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... australia’s largest cafe group, the coffee club, will enter the emerging chinese coffee drinking market this month, opening a cafe in the yuexiu district in guangzhou, with a major franchise license sold to the guangzhou golden swan enterprise co ... john lazarou, director of the coffee club, said now is the perfect time for the business to enter china, with a strong coffee culture growing in the country despite most chinese traditionally drinking tea ... 3 billion people, a growing middle class and general elevation of living standards, many tea drinkers are starting to switch to coffee to feel more cultured,” lazarou said ... “reports indicated back in 2006 that chinese coffee drinkers consumed over 45,000 tonnes of coffee beans, with some analysts expecting it to increase by 15 per cent a year,” he said ... “at the moment many chinese coffee drinkers concentrate on where they are drinking coffee, and who they are drinking it with,” lazarou said

... sara lee corp has announced a new five-year initiative aiming to triple its purchases of sustainable coffee, expand partner programs and support the market for sustainable tea ... the company, currently divesting itself of many of its product lines to focus on its coffee business, is speculated to be considering splitting its coffee and processed meats businesses ... “sara lee’s long-term goal is to use only certified coffee and tea in all products worldwide, and this new aggressive five-year plan is a very important step in accelerating our progress,” said frank van oers, chief executive officer of sara lee’s international beverage and bakery businesses ... “by providing coffee growers visibility five years out and publicly committing to buy very large quantities of certified coffee we can contribute to improve sustainability in the mainstream coffee market worldwide ... ” by 2015 sara lee said it will have more than 20% of its entire annual coffee volume certified sustainable ... sara lee ranks third worldwide in coffee volume behind nestlé and kraft foods, and ahead of other leading firms such as the j ... in the past five years sara lee has become the world’s largest buyer of utz certified good inside coffee, with cumulative purchases of more than 110 million kilos of the commodity ... the company estimated its sustainability investments could deliver up to us$100 million in income to coffee farmers, their associations and representatives over and above what they would have earned by selling uncertified coffee beans in the open market ... in addition to expanding its sustainable coffee investment, sara lee confirmed their committment to bringing sustainable tea to consumers ... in 2010 sara lee became the first to bring to market utz certified good inside® tea as part of its long-term commitment to achieve full certification ... sara lee is a long-standing member of the ethical tea partnership, an international non-commercial alliance of 20 tea-packers with a vision for a thriving global tea sector that is socially just and environmentally sustainable, and is the main sponsor of the douwe egberts foundation, a multi-million euro investment to improve the living and working conditions of small coffee and tea farmers in countries of origin

... sara lee announced last week that it has signed an agreement to acquire café damasco, a coffee business based in the southern region of brazil ... “the acquisition of café damasco will create a stronger foothold for sara lee in the brazilian territory, given damasco’s strong market position in the southern part of brazil ... “with our current brands pilão and caboclo, we already have a relevant market position in the central regions of sao paulo and rio de janeiro, which account for roughly half of the total brazilian coffee market ... ” brazil is the number one coffee producing country in the world and the second-largest coffee consuming country ... sara lee is the market leader in brazil, offering a variety of brands, including its core coffee brands: pilão, caboclo, café do ponto, moka, and seleto

... gikas cited nestle sa, mcdonald's, coca-cola co and procter & gamble co as some names linked to possible buyout interest in the specialty coffee firm ... "single-cup brewing is a major consumer trend that will lead to short-term and long-term conversion of home coffee brewing, and keurig is, and will continue to be, the leading player in the sector," canaccord genuity's scott van winkle wrote in a note ... vermont-based green mountain -- founded by bob stiller with the proceeds from his 1980 sale of cigarette paper maker e-z wider -- has grown rapidly in large part due to its razor/razor blade business model -- selling coffee machines to consumers at cost so it can then sell its k-cup coffee refills at an attractive margin ... pinheiro reckons suitors are more likely to be beverage firms or a coffee market leader ... coffee company is starbucks corp, which already partners kraft foods inc on tassimo, a rival single-cup brewing machine ... home coffee market ... you have to look at it from their participation in the overall market (not just in single-cup) ... ric rhinehart, executive director of the specialty coffee association of america, said, "it might make sense (for nestle to buy green mountain) because nestle has essentially no roasting ground presence in the u ... market is in soluble coffee

... dealers said the coffee market had attracted strong fund interest this week as arabica prices rallied to a 13-year high and robustas hit a 2-year high on thursday ... dealers said world coffee production may fall short of expectations if key growers including colombia and vietnam revise output figures lower ... december arabica coffee broke above the key psychological level of $2 ... liffe january robusta coffee was down $15 or 0 ... technical indicators based on historic price data show arabica coffee may have further upside yet ... 0720 per lb for new york coffee is unchanged, as per a fibonacci projection analysis, reuters analyst wang tao said ... "coffee is one market where we are not as positive on a one-year basis than we are in a lot of other (commodity) markets

... ice cocoa was lower as the market consolidated after last week's weaker-than-expected third-quarter grindings data, dealers said ... "we have had genuine fundamental reasons for a strong market, particularly the unusual weather over brazil this year, but the feeling of a general commodity bubble building up is making many neutrals uncomfortable," thomas kujawa at sucden financial said ... "some importers are buying physicals (to lock them in) but are not pricing the futures; most are not even buying the physicals," a european broker said in a daily market report ... the arabica market remained within reach of the 13-year high hit last month of $1 ... ice december arabica coffee futures were up 0 ... "the coffee rally is not as justified as sugar's and the coffee market moves are on very thin volumes," a london-based broker said ... liffe january robusta coffee was up $33 or 2 percent at $1,713 per tonne ... cocoa edged down as the market consolidated following last week's release of north american cocoa grindings, a key measure of demand, which rose by only 1

... "today’s coffee market is going through major changes ... with green coffee prices soaring at a 13 year high, major brands are raising prices in an attempt to maintain profits ... roast of the town coffee, based in raleigh, nc, is taking a different approach ... roast of the town coffee is listening ... raleigh’s roast to order artisan coffee roaster is working on an expansion to add flavored coffees to its line of gourmet coffees in lieu of raising prices", said the company ... thanks to the expansion into flavoured coffee, roast of the town expects to increase its market share and overall sales with its flavor café brand of flavored coffees to offset the decline in profit margins ... according to the firm, 30% of sales in today’s coffee market come from flavoured coffee

... although it is uncommon to see impenetrable monopolistic markets being successfully challenged, ecc has accomplished this feat, having developed and producing a patented coffee capsule compatible with nespresso machines, thereby granting itself access to a massive existing base of 7 million machines ... ecc coffee capsules are currently available in some 600 store locations of the casino retail network, and are the distributor’s best-selling product ... with such momentum, ecc is set to definitively establish itself as a major player in the capsulated coffee market

... the decrease in net income for the three month period primarily reflects an increased cost of sales resulting in part from higher green coffee prices that we were not immediately able to pass on to our customers, which resulted in a decreased gross profit ... the increase in net sales for the three month period reflects increased sales of specialty green coffee to our largest green coffee customers and our acquisition of optco in may 2010 ... the increase in net sales for the nine month period reflects increased sales of both green coffee and private label coffee to our largest customers and the addition of our new wholly owned subsidiary optco in may 2010 ... the increase in cost of sales as a percentage of net sales for the three month period reflects a decrease in net gains on options and futures contracts and an increase in green coffee purchases, partially offset by a decrease in labor costs ... 4 billion organic coffee market, which expanded by 4 ... 1% this past year as compared to 1% estimated growth in the mainstream coffee market ... arabica commodity market which occurred rather suddenly and unexpectedly beginning in june, which is traditionally a weak seasonal period, we anticipate better margins in the fourth quarter as our recently announced price increases will have taken affect during this period

... starbucks has extended distribution of its instant via ready brew line to include a total of over 55,000 grocery stores across japan, canada and the uk, after successful sales of the instant ’stick coffee solution’ in starbucks stores ... supermarkets such as walmart, waitrose, tesco and sainsbury will carry the starbucks instant coffee sticks ... the line includes three flavours of ready brew - colombia, italian roast and decaffeinated italian roast - as well as an iced coffee stick designed to dissolve in cold water ... starbucks identified japan and the uk as particular markets for the via range, as 80% of total coffee sold in the uk is instant, and 60% in japan ... japan’s at-home coffee market drives more than $5 billion in annual sales ... starbucks describe via ready brew as the result of 20 years of development, aiming to create “an instant coffee that tastes as good as its fresh filter coffee and is targeted at coffee lovers who want convenience but find conventional instant is falling short of their expectations