Coffee Consumer Trends: Inside the NCA’s Fall 2023 Report
Sep 19, 2023 · Here are some of the highlights of the National Coffee Association’s NCDT Fall 2023 report: Overall Consumption. 63% of Americans reported drinking coffee within the past day. That figure is down 2% from the Spring NCDT, though it matches the total from 10 years ago. The Midwest led the way in coffee consumption, with 65% of adults saying ...
Weekly Coffee News: Auctions Galore + US Coffee Market Report
Oct 11, 2024 · Allegra-owned market research and news agency World Coffee Portal released its annual report on the United States coffee shop market, Project Café USA 2025. “Espresso-based beverages are gaining in traction, iced coffee sales are booming, and drive thru concepts are expanding,” the group wrote upon the report’s launch.
What Goes Around: How Coffee Waste Is Fueling a Circular Economy
Oct 9, 2018 · The circular economy traces its origins back to the 1970s, but it is only in the past few years that the concept has taken off, driven in large part by the work of the U.K.-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation.As Goodrich explains it, a circular economy is based on the recognition that “we have to move away from what folks call our linear economy of take-make-waste and envision a next life for ...
2023 US Coffee Consumer Trends: Inside the NCA’s Latest Report
Apr 5, 2023 · Past-day consumption among 18-24-year-olds and 40-59-year-olds remained relatively stable (47% and 67%, respectively) while it increased 1.5% for the 60+ group, to 69%. At-Home Consumption Remains Above Pre-Pandemic Levels. Among all past-day coffee drinkers, 83% reported having coffee at home, up by 4% since January 2020.
Minnesota Company Sues TreeHouse Over Pod Production Secrets
Oct 9, 2024 · A Minneapolis company called Microtrace is accusing private-label food manufacturing giant TreeHouse Foods of “reverse engineering” proprietary technology used to identify Keurig-style coffee pods.. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 30 in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, Microtrace alleges that Chicago-area-based TreeHouse, its subsidiary Bay Valley Foods, and a third party, ProAmpac Holdings ...
BestCup Spins The Hi-Fi Coffee Pod, a Specialty K-Cup Reinvention
Oct 9, 2024 · Salt Lake City-based coffee co-packing startup BestCup is offering a new approach to Keurig-style brewing with a compostable pod product called the Hi-Fi Coffee Pod.. Featuring an open-bottom filter design, a proprietary grinds refinement process and more coffee loaded per pod than conventional K-Cups, Hi-Fi pods are optimized to provide what BestCup considers a more pourover-like cup.
Private-Label Specialist Cascade Coffee Has New Investor
Oct 8, 2024 · Everett, Washington-based Cascade Coffee, one of the largest coffee roasting and packaging companies in the United States, has received an undisclosed investment from Chicago-based investment firm LaSalle Capital.. The private-label coffee company, which maintains six roasting lines and 11 automated packaging lines within its 150,000-square-foot factory outside Seattle, will continue to be led ...
Design Details: Suspended Trees at Multilevel LAPH Cafe in Vietnam
Oct 10, 2024 · Welcome to Design Details, an ongoing editorial feature in Daily Coffee News focused on individual examples of coffee shop architecture, interior design, packaging design or branding.If you are a coffee shop owner, designer or architect and would like to submit your project for consideration, reach our editors here. Design Details: LAPH Cafe
Report: China’s Largest Coffee Chain Luckin Prepping US Launch
Oct 29, 2024 · Chinese coffee giant Luckin Coffee is planning a small-scale launch in the United States, less than four years after the company agreed to a $180 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over fraud charges.. The Financial Times first reported the Xiamen-based company’s ambitions for the U.S. market. Citing “two people with knowledge of the matter,” the ...
New CEO for New York-Based Coffee Chain Bluestone Lane
Oct 29, 2024 · New York City-based coffee chain Bluestone Lane is getting a new CEO at the end of this month, as longtime hospitality executive Edie Ames takes over for founder Nicholas Stone. Stone, who founded Bluestone Lane in 2013 during his career as an investment banker, plans to adopt the role of executive chairman, according to the company.