Nominations are now open for the 2020 SCA Sustainability Awards. The deadline to submit an application is December 20, 2019.
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The 2019 SCA Board of Directors elections will open Friday, November 1, and close on Saturday, November 30, 2019.
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The SCA's US Coffee Market Overview 2018 offers a large-scale understanding of coffee retail sales.
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Join the SCA, COSA, Farmer Brothers, and the Inter-American Development Bank for a webinar to share learnings from their joint undertaking to develop a landscape assessment framework for Jinotega, Nicaragua.
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Sensory Summit, a two-day conference designed to educate, inform, and inspire the specialty coffee sensory professional, will return to the purpose-built Sensory Theatre inside the Robert Mondavi Institute at the University of California Davis January 30 – February 1, 2020.
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The SCA Coffee Science Foundation (CSF), launched by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) in April 2019, has announced that Italian coffee machine manufacturer Simonelli Group will become the first major partner of the organization, beginning a new four-year research project.
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The slate of candidates, presented last month by the Nominating Committee of the SCA Board, led by Heather Perry, has been joined by a petition candidate.
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This piece is the first of a series by KIM ELENA IONESCU exploring the systems map developed as part of the SCA’s year-long Price Crisis Response (PCR) initiative.
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By now, many readers will have heard about the coffee price crisis and the SCA’s response team, dubbed the Price Crisis Response Initiative. If you are among them, you likely understand that the price crisis is a complex issue and that there’s no easy, quick solution.
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On behalf of the SCA Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to present the slate of candidates for the 2019 SCA Board of Directors elections.
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The staff and volunteers at the Specialty Coffee Association are pleased to introduce the recipients of the 2019-2021 Leadership Equity and Diversity (LEAD) Scholarship Program.
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Each year, the Specialty Coffee Association’s Best New Product Competition recognizes new products that represent quality and add value to the specialty coffee and tea industry. Eight different product categories are evaluated using the “Best I.D.E.A.S.” criteria set out by the SCA, with a winner declared in each category.
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Design Lab is a platform for showcasing great design in specialty coffee, taking place at World of Coffee for the first the time in Berlin this June. Design Lab was established at our 2016 Expo in Atlanta, focusing initially on coffee packaging, but has grown to include new showcases and will now be present at two shows.
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The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is proud to announce the winners of the Best New Product and Design Lab Awards at the 2019 World of Coffee in Berlin.
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Two years ago in Budapest, we released our first-ever 25 Magazine. It’s exciting to begin our third year of insights, stories, and research with the release of Issue 09!
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Winners in each of this year’s four Design Lab categories were declared yesterday afternoon – meet them below!
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The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is proud to announce the winners of the Best New Product and Design Lab Awards at the 2019 Specialty Coffee Expo in Boston.
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Looking to learn more about this year’s other competitions at Expo? We’ve put together a handy map of where to find all things 2019 Best New Product Awards and Design Lab on the show floor.
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Welcome to Issue 8 of 25, your quarterly SCA publication sharing specialty coffee research, insights, trends, and stories from our specialty community.
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In our first webinar in this series, Peter and Chad will present and answer questions about the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide, a project run by researchers at Emory University that relies on an expanding group of data donors – roasters, importers, exporters, and others – who provide detailed contract data covering specialty coffee transactions from recent harvests.
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