STiR coffee and tea magazine

56 STiR coffee and tea / Issue 3, 2018 (June / July) Emerson Leonard Sales Director What's the STiR in the next issue... • Logistics • Coffee Ports • Conveyors/Lifts • Middle East Coffee • • Producer Focus: East Africa • Decaffeination • Warehousing • • UK Coffee Culture • Keeping Your Roaster Squeaky Clean • Sherri Johns Coffee Correspondent Contributors Si is a certified tea artist and tea sommellier. She divides her time between Beijing and Canada. Si Chen Correspondent & Translator US-based Emerson is director of sales at October Multimedia representing STiR and COTECA Boonthin is director of October Inter Co. Ltd. and the liaison with STiR's Bangkok, Thailand service providers. Glenn has many years of experience as editor and publisher at international trade magazines, including those for the coffee and tea industries founding Tea & Coffee Asia in 1999, and STiR in 2012. Before joining STiR, Dan edited Specialty Coffee Retailer and was editor of World Tea News and Tea Magazine's publisher. He edits Tea Journey for tea enthusiasts lives in Winnipeg, Canada. Art director Somjait Thitasomboon beautifully puts together STiR from sunny southern California. S T A F F Boonthin Tubsongkroh Director Dan Bolton Managing Editor Glenn Anthony John Founding Editor Somjait Thitasomboon Art Director Peter GW Keen Tea Correspondent Peter is a noted business professor and writer who has authored two books on tea. Sherri is a coffee consultant and author who lives in Portland, Ore. Shem Omanga Oirere Correspondent Shem is a newspaper journalist with a love for coffee and tea. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Dan is Portland, Oregon-based and explores all aspects of the coffee industry. Dan Shryock Coffee Correspondent

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