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Spring Festival robot cafe in Tokyo’s Asakusa draws Chinese tourists

Desk3 - February 22, 2018

TOKYO, Japan – Nestle Japan and Ant Financial Services have teamed up to open a Spring Festival-themed robot café in Tokyo's Asakusa district, a...

Companies

SoftBank opens ‘robo cafe’ with humanoid robot Pepper at Tokyo stores

Desk3 - July 24, 2017

TOKYO – Customers at SoftBank Group Corp's three stores in Tokyo can enjoy free coffee served by the telecommunication giant's humanoid robot Pepper, capable of remembering customers' faces and their preference of coffee for their next visits to the stores.

Legislation

India, Vietnam lift import bans on coffee, pepper and other agro-products

Desk3 - March 23, 2017

HANOI, Vietnam – The back-to-back bans have prevented Indian roasters from securing coffee beans while pepper prices in Vietnam have dropped to multi-year lows. India and Vietnam have removed bans issued earlier this month on imports of several key agricultural commodities, including coffee and pepper, the Vietnamese government ...

Legislation

India suspends imports of six Vietnamese agro-products, including coffee

Desk3 - March 9, 2017

HANOI, Vietnam – The move comes after the Vietnamese government's decision to halt five commodities from India. India has suspended the import of six commodities from Vietnam, including coffee beans and black pepper, citing pest infections, India's agriculture ministry said.

Institutions

Vietnam: USDA sees production down 8% in 2016/17

Desk3 - December 7, 2016

WASHINGTON, U.S. - In USDA's semi-annual report on the Vietnamese coffee sector, overall coffee production for MY2015/16 is slightly revised down from about 29.3...

Coffee Machines

Humanoid coffee seller to hit stores this weekend

Desk3 - June 19, 2015

Japan's SoftBank said Thursday that its chatty humanoid robot Pepper would go on sale this weekend, as it announced a deal with China's biggest...

Market & Trade

Vietnam’s coffee growers switch to pepper crops

Desk3 - June 1, 2015

Coffee plantation owners in Vietnam are devoting more land to pepper cultivation with prices of the spice rising eight times faster than those of...

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Nestlé reports 1Q sales of CHF 22.1B (-5,9%) below consensus, Nespresso’s sales at CHF 1.5 B, down by 4.1% year-on-year

Nespresso launching in India, first boutique to open in Delhi