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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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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.
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.
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.
Functional Flavor: 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.
Consuming More than Coffee: Emerging Trends, Mediating Taste
As specialty coffee reaches new markets—and the number of individuals making these choices increases—it becomes increasingly enmeshed with our sense of identity. We constantly navigate brands (personal and product) in online and real-life spaces—how can we use signifiers across these various brand landscapes to better connect with consumers? What trends are emerging inside—and out—of the sector, and how can we leverage them?
Learning from the Spiritual Home of Specialty Coffee
Dagmawi I.E. re-introduces Ethiopian coffee and its consumption, tracing emerging trends in Ethiopia and situating them in context to trends seen in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Traditional and emerging markets alike can learn from Ethiopia's lessons in charting a way forward through in their own unique context.
Vietnam: A New Vocabulary
Will Frith, Founder of Building Coffee in Ho Chi Minh City, believes it’s past time for a new narrative about Vietnam, and not only as a coffee producing country – Vietnam’s coffee retail and consumption trends point to new ways for coffee drinkers to connect to each other internationally and across supply chains domestically.
Intersecting Identities: Understanding Israel's Booming Specialty Market
Using her experience studying specialty coffee in France (a traditional market) and Brazil (a domestic market), Noa Berger shares more about an exciting intersection of cultural identity and specialty coffee driving the growth of the Israeli specialty coffee market.
Appraising Specialty Coffee Attributes
This is an opportunity for us to examine how we assess, define, and value specialty coffee, to stop and take stock of how things have moved and changed over time, and how they interact with one another. How does a coffee’s attributes impact how we understand its value? And how might that be different from its cup score?
Evolving Experience: Different Approaches to Meeting Customer Expectations in 2022 | Panel Discussion | Coffee Retail Summit 2022 (Europe)
What are the customer expectations in 2022, and how do you meet them? This panel discussion features Pascal Herzog, Executive at ViCAFE and Serafina Luginbühl, Finance & Business Development Manager at Kaffeezentrale Switzerland.
Making Sense of Macro Data: Using the US Market Overview Report | Kim Elena Ionescu | Coffee Retail Summit 2022 (US)
Kim Elena Ionescu shares insights from the US Market Report and what we can learn from it.
A New Framework for Defining Specialty Coffee: The Attributes Conception | Re:co 2021
Peter Giuliano introduces a new way to define specialty coffee through the attributes conception, which expands our understanding of “specialty” into the realm of coffee experiences.
Consumer Perception of Craft Chocolate and Desirable Product Attributes | Re:co 2021
What can consumers tell us about craft chocolate, and therefore, about specialty coffee consumer preferences? To understand American premium chocolate consumer perception of craft chocolate and desirable chocolate product attributes, Dr. Allison Brown conducted a mixed-methods study using focus groups and projective mapping.
What Can We Learn from Each Other? The Changing Definition of Fine Wine | Re:co 2021
As we grapple with our own definition of “specialty,” Pauline Vicard shares ARENI’s journey of defining “fine wine” and explores opportunities for mutual learnings between industries.
A Glimpse of the Future: Seven Signs | Re:co 2021
Bill Murray of the US National Coffee Association offers seven signs that point towards our sector’s future post-pandemic.
An Obsession with Scale - 25, Issue 5
If we zoom in on the world of specialty chocolate, we learn that there is a category of companies that fetishizes the small, the handmade, and the laboriously produced. CARLA D. MARTIN, PhD explores the concepts of commodity, craft, and taste in specialty chocolate.
Five Key Takeaways from The National Coffee Data Trends Study
With so many data points in the National Coffee Data Trends Specialty Coffee Breakout Report to consider, what are some of the main takeaways for coffee retail businesses to keep in mind?
2020 European Market Overview: Retail Sales
Just how much did the pandemic impact the overall retail sales of coffee-focused shops and cafés in Europe? Find out in this overview infographic, created with data from Euromonitor International.
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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 →