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Joe Marrocco Joins Growing US Team of German Importer List + Beisler
Well-known coffee educator Joe Marrocco has joined the small United States wing of the long-running German coffee trading company List + Beisler. Marrocco, who spent more than six years as...
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Importer Sustainable Harvest Absorbs Twin Trading in London
Less than three weeks after the UK-based charity nonprofit Twin announced it was ceasing operations, United States coffee importer Sustainable Harvest has taken over the coffee importing and...
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Three Questions with Rich Futrell of Caravela Coffee
Green coffee trading company Caravela Coffee has announced the appointment of Rich Futrell as sales manager for North America. A Chicago native, Futrell founded the Third Place Coffeehouse in Raleigh,...
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Coffee Trader Sucafina Launches ‘Farmgate Initiative’ for Cash Bonuses
The North American arm of Swiss green coffee trading company Sucafina is launching a program called Farmgate Initiative that gives coffee buyers the ability to tack on additional farmgate payments...
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2019 Year in Review: The Green Coffee Market
2019 saw a spectacularly dichotomous coffee market, with historically low prices for much of the year for the basest commodity coffees — those that constitute the bulk of the coffee...
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Coffee Trading Platform Algrano Grows with $4 Million Funding Round
Swiss coffee trading tech company Algrano has completed another funding round of 4 million Swiss Francs (approximately $4.04 million USD, as of this writing). The investment comes about 18 months...
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Former Olam Director Mark Inman Joins Importer Sustainable Harvest
Longtime specialty coffee professional Mark Inman has joined the team at Portland, Oregon-based green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest, as the new “director of growth.” A past president of...
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Unpacking the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide
The Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide released its latest and largest update just a few days before the end of 2019. The Guide itself is a continuously evolving compendium of financial...
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Red Fox Coffee Merchants Investing in Mexico with Oaxaca Office
Progressive Berkeley, California-based coffee trading company Red Fox Coffee Merchants has signed a lease on a building that will become a lab and offices in Oaxaca, Mexico. The facility builds...
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Coffee for Peace Microlot Program a Direct Connection to Colombian Greens
As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect consumption habits and coffee business operations throughout the globe, roasters now have a new online resource for sourcing fresh Colombian...
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Blockchain-Backed Trading Platform iFinca Promises to Verify Farmgate Prices
A new app- and blockchain-based green coffee trading platform called iFinca is pitching the promise of traceability to ultimately give farmers a larger slice of the pie. After about nine...
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What is Coffee’s Farmgate Price, Really?
Along with FOB, which stands for “free on board,” the “farmgate” price (or “farm gate” price) has been the most frequently used term to describe prices paid by buyers such...
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Pandemic at Harvest: A Survey of Coffee Growers in South America
It is hardly breaking news that the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the specialty coffee industry, from farmers to baristas. We have witnessed how social-distancing measures have paused or disrupted...
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Sustainable Harvest Launches COVID-19 Producer Support Funds with $156K Seed
Portland, Oregon-based green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest has seeded a donation fund with $156,000 to support coffee producers during COVID-19 restrictions, and the company is asking...
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A Remarkable Assessment of Direct Trade from Stumptown and Caravela
In mid-February, Portland, Oregon-based Third Wave coffee pioneer Stumptown Coffee Roasters, along with specialty coffee trading company Caravela Coffee, released the results of an impact report on...
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Relief Effort Underway for Rwanda Coffee Communities Ravaged by Floods
While much of the international media was devoting its attention to COVID-19 in early May, various coffee-growing regions throughout East Africa were being hammered by steady downpours, flash flooding...
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Following Deluge, Relief Effort Supports Uganda’s Bukonzo Joint Cooperative...
Yesterday we shared news of a fundraising campaign to support coffee communities in Northern Rwanda that were some of the hardest hit during this Spring’s historically wet rainy season, which...
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Coffee Economics with Karl: Forms of Coffee, Regional Transparency and...
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve checked in with Karl Wienhold of the Colombian green coffee trading company Cedro Alto on his coffee economics series. The series is already...
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Importer Ally Coffee Launches Ally Open, Featuring Small-Box Orders and...
Green coffee trading company Ally Coffee has launched the Ally Open platform, featuring small-volume orders, self-paced online education courses and a wealth of free resources for smaller commercial...
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Green Coffee Trader Sucafina Unveils Sucafina Specialty, Unifying Numerous...
Geneva, Switzerland-based global green coffee trader Sucafina has brought its various coffee merchant brands under one new unified brand, Sucafina Specialty. Previously, the Sucafina group encompassed...
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