Coffee

Swiss Coffee Lovers Win Reprieve Over Plans To Scrap Bean Stockpile

The Swiss government has woken up and smelled the coffee, delaying a final decision on its plan to scrap the nation's strategic bean reserve after the prop...

Ample Flowering Seen In Brazil's Top Coffee State, Rains On The Way

Coffee trees all over Brazil's top producing state Minas Gerais have bloomed this week, marking the first major flowering for the new Brazilian c...

Smucker Cuts Full-Year Targets After First-Quarter Earnings Disappoint

J. M. Smucker Co on Tuesday cut its full-year earnings forecast and missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and sales, blaming competition in the...

How Brazil And Vietnam Are Tightening Their Grip On The World's Coffee

A towering machine rumbles through the fields of Julio Rinco's farm in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, engulfing whole coffee trees and shaking free bean...

Nestlé Starts Selling Starbucks-Branded Coffee In China

Food giant Nestlé has commenced selling Starbucks-branded coffee in mainland China, seeking to tap growth in a market where it says coffee consumpti...

Arabica Coffee Prices Seen Rising 14% By Year-End

Arabica coffee prices will rise 14% by the end of 2019, bolstered by strong global demand and Brazil's entry into an off-year in its biennial producti...

Colombia To Create Fund To Rescue Coffee Farmers When Prices Drop

Colombia, the world's top supplier of washed arabica, is creating a special fund to subsidise coffee farmers when production costs fall below international...

Premium Prices Attract Small Farmers Back To Coffee Growing In Zimbabwe

David Muganyura smells the coffee cherries on the slopes of his plot and breaks into a smile, as he chats to workers who are harvesting a crop he expects t...