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Everyone at Caffe Society would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Caffe Society blog team is taking a well earned break over Christmas, but don’t worry we will be back on January 4th. Please note that the Caffe Society sales team will be in over the Christmas [...]
Posted by Matt on the 24th December 2010
For Darth Vader fans across the US, an intriguing new coffee blend, ThinkGeek’s Dark Side Roast coffee, may well prove the ideal way of adding a spicy kick start to a dark winter’s morning. As its name implies, the Star Wars themed blend is a dark roasted gourmet whole bean coffee, prepared by hand by [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 24th December 2010
The Swiss supermarket chain owned by Migros, Denner SA, has started to offer coffee capsules that can reportedly be used in the machines of a leading brand owner in Switzerland. The capsules are already available for an equivalent retail price of 25 centimes apiece (or US$0.26). This price will be rising to 33 centimes as [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 23rd December 2010
After long-standing careers with the Home Office but unfortunate redundancies as a result of the latest public sector cut-backs in October, a couple have found a new lease of life through their newly established coffee shop in Faversham’s Preston Street. A husband and wife team, Nick Green and Julie Greenwell-Green put immigration forms aside and [...]
Posted by Matt on the 22nd December 2010
Able to produce a strong volume of coffee, Jamaica’s coffee industry is currently facing a mismatch between supply and demand. Hopefully only a temporary situation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has injected J$310.5 million to appease the issue and to help support a consistent income for coffee farmers. The ministry itself was also the [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 21st December 2010
Dating back to the early 1980s, the time-honoured puzzle video game of Tetris has been enjoyed by millions across the globe for almost 30 years. Developed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union, it was released in 1984 and has now escaped the confines of four-walled screens to adorn a retro-looking and brightly-coloured coffee cup, [...]
Posted by Phil on the 20th December 2010
Organised by the University of Cincinnati’s Economics Centre, 20 sixth grade students are currently getting a taste of the business world by running the Palazzo de Caffe outlet at Westwood’s Dater Montessori Elementary School in the US. Forming part of the university’s Student Enterprise Program, which runs from September to May and is now in [...]
Posted by Phil on the 17th December 2010
Civet coffee, or Kopi Luwak as it is more widely known, has become more and more popular across the globe and is increasingly viewed as a rare delicacy, to the point where a cup of the animal-derived elixir can command up to US$100 per cup in certain markets. Although good news for enthusiasts of this [...]
Posted by Matt on the 16th December 2010
Coffee Planet, a producer of fresh gourmet coffee that claims to have created the sector in the UAE, has been recognised for in the ‘Industry Achievement for Retail’ category. Having brought the industry from inexistence to where it is today – to a point where four million Coffee Planet cups will have been consumed in [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 15th December 2010
Trung Nguyen, Vietnam’s leading coffee processing business, recently opened up an exhibition of some 100 coffee items, both new and old, in Ho Chi Minh City. Set to run until 4 January 2011, the exhibition is said to introduce its visitors to the processes that have been involved in crafting the perfect cup of coffee [...]
Posted by Matt on the 14th December 2010
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