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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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ProfilesMy 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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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.
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Analysis & FeaturesFairtrade: A fairer share for all
Bananas, Dairy Milk and even condoms (in Waitrose from this week). It’s official – Fairtrade’s gone mainstream. But how much are farmers benefiting? Ahead of Fairtrade Fortnight, Beth Phillips visited a cocoa co-operative in Ghana and Sarah Butler met coffee farmers in Uganda to find out
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Focus On Fairtrade: Innovations
This is the UK's first triple-certified (Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) freeze-dried coffee. It is 100% Peruvian, retailing in Booths for £3.29.
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ProfilesMy alternative CV: Simon Fry, marketing director of RH Amar
Simon Fry, marketing director of RH Amar, on coffee, comedians, and a little sprinkle of stardust
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: Michelle McKenna, Clippy’s Apples
Michelle McKenna, co-founder of Clippy’s Apples, on dreaming, things that wobble and espresso coffee
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ProfilesThe Human Angle: Laura Dawson
Name: Laura Dawson Job title: Coffee account manager Company: Lincoln & York Sales: £9m HQ location: Brigg, North Lincolnshire Number of employees: 40
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NewsMovie Marketing: Why brands are going movie mad
Clipper Tea went to Wonderland, Pom-Bear got cosy with Shrek and Müller dived into Sex and the City 2. The number of movie tie-ups has soared, but who’s chasing them, the brands... or the studios, asks Stuart Smith. When Shrek Forever racked up a cool $70m in its first weekend ...
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News
Focus On Alcoholic Drinks: Four to watch
Beefeater is getting a track record for innovation. Beefeater 24, launched in October 2008, is a super-premium expression that is based on 12 botanicals, including tea, and is steeped for 24 hours.
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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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NewsFocus 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 ...