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Analysis & Features
Why is Tesco getting all frothy about coffee?
How much potential does the coffee shop market really have for the supermarkets?…
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Analysis & Features
A great year for sport. A washout for grocery...
Exhilarating highs. Crashing lows. With the Jubilee and Olympics on the cards, everyone expected 2012 to be a year of extremes…
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Analysis & Features
Coffee prices still increasing but the peak may be in sight
British tea and coffee lovers have had to swallow double-digit price rises on both beverages in recent years…
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Analysis & Features
Tighter supplies of tea set to loosen in 2013
Tea prices hit the headlines at the start of last month as poor weather in key producing…
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Analysis & Features
Nestlé in pharma-style legal battle to protect Nespresso
A German court ruling has gone against Nestlé, but the Swiss giant is fighting on…
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News
Nespresso-style pods now available in Waitrose
The first range of non-Nespresso branded pods that can be used in Nespresso coffee machines is rolling out to supermarkets.
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Analysis & Features
The human face of Peru's coffee crisis
Climate change is not just threatening the Peruvian coffee industry, it’s jeopardising global supplies. That’s why Cafédirect is acting now to combat it.
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Analysis & Features
Will coffee roasters switch to Arabica as prices fall?
It is the best of times and the worst of times for coffee buyers. Arabica coffee prices have plummeted since the start of the year, but Robusta prices have increased.
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Analysis & Features
Do Brits really care about buying British?
Our exclusive research reveals which brands consumers think are the biggest names in UK fmcg, and what they have voted Britain’s most iconic food and drink.
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Analysis & Features
Commodities: Droughts could mean 2012 is a precarious year for tea
Supplies of tea from Kenya, Sri Lanka and India have fluctuated – but prices have been kept down by a fortunate balancing act. Robert Miles reports
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: David Brooks, sales director, Food Brands Group
David Brooks, sales director at Food Brands Group, on Percol coffee, Yeovil Town and The Price Is Right
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News
Heinz learns messing with a classic brand can leave a bitter aftertaste
Does the public furore aroused by Heinz and Twinings mean brands will always generate bad PR when they reformulate, asks Vince Bamford
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Analysis & Features
Rise of the machine
A shiny Heath Robinson-style tea packing machine reflects the growing success of Only Natural Products as it gets ready to ramp up production further still. Tara Craig reports
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: Marcus Swift, United Coffee
Marcus Swift, commercial director at United Coffee, on the Royal Navy, window seats and his love of Madonna
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: Oscar Woolley, Suki Tea
Oscar Woolley, co-founder of Suki Tea, on flea markets, Belleville Rendez-vous and spiders
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Analysis & Features
Are you being self-served?
Unmanned coffee machines generate up to £40k in sales a year, which is why Costa – and retailers – want a bigger slurp of the action. Virginia Matthews reports
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: Ben Styche, retail controller at Cafédirect
Ben Styche, retail controller at Cafédirect, on life as a tea boy and making a difference to growers’ communities
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News
Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Nescafé to Robinsons
Already Britain’s biggest coffee brand, Nescafé increased its share of the instant coffee market last year, notching up a healthy 3.5% increase in value...
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News
Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Kenco to Comfort
Owner Kraft Foods says the growth of Kenco is down to the Starbucks generation having an appetite for premium coffee, and is now pushing Millicano...
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Comment & Opinion
Children of the revolution
Grocer Towers is often the scene of fearsome debate, as our newshounds compare leads, dissect the strategies of the companies we write about and, most commonly, row about whose turn it is to make the tea.