Tea & Coffee Trade Journal articles from April 2003

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal archives from April 2003

Tea & coffee unveils cup service. (From the Editor's Desk).(Editorial)
April 20, 2003... About 15 years ago, I was on one of the SCAA's field trips to Jamaica. Visiting the plantations, seeing coffee grow, and meeting the people who proudly cultivated it, brought invaluable insight into what goes into my coffee cup. On that trip,...

NYMEX and NYBOT sign historic lease agreement. (World News).
April 20, 2003... NEW YORK -- The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), recently signed an historic lease agreement with the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX), to move into its building in the World Financial Center. The NYBOT, which lost its entire 4...

Calendar.
April 20, 2003... April 2 Tea Briefing -- SIAL - Montreal, Quebec. Tea Council/Tea Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario. Tel: (1)(416) 510-8647 Fax: (1)(416) 510-8044 E-mail: info@tea.ca April 2 - 5: Food & Hotel Indonesia 2003,...

Coffee with aloha spirit: the 32nd annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival.
April 20, 2003... If you are lucky enough to find your way to Kona on Hawaii's Big Island, and you rake a drive past the crystal blue waters and lush trees bursting with succulent fruit and brightly-colored flowers, delicate breezes blowing through your hair --...

In support of Coffee Purity.(Coffee Purity Act of 2002 works its way through U.S. Congress)
April 20, 2003... There is a new piece of legislation working its way through Congress, and you should become familiar with it. The Coffee Purity Act of 2002 would define coffee entering the U.S. as containing no more than 86 defects per 350 gram sample for...

Sustainable living world wide: what's the next step?
April 20, 2003... I just returned from attending the National Coffee Association (NCA) Conference in Boca Raton, where I was hoping to experience a presentation that would ignite my inspiration to inform you of something on this subject that is fast becoming...

Rwanda's Bourbon Coffee brings new hope.
April 20, 2003... Launched in January by Community Coffee Co. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and two weeks later in Britain, the Cafe Maraba Bourbon coffee, farmed by survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is bringing new hope to the region. Backed by Fairtrade,...

Cafe de El Salvador: a coffee bean with a history...a legacy of quality...a tradition that works.
April 20, 2003... El Salvador produces coffee of the coffea arabica species only, mainly of traditional varieties. The traditional Arabica, such as the Bourbon and its natural mutation Pacas, which represents 97% of coffee plantations, are characterized by their...

Jointly crafting solutions.
April 20, 2003... Dr. Gabriel Silva, c.e.o. of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, made the following statements during his presentation to the attendees of the National Coffee Association's annual convention that took place in Florida in...

The global coffee industry must work together," Robert Nelson addresses the 92nd annual NCA convention.(National Coffee Association)
April 20, 2003... The absolute necessity of the global coffee industry working together in order to achieve realistic, viable approaches to the long-term and short-term challenges it confronts was the theme of Robert F. Nelson's address to the National Coffee...

Private label: continues to evolve.(Industry Overview)
April 20, 2003... Private label, whether for coffee or tea, is an industry sector that is continuing to evolve and mature. The new paths which have been charted by the largest grocery, discount and membership stores are becoming major thoroughfares of commerce...

Modernizing tea promotion & branding.
April 20, 2003... Randy Altman finds there is a radical increase in the number of tea brands. Companies, from large to small, are promoting more brands than ever before. Launching new brands creates excitement, but market saturation is possible. Altman reports...

Barista primer I. (Cup Service).
April 20, 2003... As much as we'd like to think otherwise, alt baristas are not created equal. So what separates the good from the bad, the weak from the strong, the smooth from the bitter? Proper education and professional training. All too often, espresso...

The Barista shares in ultimate quality. (Cupservice).
April 20, 2003... Stephan Lange, managing director of Probat, takes the view that a barista doesn't simply make coffee. "The perfect preparation of specialties such as espresso, cappuccino etc requires a deeper knowledge of the natural product than just skill at...

Espresso: from Europe to the U.S. and back again. (Cup Service).
April 20, 2003... PART II In Part One of this two-part series, Mauro Cipolla described his views on the changing espresso scene both in the U.S. and Europe. Now he forges through France and Italy, taking stock of their espresso habits -- and bringing back...

Roasting a classic espresso for Rome. (On the Continent: Cub Service).(coffee roasting in Rome)
April 20, 2003... Part Two: Coffee roasting in Rome is a world unto itself. The city and near environs hosts a multitude of roasteries -- they come in all sizes too. Their abundance attests to the thought that quite likely Rome is the espresso coffee consumption...

A global perspective. (Automated Coffee).(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... If we were trying to bring Kipling's poem "East is East and West is West" into today's globalized world, the "twain" would now certainly be meeting all the time, probably over a cup of coffee and maybe even at a Starbucks in Vienna. Times...

Seattle coffee: three roaster/retailers that helped breathe life into the specialty coffee movement. (Cup Service).
April 20, 2003... Amelia Levy takes a quick look at one small-, one medium- and one very large-sized roaster/retailer all headquartered in Seattle. She discovers that each have not only played an integral role in the birth of the U.S. specialty coffee movement,...

A little something sweet on the side. (Cup Service).(beverage companies offer sweet treats to complement drinks)
April 20, 2003... The perfect complement to any beverage is a portable treat. Confections are a great point of purchase, impulse buy. Whether for a take out purchase or in-house consumption, these sweet treats can add a couple of dollars to any sale. Below we...

Pod Pack doubles size of production facility. (Trade News).(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... Pod Pack has recently doubled the size of its Baton Rouge, Louisiana, production facility. "Due to our continued growth, our expansion into other packaging services, and our substantial new production equipment purchases, we felt it was an...

Sao Paulo holds Coffee Quality awards. (Trade News).
April 20, 2003... The ceremony of awards for the First Sao Paulo Coffee Quality Competition was held recently in Santos. The competition was initiated in 2002 and organized as a campaign of the Sao Paulo Coffee Roasters Union, the Sao Paulo Coffee Chamber and...

Learn from the leaders: Tea & Coffee World Cup Rome.
April 20, 2003... June 15-17, 2003 Exhibition Center Rome, Italy WWW.TCWORLDCUP.NET Now that the 2003 Tea & Coffee World Cup Rome Exhibition and Symposium is just around the corner, time is of the essence in registering for the world class tea...

Starbucks' stars. (People News).(names Willard Hay senior vice president)(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... Starbucks has named Willard (Dub) Hay senior vice president, coffee. Hay joined Starbucks last November and assumed the daily responsibilities of managing Starbucks coffee department and green coffee functions in March 2003, and will report to...

Silesia's new VP of sales. (People News).(Silesia International hires Roif Pottschmidt)(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... Silesia International has hired Roif Pottschmidt as vice president of sales. Within his global responsibility, he will also take care of the sales for the U.S. production of SILESIA, located in Chicago, Illinois since 1995. Pottschmidt has...

Branding hot beverage filter paper. (Equipment & Packaging News).(J.R. Crompton (USA) Ltd. launches new Crompton WoW system)(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... Crompton WoW is a new system, which enables teabags and coffee pouches to be printed with a quality image, which becomes clearly visible to the consumer as water is added to their beverage. The system enables brand owners to differentiate their...

Pacific Bag introduces new logo. (Equipment & Packaging News).(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... Pacific Bag, Inc. has updated the company's logo with a vivid design that emphasizes PBI's products and services as an integral part of today's global packaging market. Pacific Bag; Inc., 2045 - 120th Ave. NE, Ste. 100, Bellevue,...

New Web site for K&S. (Equipment & Packaging News).(K&S Kali GmbH)(Brief Article)
April 20, 2003... K&S KALI GmbH has launched a new website (www.kieserite.com) in order to provide information on the mineral compound kieserite, its features and uses as a fertilizer in agriculture. The nutrients, magnesium and sulfur have been increasingly...