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Exploring the Growth of the “Coffee And” Segment
As a move towards the "functional" grips the beverage sector, how might this trend shape opportunities for specialty coffee products and consumers?
Jim Watson explores the current market categories and trends in the US, specifically the growth of the "coffee and" segment.
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ESG for You and Me
For organizations striving to understand where profitability intersects with non-financial factors, the term ESG may be just as familiar as sustainability. KELLEM EMANUELE offers an ESG primer tailored for the coffee industry. →
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A New Wave? Training and Education for Coffee Professionals
What knowledge and practices are essential to today's coffee industry leaders? As coffee culture undergoes a transformative shift, learning and education are paramount.
Growing with a Purpose: Coffee Collective
It's easy to make assumptions about what makes a business like Coffee Collective successful, but the truth is that success - and growth - result from a complex web of decisions.
All Money is Not Equal: Understanding How Different Forms of Capital Can Fuel A Business
During the past decade, specialty coffee has seen at least a dozen regional retail brands explode onto the national (and even the international) market, gaining recognition and multi-channel distribution by leveraging venture capital.
Is It Good? A Generous Exploration of Memorable Cafe Experiences
In this talk, Chad Little identifies common traits of successful cafés and explains how these traits help shop owners mitigate risk and avoid premature attrition.
What We Can Still Do with E-Commerce
Yoonseo Choi advises coffee retailers on how to succeed in e-commerce.
What Point-of-sale Data Tells Us About Coffee Shops
Payhere is a Point-of-Sale system chosen by one out of every three new coffee shops in Korea.
Meet the SCA Coffee Directory
Get to know the SCA’s global platform for connecting buyers and sellers.
Not Just a World of Coffee: Connecting Coffee, Wine, and Cacao
NOA BERGER explores how the “field” of coffee was inspired by (and inspires) related industries like fine wine, cacao, and—more recently—vanilla, and queries its impacts.
Can “Attractive” Linguistic Descriptions Lead to More “Attractive” Coffee for Consumers?
Cognitive psychologist BENTE KLEIN HAZEBROEK and language professor ILJA CROIJMANS explore the role and construction of coffee’s linguistic descriptions—those flavor notes and descriptions across coffee packaging and websites!—in a consumer’s willingness to pay.
Beyond Freshness: How Packaging Color Influences Consumer Behavior
Neuroscientist Dr. FABIANA CARVALHO shares the recent results of a Coffee Science Foundation study, supported by Savor Brands Inc., to understand how packaging color influences consumer behavior.
Supply Chain Sustainability: Shifting from “Can” to “Must”
SARAH CHARLES, writer, Communications Officer at the International Trade Centre, and author of a recent dissertation on mandatory supply chain due diligence, outlines the history, opportunities, and challenges of regulatory sustainability approaches while offering a path forward for coffee businesses grappling with the shift from a voluntary to a regulatory approach.
Mapping the Market: An Overview of Plant-Based Beverages’ Sensory Attributes
The market for plant-based beverages continues to grow rapidly as people look for ways to make more sustainable choices. However, it is also increasingly difficult for consumers to orientate themselves because of the wide variety of raw materials used to make plant-based drinks.
Using Sensory Analysis to Test the Claim that Cold Brew is Sweeter and Less Acidic
As cold brew coffee has grown in popularity in recent years, so too has the number of strong opinions about the brewing method’s impact (positive or negative) on the flavors in the resulting cup—but they’d never been systematically studied.
New Year, New Relationships—Same Cup of Coffee?
As the world enters its third year living with COVID-19, it turns out even a global pandemic can’t disrupt some universal truths about coffee consumption.
All in the Mind: How External Cues Impact Brain Activity and Preference
If we’re only able to build our opinion on a coffee’s aroma, taste, and mouthfeel as we consume it, how can we effectively communicate what’s inside the packaging—and set expectations we’ll be able to meet—while it’s still on the shelf?
ESG for You and Me: Takeaways for the Coffee Industry
For organizations striving to understand where profitability intersects with non-financial factors, the term ESG may be just as familiar as sustainability. KELLEM EMANUELE offers an ESG primer tailored for the coffee industry.
How Strong is the Coffee You’re Cupping?
There are countless coffee cuppings performed by coffee professionals around the world, assessing coffee quality, every day. Lead Author JIEXIN LIANG suggests we’re more easily able to control our total dissolved solids (TDS) via brew ratio instead of our extraction yield (E).
The Color in Your Cup
What could the color of your cold brew be communicating to your customers? Lead author SARA YEAGER shares the findings of a recently published paper, “Roast Level and Brew Temperature Significantly Affect the Color of Brewed Coffee,” published in the Journal of Food Science, exploring how coffee beverage color varies with origin, roast level, and brew temperature.
Jaago and Smell the Coffee: Deanonymizing (and Decolonizing) Indian Coffee
Origin stories do more than add color to your cup: these extrinsic attributes are an integral part of determining the price we pay (and that farmers earn) for coffee.
Brick by (Virtual) Brick: Tapping the Limitless Potential of New Mediums
Despite (most) of our return to coffee spaces, coffee's unprecedented move online during lockdowns forced social media accounts to pivot from a tool to get people in seats to a destination in and of itself. What happens now? Do we stay on this path, or do we revert? Morgan Eckroth explores the growth of social media during the pandemic and offers actionable recommendations for coffee businesses to make the most of the opportunities ahead.
NEW Market Research
The 2019 US Coffee Market Overview
Periodically, since 2009, the SCA has published a US Coffee Market Overview, focused on the retail value of coffee in the US and the places where it is consumed →