4 STiR coffee and tea / Issue 1, 2019 (February / March)
Contents:
34
Asia Accelerates
36
Virginia's Coffee
Port of Call
News & Views
8
Point of View
Virtual Top Shelf in an Endless Aisle
10 UpFront
CBD Claims Face FDA Scrutiny
SCA Tackles Coffee Pricing Crisis
46
China'sCoffee Preferences
STiR Coffee and Tea
Vol 8 No 1 February / March 2019
12 News
Coffee Prices Slowly Edging Up
Striking Sri Lanka Workers Settle
Bart Becht Departs JAB Holding Co.
Melbourne Will Host WBC in 2020
14 Equipment News
Groupe SEB Acquires Wilbur Curtis
Tata Buys Sewtech Tea Line
Modbar Rolls out Steam
Evoca Upgrades Gaggia Milano
56 What's Next in STiR?
57
Events Calendar
58
Advertisers' Index
Approvals are in place to expand the Port of Virginia by 2020, giving this
coffee and tea hub the deepest shipping channel on the US Atlantic coast.
28
Wild Coffee in Jeopardy
Kew researchers warn all 124 Ethiopian species are endangered
30
Trade Jitters by Dan Bolton
Uncertainty prevails among traders despite record exports
40
The Coffee Nation by Kelly Stein
Brazil's coffee surplus offers a strategic advantage in 2019
China is discovering specialty coffee at a pace and level of sophistication
equal to Japan and South Korea, but with distinct preferences in taste.
Coffee culture is taking root very rapidly in Asia says importer Henry Yeo,
founder of Singapore-based Young In Specialty Coffee Traders.
Yannis Apostolopoulos
Wilbur Curtis
Henry Yeo