4 STiR coffee and tea / Issue 2, 2019 (April / May)
Contents:
36
Roasters that
Pay a Fair Price
42
Tea Drones
News & Views
8
Point of View
Transparent Pricing of Coffee
10 UpFront
- Starbucks Anchors New Venture Fund
- FNC Intends to Disengage from C-Market
46
Bimodal Grind
STiR Coffee and Tea
Vol 8 No 2 April / May 2019
12 News
- Thai Specialty Winners Top $400 a Pound
- India-Pakistan Tea Trade Retaliation
- Researchers Endorse Shade-Grown Coffee
- Burger King Offers $5 Coffee Subscription
14 Equipment News
- Colombian Handheld Coffee Harvester
- Royal Cup Automates Receiving
- Sugimoto's New Matcha Factory
64 What's Next in STiR?
65
Events Calendar
66
Advertisers' Index
Drones are becoming the workhorses of tea with multiple applications from
spraying plant protection chemicals and fertilizer to ferrying plucked leaves
26
Gourmet Coffee Reaches Record Penetration
US consumer survey shows growing preference for quality coffee
32
MPE: Perfecting the Grind
First in situ roller grinder for capsule and pod manufacture
40
Transparent Trade
Transaction Guide benchmarks special coffee prices
Neuhaus Neotec's three-phase coffee grinder is designed to optimize dis-
tribution of grinds in a wide range of coffee capsules
Roasters respond to pricing crisis with suggestions on what buyers can do
to change the current dynamic