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Ninety Plus Team Introduces Higher Volume Brand, Level Up Coffee
Ninety Plus Coffee, a U.S.-based green coffee distributor with direct relationships and offices in Ethiopia and Panama, is developing a new brand, Level Up Coffee. “Level Up is positioned in...
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When Quality Falls Short: Exploring Risk in the High-End Specialty Trade
The Wall Street Journal yesterday published a must-read story for anyone interested in the future of direct-trade relationships for premium coffees among growers, importers and roasters. The story...
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Erna Knutsen to Retire with an Incredible Legacy in Specialty Coffee
Erna Knutsen, known for coining the phrase “specialty coffee” four decades ago, is retiring as operations begin to wind down at Knutsen Coffees Ltd. Knutsen takes with her a rich...
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Meet NewCrop, an Online Split-Lot Green Coffee Bidding Platform
A group of coffee roasters and developers has launched a green coffee bidding platform under the name NewCrop, promoting trade with individual producers or importers and offering split lots in orders...
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A Lesson in Sample Roasting with Roaster Joe from Cafe Imports
It makes perfect sense that green coffee importers and sellers would be at the forefront of transparent roasting education. The majority of them don’t have their own wholesale roasting brands...
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Green Trading Platform Café Internacional Introducing Spot Coffee in U.S.
Café Internacional, the El Salvador-based company that launched an online green coffee trading platform earlier this year, has announced the launch of an import structure to bring spot coffee offerings...
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Cropster Introduces ‘Shops’ Platform for Green Traders and Buyers
Cropster Hub — the online trading platform recently unveiled by roasting software provider Cropster — has launched its new framework called “Shops” that brings green coffee buyers and sellers together....
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Green Importer The Collaborative’s Investment in Independent Coffee Research
A critical component of the coffee trade — or any trade, for that matter — is time. What is available, at what cost, and when. The market moves in real time, and buyers...
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Global Coffee Trading Launches in S.D. with Importing, Roaster Sharing and...
Global Coffee Trading, a new coffee importing and consulting business, is putting the finishing touches on its San Diego headquarters, which, when fully furnished, will include a green coffee trading...
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Nordic Approach Teams with Pulley Collective for Direct U.S. Green Coffee Sales
The Oslo-based high-end green coffee importer and seller Nordic Approach has partnered with the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based shared roasting facility The Pulley Collective to being shipping NA-sourced green...
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Green Coffee Aggregator Beanstock Makes Official Launch Following SCAA Success
As curation is to coffee and its service, disruption is to technology. A tech startup focused on connecting buyers with green coffee sellers is defying both these concepts with a...
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Joanna Lawson Leading Trader Caravela Coffee’s First European Office, in London
Green coffee trader Caravela Coffee (formerly Virmax) recently established its first European Office, which will be led by longtime trader and certified Q Grader Joanna Lawson in Central London’s (UK)...
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Coffee Shrub Replanting In Larger Warehouse This Summer
Just in time for its 20th anniversary year in business, Oakland, Calif.-based green coffee and home roasting supply retailer Sweet Maria’s Coffee, and its growing micro-wholesale entity The Coffee...
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Royal Coffee Debuts 22-Pound ‘Crown Jewel’ Boxes with Integrated Roast Analyses
Bay Area green coffee importer and trader Royal Coffee has introduced Crown Jewels, 22-pound boxes of green coffee of which the Royal team is especially proud. The line launched with 15...
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Olam Acquires Longtime East African Coffee Specialist Schluter
Olam Coffee parent company Olam International Limited has acquired the full interest in longtime East African-focused UK coffee company Schluter S.A., valued at approximately $7.5 million USD,...
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Brazil Specialty Coffee Association to Offer Some US Buyers an Expenses-Paid...
The nonprofit Brazil Specialty Coffee Association is launching an outreach program designed to directly connect U.S. coffee-buying companies with Brazilian specialty coffees. While many of the...
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Coffee Blossom Honey: A Sweet Extension of the Farmer to Importer Relationship
Throughout the world’s coffee lands, beekeeping has been proven effective not only in providing additional sources of food and income for farmers through honey production, but in promoting coffee plant...
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Growers Alliance Cafe and Gift Shop a Hard-Earned Kenya Connection in Florida
The two Kenya-born relatives of coffee growers that founded Florida-based Growers Alliance Coffee Company were indeed brought together by coffee, although interestingly not in Kenya. They met in the...
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Hamburg Coffee Co. Acquires Majority Stake of San Diego-Based Importer ICT
According to a partnership agreement that took effect earlier this week, 30-year-old German green coffee trader Hamburg Coffee Company (HACOFCO) has become the majority stakeholder of San Diego-based...
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Steven Diaz and Angela Pelaez to Lead RGC Coffee Subsidiary in Bogota
The Quebec, Canada-based green coffee importer RGC Coffee Inc. (RGC), has created a new subsidiary, RGC Americas, based in Bogotá, Colombia. Longtime Colombian coffee professionals Steven Diaz and...
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