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Trader Caravela Coffee Implementing Self-Management Model Called One Caravela
Green coffee trading company Caravela Coffee has announced it is reshaping its management structure with the goals of improving collaboration, empowering individuals and better responding to the...
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Four Days in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica
The mystique of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica is tangible. Curvy roads about an hour outside of Kingston wind upward into the mountains until you can literally touch the clouds....
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Three Questions with Aimerance Merveille of Semilla Coffee
Aimerance Merveille can recall childhood days in the Democratic Republic of Congo — wearing her favorite red floral dress, watching her brothers play soccer, daydreaming. Yet while other children were...
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Three Questions with Gabriela Parfait of The Good Sourcing
After eight years working for the French green coffee importing company Belco, Gabriela Parfait has launched a coffee-focused company called The Good Sourcing. The new venture is intentionally small,...
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Covoya Specialty Coffee Adds Mark Inman as Senior Trader
Longtime green coffee professional Mark Inman has joined United States-based Covoya Specialty Coffee as director and senior trader. A past president of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (now...
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Brazil’s Expocacer Cooperative Opens US Hub in Delaware
One of Brazil’s largest coffee cooperatives, Expocacer, recently launched operations in the United States, opening a logistics hub in Delaware. The Patrocínio, Minas Gerais-based group — which...
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NKG Launches NKG Indonesia Imports to Meet Domestic Demand
German green coffee conglomerate Neumann Kaffee Gruppe has launched an importing company in Indonesia in response to increased domestic demand for coffee. NKG Indonesia Imports is technically NKG’s...
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Royal Coffee Buys Big Warehouse and Industrial Complex in Oakland
California-based coffee trading company Royal Coffee has purchased a new warehouse, distribution and manufacturing complex totaling 103,500 square feet in Oakland. [Disclosure: Royal Coffee is a...
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JNP Coffee Adds Gerra Harrigan as Sales Director
Burundi-focused green coffee trading company JNP Coffee has added longtime coffee professional Gerra Harrigan as director of sales and strategy. A former trader for importer InterAmerican Coffee and...
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Green Coffee Trader Sucafina Launches Sucafina Guatemala
Multinational green coffee trading company Sucafina has launched a Guatemalan subsidiary called Guatemala Sucafina. Longtime coffee sourcing and export professional Carlos Ordoñez, a past advisor to...
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From Peru, Artidoro Rodriguez Café Makes US Launch
Peruvian coffee roaster and exporter Artidoro Rodriguez Café recently launched in the United States, opening a coffee bar in Virginia while selling wholesale roasted coffees. The company is also...
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Three Questions with Vikram Patel of PNG-Focused Benchmark Coffee Traders
After passing the Illinois state bar, Vikram Patel practiced law for two years. During that time, he was also sowing the seeds of a green coffee business that has since...
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Three Questions with Francis Kungu of Kenya-Focused Jamii Coffee
Francis Kungu can recall his younger days sitting with his friends at a pub across the street from a coffee farm in rural Kenya. “We used to swear that we’d...
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Energy Trader Hartree Plans to Acquire the Owner of Volcafe
New York City-based energy and commodities trading firm Hartree Partners LP announced plans to acquire ED&F Man Commodities, the owner of green coffee trading giant Volcafe. The acquisition...
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Coffee Trading Conglomerate NKG Opening First China Business
Green coffee trading conglomerate Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is opening its first trading business in China, responding to a consumer market that has rapidly expanded over the past decade. In...
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Three Questions with Denis Mialocq of Belco
Denis Mialocq spends most of his days teaching others about the complexities of coffee, from gustatory explorations to environmental, economic and social issues. The training manager at green coffee...
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Qima Coffee Parent Company Buys UK’s The Gentlemen Baristas
Origins 1450, the UK-based parent company of green coffee trader Qima Coffee, has acquired London’s The Gentlemen Baristas for an undisclosed sum. In an announcement this week, Origins 1450 said...
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Column: Don’t Buy Too Much Coffee
An importer will never tell you this, but don’t buy too much coffee. Most importers view trading as a zero-sum game where the objective is simple: win as much business...
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In Brooklyn, Lucienne Coffee is Serving Coffees Roasted in Japan
A new coffee company called Lucienne Coffee in Brooklyn, New York, is specializing in the brewing and sales of high-quality specialty coffees roasted in, and imported from, Japan. Selling whole...
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Ninety Plus and Arizona’s Coffee Support Sign US Distribution Deal
High-end coffee production company Ninety Plus announced an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with Arizona-based business-to-business specialist Coffee Support. Coffee Support plans to release...
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