A solid decade of growth, increased venture capital investment and increased consolidation among manufacturers and other companies catering to the coffee industry came to a screeching halt almost overnight in…
While the COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 an unspeakably brutal year for many existing coffee roasting companies large and small — especially those that leaned heavily on wholesale — a fresh…
Through the smoke and haze from the smoldering crater of 2020, we can look back to find a plethora of coffee products designed to help people improve their coffee at…
With many coffee retailers struggling, skittish investment markets and the near-complete shut down of in-person trade events in 2020, the commercial coffee equipment segment experienced a noticeably quiet year. Yet…
Coming into 2020, commodity coffee prices remained a common foe among coffee producers all over the globe, as the “C market price” remained woefully low. Then came 2020, and another…
Last year at this time, we declared that “the business of coffee sustainability surged in 2019.” You could argue that sustainability throughout the coffee sector took a step backwards in…
While the medical and political sciences were not lacking for content in 2020, coffee science continued its rigorous forward march, with new findings related to coffee plant health and genetics,…
A version of a dream hatched in apartment 1A on a cobblestone street in Helsinki, Finland, recently became a reality in Wilmington, Vermont, as doors to 1A Coffee opened to…
With participation from many of the world’s largest coffee trading and roasting companies, the Sustainable Coffee Challenge has announced broad and ambitious climate- and labor-related goals towards making coffee the…
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Chinese coffee giant Luckin Coffee has agreed to pay a $180 million penalty following charges that the company defrauded investors….