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Share your thoughts on tea sustainability
T&CTJ and Firsd Tea have collaborated to create what we believe is the ‘first of its kind’ tea survey to gauge perceptions of sustainability in the global tea industry among business leaders in the tea, coffee, cocoa, and wine sectors.
Final days to share your opinion on tea sustainability
The survey, a collaboration between T&CTJ and Firsd Tea, aims to assess views of sustainability in the global tea industry. The final deadline for responses is 20 February 2022.
Fairtrade issues statement on European Commission proposal on deforestation
Fairtrade welcomes the proposal to create a market for deforestation-free products, but warns that climate measures that exclude fairness and social justice will fail to achieve real climate action.
Coffee price rise continues in November, reaching 10-year high
The ICO’s latest green coffee report reveals that coffee prices and world consumption continued on an upward swing in November.
Sustainability, supply chain, labour shortages contribute to EoL machinery market growth
End of Line (EoL) machinery – a USD $4.42 billion industry – accounts for nearly 47 percent of the United States packaging machinery market with steady growth forecast through 2026, according to the newly released 2021 End-of-Line Equipment Purchasing Trends and Design Insights white paper produced by PMMI Business Intelligence.
India’s Jumboor Estate wins the 2021 Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award
Jumboor Estate in India has been voted ‘Best of the Best’ by an independent panel of international culinary and coffee experts in the 6th Annual Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award (EIICA).
Nigeria officially joins the ICO
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) is welcoming Nigeria as a new member.
Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Buyer’s Guide is now live
The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Buyers Guide has now launched, both within our December 2021 issue and as a dedicated page on this website.
Fostering connections beyond the holiday season
The holiday season presents an opportunity to draw new consumers to your brand and reconnect with past consumers. However; a quick glance at any grocery store shelf or online shop will confirm that consumers have a lot of options to choose from. So how do you make your brand stand out?
Light on a Hill Roasters wins T&CTJ Buyer’s Guide competition
US-based Light on a Hill Roasters has been chosen as the lucky winner in Tea & Coffee Trade Journal’s recently held LinkedIn competition, wining an entry into our 2022 Buyer’s Guide.
Unilever unloads the bulk of its tea business for $5 billion
Unilever PLC announced it is selling most of its global tea business to CVC Capital Partners for €4.5 billion – approximately USD $5 billion.
US announces $6m for coffee leaf rust research
A new four-year, $6 million grant will support coordinated research to address the threat of coffee leaf rust for coffee farmers in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Coffee now available in sustainable vacuum packs from Syntegon
Fully recyclable vacuum packaging – Syntegon processes mono-plastics into aroma-tight packaging. Vacuum packaging for coffee traditionally requires multilayer plastic-aluminum laminates. With the recyclable Mono-PP and Mono-PE – composite films, Syntegon in cooperation with partners Amcor, O.Kleiner and Constantia now presents sustainable solutions for this demanding application for the first time. Mono materials place higher demands […]
Coffee price rise continues in October despite improved weather conditions in Brazil
In October 2021, coffee prices reached new multi-year highs, as the monthly average of the ICO composite indicator price was 181.57US cents/lb, an increase of 6.8% as compared to 170.02 US cents/lb in September 2021.