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Coffee Roasters Are (or Should Be) Raising Prices. Here’s Some Advice on How

Coffee prices are, in relative terms, really high right now. The ICE arabica futures (a.k.a. the “C price”) eclipsed US$4 per pound earlier this month, continuing a generally upward trajectory...

2025.02.21

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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) Sues Westrock Coffee Over Trade Secrets

Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), the largest dairy farmers cooperative in the United States, filed a federal lawsuit against Arkansas-based coffee and beverage manufacturer Westrock Coffee, alleging theft of trade...

2025.02.19

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The 2024 Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide is Here

The 2024 edition of the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide recently came online, offering buyers and sellers of unroasted specialty coffee a data-backed resource for pricing discovery. Data from 100,000+ Contracts...

2025.02.19

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Missouri AG’s Sues Starbucks, Cites ‘More Female and Less White’ Workforce

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against Starbucks Coffee Company last week, alleging unlawful hiring practices tied to diversity and inclusion. In one particularly coarse assertion of fact in...

2025.02.18

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Missouri AG’s Sues Starbucks, Cites ‘More Female and Less White’ Workforce

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against Starbucks Coffee Company last week, alleging unlawful hiring practices tied to diversity and inclusion. In one particularly coarse assertion of fact in...

2025.02.18

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Coffee Science Foundation and ZHAW Launch Defects Research Project

With funding from the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), the Coffee Science Foundation (CSF) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) just launched a new research project on green coffee...

2025.02.10

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The Price of Coffee is All Over the News, But What Is the Price of Coffee?

The relatively high price of coffee is the stuff of headlines in financial, mainstream and trade publications these days, which begs one fundamental question: What is the price of coffee? For...

2025.02.07

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Making Coffee Pods Recyclable is One Thing; Getting Them Recycled is Another

[Note: This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.] There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing...

2025.01.31

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Subscription Service Podium Coffee Club Champions Award-Winning Roasters

A new online specialty coffee subscription service called Podium Coffee Club is sending customers roasts exclusively from companies that have won national roasting awards from one of three different sources. ...

2025.01.30

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Office Coffee Giant Eurest Rolls Out Direct Coffee Brand

Office foodservice and catering company Eurest USA recently rolled out a coffee brand of its own called Direct Coffee Roasters. The coffee behind the name is developed through a partnership...

2025.01.29

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