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Another Giant Step for Transparency with the 2018 Specialty Coffee...
The team at Emory University-based Transparent Trade Coffee has released the first version of its “Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide,” designed as a price discovery tool for both buyers and sellers...
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Swiss Water Decaffeinated Opening Europe Office
Citing strong growth across the Atlantic, Canadian coffee trader and decaffeination processor Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. has announced the opening of a new European office, in Bordeaux,...
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Green Importer Trabocca Moves to 1-Bag Minimum with MyTrabocca Ordering Portal
Ethiopia specialist green coffee importer Trabocca has launched MyTrabocca (registration required), a new ordering portal that gives roasters worldwide the opportunity to order quantities as small as...
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Amazonian Tribe Partners with Algrano to Access the European Coffee Market
The indigenous community Suruí Paiter of the Brazilian Amazonas has exported its coffee to Europe for the first time, working in partnership with the Swiss-based tech platform Algrano, an online coffee...
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Universal Truths of Coffee Sourcing
(Editor’s note: This is a preview of an article that appeared in the July/August 2018 issue of Roast magazine. Click here to read the full article.) Sourcing coffee involves both a...
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Sara Morrocchi on the Impact of Market Consolidation in Specialty Coffee
Over the past three years, one of the prevailing patterns within the specialty coffee industry has been of consolidation, with investors and corporations such as JAB Holding Company, Nestlé, and others...
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‘New Models for Success’ as Let’s Talk Coffee Heads to Cartagena, Colombia
When Let’s Talk Coffee debuted 15 years ago in Mexico, it was by all accounts one of the first times people from throughout and around the coffee chain — roasters,...
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Harvest and Arrivals: A Roaster’s Guide to Coffee Seasons
The language of seasonality has long been used in conversations about coffee, yet it has not always been an accurate reflection of the mechanisms of the trade. This is pretty...
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The Swirling Winds of the Global Coffee Trade in 2018
The coffee trade weathered some remarkably swirling winds in 2018. While political instability among various producing and traditional importing countries disrupted some traditional trade channels,...
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Beyond Green Coffee, Importers Brought Some Fresh News in 2018
Most importers bring exciting news each month about what seasonal green coffees they have to offer. Yet importing companies themselves are also occasionally the focus of the news, whether by...
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Another Giant Step for Transparency with the 2018 Specialty Coffee...
The team at Emory University-based Transparent Trade Coffee has released the first version of its “Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide,” designed as a price discovery tool for both buyers and sellers...
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UAE Stakes Claim as Global Trade Leader with Massive DMCC Coffee Centre
Government leaders and foreign dignitaries this week inaugurated the DMCC Coffee Centre, a massive coffee importing, quality analysis, roasting and warehousing facility designed as a global hub for the...
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Trabocca to Launch The Ethiopia Cup Green Coffee Auction
The Dutch green coffee trading company Trabocca is preparing to host The Ethiopian Cup, an awards and auction program designed to highlight some of the finest coffees the progenitorial coffee...
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NKG-Owned Importers Rothfos and InterAmerican to Join in New HQ
The world’s largest coffee trading company, Hamburg, Germany-based Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), has announced plans to consolidate the headquarters of its main green coffee importing and trading...
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Oikocredit Invests $4.7 Million in Green Coffee Trader Caravela Coffee
Dutch social impact investment firm Oikocredit has closed a USD $4.7 million investment in green coffee export and import company Caravela Coffee. According to an announcement from Caravela, the...
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From Honduras to Georgia: Farming Forms the Soul of Alma Coffee
Georgia-based coffee farming, importing and roasting company Copan Coffee Roasters has officially rebranded to Alma Coffee. Though the name is less straightforward in a literal sense, the spirit of the...
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Mercon Launches US-Based Specialty Importer Novus Coffee Imports
Longtime coffee trading company Mercon Coffee Group has launched a new specialty coffee importing division called Novus Coffee Imports. With a home base in Seattle, Novus will specialize in the...
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Colombian Microlot Specialist Direct Origin is Now Called Cedro Alto
The vertically oriented Colombian green coffee business formerly known as Direct Origin Trading has rebranded under the name Cedro Alto, a change designed to better reflect its network of coffee...
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Specialty Coffee Importer Genuine Origin Opening West Coast Warehouse
Irvington, New York-based green coffee importer Genuine Origin is expanding its reach with a new West Coast warehouse opening in Kent, Washington, next month. The company is also opening a...
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Importer Catalyst Trade Offers a Fresh Vision for Ethiopian Coffee
Upon launching their family-run, seed-to-cup coffee consulting brand Catalyst Coffee Consulting, founders Emily and Michael McIntyre weren’t exactly sure where the venture would take them, but they did...
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