https://dailycoffeenews.com/author/brownderby/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:06:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/20/portlands-futura-coffee-roasters-brings-regenerative-focus-to-east-coast/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:13:21 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175483 With direct ties to Colombian specialty coffee and a proactive economic approach to environmental stewardship, Oregon-based Futura Coffee Roasters has expanded to the east coast. The growing Futura leadership team...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/20/wyomings-pine-coffee-supply-spruces-up-the-boise-coffee-scene/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:50:32 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175281 Pine Coffee Supply, a quality-obsessive coffee company born in small-town Wyoming, has found a second home in the relatively big city of Boise, Idaho. The Pinedale, Wyoming-based coffee roasting company...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/19/mill-city-roasters-launches-2-kilo-electric-roaster-the-mcr-2e/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:20:09 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175514 Minneapolis-based roasting equipment maker Mill City Roasters has launched the MCR-2E, the company’s largest and most advanced electric-heat roaster to date.  The 2-kilo-capacity MCR-2E pairs UL-listed 5,000 watt heating elements...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/15/chobani-buys-la-colombe-coffee-for-900-million/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:45:40 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175492 New York State-based packaged yogurt giant Chobani has acquired Philadelphia-born coffee company La Colombe for $900 million. The deal follows nearly a decade’s worth of interest in the coffee company...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/15/mill-city-roasters-launches-roastpath-software-and-sharing-platform/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:07:29 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175443 Minneapolis-based coffee roasting equipment company Mill City Roasters this month officially launched RoastPath, a software package and community-focused platform for coffee roasters that’s six years in the making. Core features...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/14/labor-board-complaint-asks-starbucks-to-reopen-23-stores/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:55:04 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175454 A consolidated complaint from the National Labor Relations Board has urged Starbucks to immediately reopen 23 stores that workers alleged were shut down in order to discourage unionization efforts. According...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/13/legal-dispute-between-montana-coffee-traders-and-ghost-town-goes-public/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:29:13 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175426 A legal issue that has quietly simmered between two Montana coffee roasting companies since May spilled into the public sphere this week, with both companies saying they’ve received negative backlash....]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/13/finnish-researchers-pushing-for-cellular-agriculture-in-coffee/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:15:30 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175398 Scientists in Finland have shed new light on the process of making, roasting and analyzing lab-grown cellular coffee. Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland — a state-owned...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/08/starbucks-asks-for-new-years-resolution-to-reboot-union-talks/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:57:55 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175328 Following months of legal posturing from parties on both sides of the Starbucks unionization push, the coffee giant today sent a letter to the union organizer asking for a reboot...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/08/mercon-coffee-group-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:08:37 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175309 Multinational green coffee trading company Mercon Coffee Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States on Wednesday. The move was precipitated days earlier by the unexpected suspension of...]]>