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Consumers in India already paying more for many essential commodities now need to pay more for their favourite cup of coffee. FMCG companies Nestle India and Hindustan Unilever have raised prices of their coffee brands Nescafe and Bru respectively by 10-12% over the last couple of months, according to retailers and a research report by JP Morgan.The price hikes by FMCG companies come in the wake of a sustained rise in cost of raw materials over last several quarters. Prices of raw coffee have surged globally amid supply hiccups. For instance, price of the most consumed Arabica variety of coffee ...

Small-scale coffee farmers are expected to earn premium prices in world markets with the support of a Netherlands NGO. Solidaridad has offered to work with farmers to implement quality requirements for the produce under the Utz and Fair Trade certification schemes. “Solidaridad gets funds from donors to help smallholder farmers in implementing certification codes,” said Mr Karugu Macharia, the organisation’s regional director. Farmers have in the past blamed certification, which is an expensive affair, for locking them out of the lucrative speciality coffee markets. Certification through Utz, ...

Owning a coffee shop is a of many small business opportunities available. More and more and more people though, are discovering that it's a niche which may be profitable even if the economy is on a downturn. The respected on-line magazine Slate recently reported that 90% of coffee house start ups were making money, a record that other market sectors are only able to take a look at with envy. This isn't to express owning a coffee shop is definitely an automatic licence to print money! However, with a few thought and some planning a new launch has every chance of becoming a big part of your community ...

Applying caffeine to the skin in sunny weather may protect against a type of skin cancer, US researchers hope. Experiments on mice, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that caffeine prevents UV damage. Tumours took longer to develop and there were fewer of them, the study reports. But other experts warned there could be an adverse affect on other cancers by using caffeine in this way. The researchers did not apply caffeine to the mice, instead they genetically modified the animals. Caffeine is known to interfere with a protein involved in detecting DNA ...

Cafe operator Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. announced Thursday that it has priced at $14.25 a share the public offering of 5.15 million shares of common stock held by its major shareholder. The company has about 20.7 million shares outstanding. It won't receive any proceeds from the sale. The offering is expected to close on Aug. 23, the company said in a news release. The shareholder, Caribou Holding Co. Ltd., is an affiliate of Bahrainian investment firm Arcapita Bank BSC. Caribou Holding Co. also is giving the underwriters of the offering an option to buy up to 772,245 additional shares to cover ...

Dunkin‘ Donuts will start selling its coffee in single-serve Keurig cups Wednesday, beating rival Starbucks Corp. to the market in a fast-growing portion of the coffee business. The K-Cups can be used in Keurig brewing systems, which have gained popularity in offices and homes. The company that makes them, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., first announced its partnership with Dunkin‘ Donuts in February. Since then, it has also announced agreements with Starbucks Corp. and ConAgra Foods...

For coffee lovers, there are few things more appealing than being met in the early a.m. hours by a perfectly brewed pot of coffee. That first cup sets the mood for your entire day, doesn't it? If it's brewed up right, you'll feel that extra zing in your step from morning till night. However, if that first cup is too strong or too weak, too hot or not hot enough, you quickly find yourself spiraling into a first-class coffee crisis.So, how do you avoid a coffee catastrophe? It's simple, buy the best coffee maker on the market made especially for your coffee-drinking needs! Sounds simple enough, ...

IN 2010, Americans ordered 500 million iced coffee drinks in restaurants and cafes, up from 400 million in 2006, according to data from the market research firm NPD Group.But marketers have done little to cater to those who want to make iced coffee at home, even though 73 percent of coffee consumed in the United States is prepared at home, according to data from the National Coffee Association, a trade group. Now efforts to promote iced coffee consumption at home are beginning to percolate....

The seeds produced by the coffee plant are the coffee beans. Though these are referred to as beans they are not really beans in the true botanical sense of the word. The coffee plant bears red or purple fruits which are also called cherries or berries of coffee and the stone that lies inside is the ‘bean’ which is the source of coffee. Two stones lying with their flat sides together usually constitute the coffee bean. It is from this bean that coffee is produced that can be used to produce a variety of coffee beverages like espresso, latte and cappuccino using the right coffee makers- espresso ...

There are lots of folk who spend their lunch hour in coffee shops who have come to ask the question, does coffee make you gain weight". This is because they put on weight and believe the urban myth that the coffee is to blame.Well, as someone once said, "It all depends on what you mean" when you talk about coffee. In fact, a medium-sized sugarless black coffee checks in at just 18 calories so obviously that's not the culprit which causes weight gain. However many of the more exotic coffees complete with a dollop of cream can contain as many as 500 - 600 calories. As well, order a flapjack or ...

According to a latest report by Loveland Reporter of Herald, the local coffee shops are now thinking to increase the price at each cup of coffee that they sell. Although they do not want their customers, who are caffeine-driven, to pay even a penny more for the daily sustenance, but the coffee shops owners are finding it difficult to manage selling coffee to their customers at the same old rate. The reason of rising prices of coffee is due to the bad weather in the regions where coffee beans...

Coffee exports from Uganda, Africa’s second-largest producer of the crop, may this month climb 13 percent from last year to 265,000 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags, according to the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.The forecast is 4.6 percent higher than the 253,270 bags exported last month, the authority official, who declined to be named because he isn’t authorized to speak to the press, wrote in an e-mail today.A secondary harvesting in the central and eastern regions, as well as the main crop in the western and southwestern regions has picked up momentum earlier than usual, according to ...

The recent increase in green coffee has its roots in many factors. The situation is not likely to improve anytime soon as chains such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts are increasing the price of their retail coffee lines – in some instances by as much as 17 and 38 percent. This is all happening while consumers are demanding higher quality coffee – and more of it – than ever before. For fast casual operators, who have made concerted efforts to improve their in-store coffee experiences, the...

Men should drink coffee regularly to avoid developing prostate cancer, according to a major study published Wednesday. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health said men who drink coffee on a daily basis are around 20 to 60 percent less likely to develop any form of the disease—with a higher intake linked to a lower risk. The men least likely to develop lethal prostate cancer were those drinking six or more cups of coffee a day, but even those drinking no more than three cups a day...

The espresso machine is a unique coffee-making machine. It specializes in producing only the perfect cup of rich, creamy and frothy Italian espresso coffee drinks. The technique used to brew espresso coffee is very specific.An espresso machine uses a brewing method that forces hot water through ground coffee under high pressure, the water is then forced through the fine ground coffee. The pressure can be generated by a pressure pump or by steam. Pressure mounted pump espresso machines are the best because they provide the most consistent pressure at the optimal brewing temperature. The water ...