CHAM, Switzerland & DORDRECHT, Netherlands - Selecta Group B.V. (“Selecta”), a leading European vending and coffee services provider, and Pelican Rouge Group B.V. (“Pelican Rouge”), a long established coffee services and vending company, today announced that they have signed an agreement to combine their operating businesses.
COLLEGE STATION, TX, U.S. – A new coffee variety called Starmaya may dramatically shift prospects for coffee producers in the years to come. Starmaya is the first variety of its kind: An F1 hybrid that is propagated by seed, rather than through costly biotechnology. What it could mean for coffee producers is widespread access to an elite class ...
BRUXELLES, Belgium – The great photographer Steve McCurry will be the protagonist - from March 4th to June 26th - of the exhibition with over 200 pieces showcased in Bruxelles’ Palais de la Bourse: a unique occasion to discover the world of one of the masters of modern photography.
SEATTLE, U.S. – Starbucks Coffee Company will be developing a visitor center on the grounds of its wholly owned coffee farm, Hacienda Alsacia. Purchased almost four years ago, Hacienda Alsacia is located in Costa Rica on the slopes of the Poas volcano and serves as a global Research and Development facility and working farm for Starbucks.
LONDON, UK – In the race to be first, Costa Coffee has launched a new social marketing campaign using Snap Inc's wearable camera glasses, Spectacles, to give fans a teaser of the product before it launches in the UK. The campaign from AnalogFolk will take Snapchatters behind-the-scenes of its cafes to show how baristas make coffee ...
MIAMI, FL, U.S. – Nine billion difficult-to-recycle, plastic K-Cups were sold in 2015 alone, creating a circle around the earth ten times if placed end to end.(1) Duplicate this year over year and contemplate the ramifications. Regarding his creation of the Keurig machine, inventor John Sylvan stated, “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
WASHINGTON, U.S. – I started drinking coffee in grad school but I didn’t enjoy it until I discovered Ethiopian coffee. Its characteristics were distinct from the scorched, flavored blends I was used to, and it came from a place rather than a company, which made it seem more real.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – THE Papua New Guinea Government is expected to announce measures this week to fight the coffee berry borer which threatens the K700 million (US$220 million) industry in the Highlands. Agriculture and Livestock Minister Tommy Tomscoll is expected to make the announcement and invoke ...
MILAN, Italy – Meeting on March 9th, the Board of Directors of Autogrill S.p.A. examined and approved the consolidated financial statements and the Company’s draft financial statements for 2016 a long with the corporate governance report and the remuneration report for 2016.
BASILDON, Essex, UK – UK Coffee shop chain Costa is inaugurating today (March 13) a state-of –the art coffee roastery, a facility which the company claims is "one of the most sustainable industrial buildings in the world" as well as “Europe’s biggest coffee roastery”. The new plant in Basildon, Essex ...