NOA BERGER explores some of the different ways packaging helps to construct different types of authenticity.
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Sitting at the crossroads between Scandinavia and the Baltics, Helsinki has this wonderfully Finnish feeling about it while remaining accessible, vibrant, and dynamic.
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“An update on the status of coffee vocabulary is very much called for,” wrote Ilja. And so, when presenting this work at Sensory Summit in Zurich—complete with wine and coffee samples—Ilja also collected data.
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While many cafes and coffee businesses have seen a drop in business, grocery is going strong. In the sixth and final webinar in this series, we brought in several experts to discuss how businesses can break into grocery.
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While we can’t join together in Portland as planned, we've been working hard in the background to bring some of Expo's features to all of you online throughout something we're calling #ExpoSeason.
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As many businesses are adapting as quickly as possible to new ways of doing business, takeaway and delivery are becoming valuable options. We brought in several experts to discuss how businesses can successfully add or highlight delivery in their business model.
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On Friday, April 17, CTG Chair Hylan Joseph and representatives from the guild discussed how to adapt to the changing business environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic in this special webinar.
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This week in Recap: the ICO released a preliminary assessment of COVID-19 on global coffee consumption; reports of disruption to coffee's supply chain increase; anticipating its largest-ever harvest, Brazil may not have enough field hands to pick coffee; the FNC released a protocol for coffee growing families to help avoid the spread of COVID-19; the VOICE network has issued a call to action to mitigate the impacts of the global pandemic on farming families.
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The fifth instance of the United by Sustainability open discussion series focused on the living income movement. Watch both discussions here.
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As many businesses are adapting as quickly as possible to new ways of doing business, communicating these changes makes up a significant factor in moving forward.
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This fourth webinar in the series looks at the Price Crisis with input from peer reviewers Iliana Delgado, Juan Pablo Solis, David Piza, Niels Haak, Dean Kallivrousis, and Kim Elena Ionescu, and moderated by Ellie Hudson.
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Today, with help from presenter Chad Trewick, you’ll learn about the inception of and future plans for the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide, a project housed at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Guide uses donated contract information about industry pricing behaviors that are anonymized and aggregated to create tables to serve as a guide to help both sellers (producers) and buyers (exporters, importers, roasters) land on pricing that does not rely on the volatile commodity price as a baseline.
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The third instance of the United by Sustainability open discussion series focused on the living income movement. Watch both discussions here.
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Many coffee businesses don’t have online presences or are struggling develop them during this time. Hear from experts in online commerce, including platform developers and coffee companies with strong online sales.
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Many coffee businesses don’t have online presences or are struggling develop them during this time. Hear from experts in online commerce, including platform developers and coffee companies with strong online sales.
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With producers facing issues of climate change, migration of the younger generations to urban areas, and fluctuating coffee prices, it has become increasingly difficult for smallholder farmers to be successful and sustainable. Here, a panel discussion featuring Jörn Severloh, Christopher Mujabi, Karina Orellana, Sara Morrocchi, and Kathrine Löfberg brings together coffee industry leaders and farmers to discuss these critical issues to find common understandings and a path forward.
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From March 18-23, the SCA ran a survey among the specialty coffee community designed to assess the impact to businesses throughout the supply chain. In a recording of the first webinar in the series, Heather Ward and Peter Giuliano go over the results of the survey, along with key insights from respondents, including respondents’ suggestions for business adaptation in the new environment.
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The second instance of the United by Sustainability open discussion series focused on the living income movement. Watch both discussions here.
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This week on Recap: La Marzocco mourns Honorary President, Piero Bambi; the C market price of coffee has risen as large companies "stockpile" coffee ahead of expected decreased freight capacity; specialty coffee companies around the world continue to innovate new products and ways to work as the pandemic continues; a recent survey by the National Coffee Association USA has found that US Americans drink more coffee than ever; the second academic paper of the SCA's Brewing Fundamentals research project with the UC Davis Coffee Center, supported by Breville, was published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
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Join us for the first webinar "Survey Results and Key Learnings" in a series covering the results of this survey, hosted by Heather Ward and Peter Giuliano on Friday, April 3, at 8am PDT / 4pm GMT.
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