Updated Rules & Regulations Released for the 2021 WLAC, WCIGS, and WCRC

Updated Rules & Regulations have been announced for the 2021 World Latte Art, World Coffee in Good Spirits, and World Coffee Roasting Championships, scheduled to take place at the Taipei International Coffee Show in November. You can find the rules and scoresheets for each of the competitions linked below, with changes broadly focused on COVID-19 related precautions and updates that were introduced for the other 2021 World Coffee Championships.

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SCA USA Chapter Welcomes the 2021 - 2023 Chapter Committee Members

The USA Chapter of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA USA Chapter) completed its inaugural lottery election process to elect incoming members of the Chapter Committee.

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Coffee Retail Summit Videos Now Available

Watch Yannis Apostolopoulos, CEO of the Specialty Coffee Association, welcome Coffee Retail Summit’s attendees to a program focused on three main topics: Navigating COVID-19, Business of Coffee, and Building Your Brand.

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Planning a Resilient Business | Coffee Retail Summit

Planning helps entrepreneurs avoid the trap of running businesses that neither make enough money nor let them do what they love.

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The Internal Focus: Customer Experience and Community Starts from Within | Coffee Retail Summit

When your staff feel valued, your customers feel valued. This session focuses on the importance of your internal structure, systems, and culture.

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A Conversation with Lara Marrero, Retail Leader and Principal at Gensler | Coffee Retail Summit

Stephen Morrissey speaks to Lara Marrero about the future of retail design and what it might mean for the coffee retail marketplace.

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Innovations & Trends in the Beverage Marketplace | Coffee Retail Summit

We’re joined by analysts from Rabobank who will cover trends in non-alcoholic beverages and how they might apply to coffee retail, alcohol and wine market innovation and adaptation during the global pandemic, as well as the overall beverage shift to e-commerce and different models in the direct-to-consumer space.

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Investing in Retail Businesses: The Case for Coffee | Coffee Retail Summit

What are the fundamentals and economics of a coffee retail business from an investor's perspective?

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More than Advertising and Sales: Marketing Principles for Environmental, Social, and Financial Sustainability | Coffee Retail Summit

We'll overview concepts such as the value of setting strategic marketing objectives, target marketing and brand positioning, and the marketing mix—all through the lens of environmental, social, and financial sustainability.

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Beyond Your Logo: Creating and Cultivating Brand Loyalty | Coffee Retail Summit

In this presentation you will learn to position your brand through word of mouth, brand affiliation and unique proposition creating your brand identity that customers will love. Plus, special guest Chérmelle Edwards will share key trends in the specialty coffee space.

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Tech in Retail: The New Normal | Coffee Retail Summit

Luisa Castellanos is the Co-Founder of Science on Call, an IT help desk for restaurants and retailers.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Specialty Coffee Community | Coffee Retail Summit

In this talk, Peter Giuliano and Katie von der Lieth discuss results from the SCA’s third and most recent Community Impact of COVID-19 survey.

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Real Estate: The Current Landscape for Retail | Coffee Retail Summit

Ariel Schuster discussed current trends in the market, the impact of the pandemic in commercial real estate, and new opportunities for retail tenants.

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Retail Reboot: Coffee After COVID | Coffee Retail Summit

National Coffee Association President & CEO William "Bill" Murray explores how COVID-19 has impacted coffee consumption and consumer purchasing habits, which changes may be temporary and which are here to stay, and opportunities for retail coffee to thrive in this new landscape.

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The External Focus: How Coffee Retail Businesses Exist in Communities | Coffee Retail Summit

Coffee Retail Businesses have always been central to community activities, whether its the meeting place for community organizers to kick off their projects and activities or the place to celebrate group accomplishments.

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Premier Training Campus Spotlight: Academy of Coffee Project NY

This week, KALEENA TEOH and CHI SUM NGAI, co-founders of Coffee Project NY, told us about the company’s Premier Training Campus located in Long Island City, NY, USA.

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#CoffeeExpo2021 is heading to New Orleans September 30 - October 3, 2021

The Specialty Coffee Association is pleased to announce that the Specialty Coffee Expo will return September 30 to October 3, 2021 in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Many of the popular Expo features will return with new COVID-19 safety measures in place led by a designated COVID-19 Safety Officer.

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Beyond Recovery | 25, Issue 14

As we trundle into 2021, this second year of pandemic, the conversation has shifted from questions of management to those of recovery.

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Hanging in the Balance: Zimbabwe's Precarious Coffee Recovery | 25, Issue 14

RAY MWAREYA and NYASHA BHOBO tell the story of Zimbabwe’s coffee collapse and recovery as the country grapples with the legacies of its colonial history.

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A Snapshot in Time: Contextualizing the Community Impact Survey | 25, Issue 14

KATIE VON DER LIETH revisits the findings of the SCA’s COVID-19 Community Impact Survey while exploring the role of “snapshot” surveys in a greater ecosystem of market data.

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