https://dailycoffeenews.com/author/brownderby/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:25:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 23960308 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/07/catalyst-trade-hosting-inaugural-ethiopian-innovation-lots-auction/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/07/catalyst-trade-hosting-inaugural-ethiopian-innovation-lots-auction/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:07:58 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171849 Portland, Oregon-based green coffee company Catalyst Trade is hosting its first ever online coffee auction, focused on high-quality microlot coffees sourced from Ethiopia.  Under the name Ethiopia Innovation Lots, the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/07/catalyst-trade-hosting-inaugural-ethiopian-innovation-lots-auction/feed/ 0 171849 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/07/farmer-brothers-hires-john-moore-to-lead-coffee-operation/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/07/farmer-brothers-hires-john-moore-to-lead-coffee-operation/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:07:00 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171837 Texas-based full-service coffee company Farmer Brothers has tapped longtime coffee professional John Moore to drive its coffee operations.  As vice president and head of coffee, Moore will lead green coffee...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/07/farmer-brothers-hires-john-moore-to-lead-coffee-operation/feed/ 0 171837 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/06/fair-trade-usa-freezing-price-minimums-plans-to-revise-model/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/06/fair-trade-usa-freezing-price-minimums-plans-to-revise-model/#comments Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:36:51 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171764 Fair Trade USA is putting a freeze on minimum prices and price premiums for all green coffee sold under its Fair Trade Certified seal through the end of 2023.  The move...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/06/fair-trade-usa-freezing-price-minimums-plans-to-revise-model/feed/ 4 171764 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/05/grit-coffee-grows-in-virginia-with-richmond-opening/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/05/grit-coffee-grows-in-virginia-with-richmond-opening/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:32:59 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171548 After nearly 15 years of growing its coffee business in Charlottesville, Virginia, Grit Coffee has opened in the craft beverage hotbed of Scott’s Addition in Richmond. Surrounded by breweries, distilleries,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/05/grit-coffee-grows-in-virginia-with-richmond-opening/feed/ 0 171548 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/30/fairgrounds-worlds-fair-is-fueling-a-metroburb-in-chicagoland/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/30/fairgrounds-worlds-fair-is-fueling-a-metroburb-in-chicagoland/#respond Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:44:23 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171363 In a sure sign that we are living in the future and that all that was old is new again, Chicagoland’s first “metroburb” is now open, with regional chain Fairgrounds...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/30/fairgrounds-worlds-fair-is-fueling-a-metroburb-in-chicagoland/feed/ 0 171363 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/29/new-wcr-research-outlines-innovation-crisis-in-green-coffee/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/29/new-wcr-research-outlines-innovation-crisis-in-green-coffee/#comments Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:40:14 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171651 A new white paper published by the nonprofit World Coffee Research (WCR) suggests research and development (R&D) funding in the coffee sector continues to be woefully short if roasters and...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/29/new-wcr-research-outlines-innovation-crisis-in-green-coffee/feed/ 1 171651 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/22/ico-commissioning-living-income-studies-in-four-key-coffee-countries/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/22/ico-commissioning-living-income-studies-in-four-key-coffee-countries/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:38:45 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171470 The International Coffee Organization (ICO) is commissioning a series of living-income benchmarking studies focused on small-scale farmers in the key coffee-growing countries of Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico and Vietnam. The studies...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/22/ico-commissioning-living-income-studies-in-four-key-coffee-countries/feed/ 0 171470 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/20/naturally-decaffeinated-coffee-plant-study-enters-decisive-stage-in-brazil/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/20/naturally-decaffeinated-coffee-plant-study-enters-decisive-stage-in-brazil/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:04:56 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171334 Researchers in Brazil are entering a decisive stage in a decades-long study designed to produce coffee plants with seeds that have little to no caffeine. In an announcement last week,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/20/naturally-decaffeinated-coffee-plant-study-enters-decisive-stage-in-brazil/feed/ 0 171334 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/14/fairwave-acquires-milwaukees-anydone-coffee-roasting-co/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/14/fairwave-acquires-milwaukees-anydone-coffee-roasting-co/#respond Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:13:55 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171243 [Note: This story has been updated to fix a typo in the headline.] Building upon a wave of acquisitions, Kansas City, Missouri-based FairWave Holdings has acquired longtime Milwaukee roaster and...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/14/fairwave-acquires-milwaukees-anydone-coffee-roasting-co/feed/ 0 171243 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/13/nkg-acquires-green-coffee-companies-nordic-approach-and-tropiq/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/13/nkg-acquires-green-coffee-companies-nordic-approach-and-tropiq/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:56:56 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171198 Multinational coffee trading and development group Neumann Kaffe Gruppe (NGK) has acquired Norwegian specialty coffee trading company Nordic Approach and its sibling company Tropiq. The financial terms of the acquisition...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/13/nkg-acquires-green-coffee-companies-nordic-approach-and-tropiq/feed/ 0 171198