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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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Supply Chain Sustainability: Shifting from “Can” to “Must”
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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.

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ESG for You and Me: Takeaways for the Coffee Industry
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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.

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Brick by (Virtual) Brick: Tapping the Limitless Potential of New Mediums
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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.

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A Conversation with Dominika Poniatowska | Coffee Retail Summit 2022 (Europe)
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A Conversation with Dominika Poniatowska | Coffee Retail Summit 2022 (Europe)

Dominika Poniatowska is a high class market and insights analyst. She gained professional experience in the consulting, FMCG and retail industries. For almost 10 years associated with areas such as category management, shopper insights and revenue growth management. For almost 6 years she worked for the beverage market leader where she actively translated the corporate strategy into the sale of beverages. At the beginning of 2018 she joined Costa Coffee team where currently is responsible for portfolio management including matching the assortment to sales segments, determining pricing strategy and adapting promotional mechanisms to shopper needs.

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A Conversation with Michael Nagel | Coffee Retail Summit 2022 (Europe)
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A Conversation with Michael Nagel | Coffee Retail Summit 2022 (Europe)

Michael Nagel leads the International Expansion of BibeCoffee, a Telemetry solution that makes it possible to connect both semi-automatic barista machines and fully automatic machines of any brand on one platform. BibeCoffee helps coffee roasters and chains to standardize cup quality, transform commercial models and streamline maintenance.

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Scaling for Good | Jessica Worden | Coffee Retail Summit (Europe)
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Scaling for Good | Jessica Worden | Coffee Retail Summit (Europe)

Jessica is most well known for leading GAIL's Bakery to define good coffee in the hearts and minds of neighborhoods across London and surrounding areas. She is passionate about building inclusive cultures, celebrating craft and creating opportunities for personal development through coffee. In her role as Head of Coffee, she focusses on building sustainable business growth strategies to scale and celebrate specialty coffee. Jessica fundamentally believes that the specialty coffee industry can be a vehicle for local and global change.

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Getting Into Grocery
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Getting Into Grocery

While many cafés and coffee businesses have seen a drop in business, grocery is going strong.

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Pivoting to Online Sales
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Pivoting to Online Sales

Hear from experts in online commerce, including platform developers and coffee companies with strong online sales.

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Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick 2
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Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick 2

As “specialty” and “convenience” no longer seem quite so opposed (especially with the growth of the RTD category), explore how companies balance consumer desire for fast, cheap, and good.

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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 →