] strategic options” for its international business, according to
Coffee News Roundup
It’s time for another Coffee News Roundup. Ready? Let’s go. Starbucks Is Closing 16 Locations Due to Safety Concerns, Including 2 Unionized Stores - via Food & Wine 16 Starbucks locations across a number of large US cities will be shut down, the company announced this week—two
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Hello from a warm and sunny Scotland. Let’s take a look at the news. U.S. Coffee Roasters Are Paying Big Premium for Green Beans in Storage - via Reuters The cost of green beans sold from storage in the United States has risen to ten-year-plus highs, due to
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Oh hi there. I didn’t see you come in. Here Are The Five New Coffee Champions From World Of Coffee Milan - via Sprudge After last week’s incident with Schrödinger’s Coffee Festival, we can now confirm that World of Coffee did in fact take place in Milan.
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It’s another weekend, and thus time for another look at the past week’s coffee news. Let’s dive in. 2022 World Of Coffee Milan: The Sprudge Primer - via Sprudge This year’s World of Coffee is taking place this week, moved as it was from Warsaw to
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It’s that time of the week, so let’s take a look at what’s been going on in the world of coffee. Starbucks Threatens Trans Benefits in Anti-Union Push, Staff Say - via Bloomberg Let’s just point out right at the top that June is Pride Month.