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No ordinary barista: M&S hospitality chief Jason Danciger
Chef, coffee fanatic and M&S hospitality boss Jason Danciger has big plans for its catering future, with an Olympic store and more upmarket expansion on the way. Sue Scott reports
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Focus On Hot Beverages: How much for a cuppa?
Coffee and tea are becoming more sophisticated as suppliers drive premiumisation, but commodity pressures threaten to make brands even more expensive, says Nick Hughes
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Focus On Hot Beverages: Coffee Nation hits the campus
The consumer desire for quality coffee on the go has played into the hands of Coffee Nation, which attempts to replicate a typical coffee shop offer in a vending machine format.
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Focus On Hot Beverages: Enthusiasm for infusions
With volumes of black tea in long-term decline, tea suppliers are looking to less mainstream varieties to drive top-line growth.
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Focus On Breakfast: Tea hit by fewer promotions while coffee comes back home
While Britain is still a nation of tea drinkers, with tea accounting for half of everything drunk at breakfast hot or cold, this could be slowly changing.
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Commodities: Demand for robusta beans set to push up cost of instant
As the global appetite for instant coffee grows, the rising cost of robusta beans can be expected to bring with it price hikes, reports Mintec’s Robert Miles
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Careers File: The website that organises your tea round and heralds a new management style
I have solved one of the age-old dilemmas of office politics: who should make the tea. Gone are the days of Mad Men's Don Draper sending the sole female team member - Peggy Olsen - off to make the refreshments. No, today we have equality in the form of social ...
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Careers File: My CEO offered me cocaine with my coffee
I'm a non-executive director working with an excellent CEO. He invited me to his home for dinner recently, and at the end...
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Commodities: Price hikes set to push up cost of builders’ tea
Supply issues with tea and sugar have prompted price hikes that are likely to make their way down to consumers, reports Mintec's Liliana Gonzalez
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Wake-up call for Nescafé
Paul Grimwood is pumping £43m into reviving the instant coffee as he re-energises Nestlé UK, says Adam Leyland
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Commodities: Shortages of tea and coffee push up commodity prices
With the commodity prices of Kenyan tea up 21% and Sri Lankan tea up 25%, the big brands are busy pushing promotional activity to shore up sales. James Ball reports
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Brewing in new sectors
Recession? Pah! Coffee Nation has seized the moment to launch new machines and conquer a caffeine-loving market. Beth Phillips reports
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Can Packer's plans really put the 'oo' back into Typhoo?
With £48m of debt, loss-making Typhoo looks to be in hot water but CEO Keith Packer says he can make the business break even in 18 months, writes Chloe Smith
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Advertising: PG Tips puts £1.6m into pyramid ad
The tea and coffee category has been a hotbed of activity since the start of the year, with big spenders Kenco and PG Tips investing more than a million pounds each in an attempt to exploit the cold weather and the staying-in trend
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Commodities: Drop in trading and costs grinds down price of coffee
Commodity coffee prices are finally falling after a long period of sustained growth, reports Mintec's Andrew Larkham
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Advertising: The battle for autumn’s top cuppa begins
Things have hotted up in the tea and coffee sector over the past few weeks. Advertising spend across the category has tripled to more than £3.2m compared with the same period last year. Yet, before this period, spend had been tracking at about 25%...