https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/coffee-beans/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:51:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 23960308 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/08/mercon-coffee-group-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:08:37 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175309 Multinational green coffee trading company Mercon Coffee Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States on Wednesday. The move was precipitated days earlier by the unexpected suspension of...]]> 175309 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/06/australian-researchers-develop-a-coffee-character-wheel/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:07:25 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175196 New research funded by an Australian government agricultural agency has produced the “Coffee Character Wheel,” a cupping tool designed to more thoroughly describe or identify coffee with the concept of...]]> 175196 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/05/major-ico-green-coffee-report-notes-growing-americas-and-shrinking-rest-of-the-world/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:18:01 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175190 The International Coffee Organization (ICO) has released its second Coffee Report and Outlook, including a broad overview of the global coffee sector in terms of production and consumption, economic analysis...]]> 175190 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/05/ico-and-sca-sign-mou-in-support-of-global-coffee-industry/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:50:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175177 The top brass of the International Coffee Organization and the Specialty Coffee Association convened on Dec. 1 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining the organizations’ shared commitments to...]]> 175177 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/04/cup-of-excellence-launching-origin-immersion-program-in-el-salvador/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:46:16 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175146 The nonprofit Cup of Excellence (COE) is launching a multi-day education program designed for international coffee professionals to be immersed in the coffees and cultures of specific coffee-producing countries. In...]]> 175146 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/29/al-liu-to-lead-sustainable-harvests-expansion-of-lets-talk-coffee/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:04:49 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175071 Green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest plans to expand its progressive and influential Let’s Talk Coffee event series under the direction of longtime specialty coffee professional Al Liu. In an...]]> 175071 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/28/nkg-enlists-satelligence-for-deforestation-monitoring/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:24:46 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175037 As the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) compliance deadline draws nearer, multinational green coffee trading company Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is partnering with the Dutch deforestation monitoring firm Satelligence. Satelligence’s satellite-based...]]> 175037 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/27/three-questions-with-rwandan-coffee-expert-laetitia-mukandahiro/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:08:31 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174895 In a sunny yellow room with a large coffee taster’s flavor wheel on one wall and a branded jute bag on the opposite wall, Laetitia Mukandahiro and Uzziel Habimana of...]]> 174895 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/22/kona-coffee-farmers-and-kroger-accuse-each-other-of-breaching-13-5-million-settlement/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:57:05 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174924 In a case that has produced more than 900 court documents and more than $5.8 million in attorneys’ fees since 2019, lawyers representing a group of coffee producers in Hawaii...]]> 174924 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/22/three-questions-with-aimerance-merveille-of-semilla-coffee/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:53:19 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174654 Aimerance Merveille can recall childhood days in the Democratic Republic of Congo — wearing her favorite red floral dress, watching her brothers play soccer, daydreaming.  Yet while other children were...]]> 174654