https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/company-news/corporate/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:09:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 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/2023/12/07/sucafina-subsidiary-beyers-koffie-building-all-electric-industrial-roastery/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:11:19 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175264 Belgian private-label coffee roasting company Beyers Koffie is creating what is likely to be the world’s largest all-electric industrial roastery. According to green coffee trading company Sucafina — the roaster’s...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/05/ico-and-sca-sign-mou-in-support-of-global-coffee-industry/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:50:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175177 The top brass of the International Coffee Organization and the Specialty Coffee Association convened on Dec. 1 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining the organizations’ shared commitments to...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/01/carhartt-wip-and-rocket-espresso-collaborate-for-limited-release-machine/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:54:24 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175123 Italian espresso machine maker Rocket Espresso and Carhartt WIP have collaborated for a limited-edition collection that includes an espresso machine, grinder and apparel. The machines and merch launched for sale...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/28/swiss-startup-mikafi-reveals-the-iot-driven-mikafione-electric-roaster/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:24:01 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174980 A Switzerland-based coffee roasting and technology startup called Mikafi recently revealed its electric roasting machine, the MikafiOne.  Designed for small-batch commercial applications, the machine comes integrated with an IoT platform...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/27/here-are-three-new-world-coffee-champions-plus-final-rankings/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:06:48 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174990 The Specialty Coffee Association released the final rankings of last week’s World Coffee Championship events in Taipei, Taiwan. Held in conjunction with the Taiwan International Coffee Show, the three events...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/22/kona-coffee-farmers-and-kroger-accuse-each-other-of-breaching-13-5-million-settlement/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:57:05 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174924 In a case that has produced more than 900 court documents and more than $5.8 million in attorneys’ fees since 2019, lawyers representing a group of coffee producers in Hawaii...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/16/howard-schultz-part-of-20-3-million-seed-for-pod-based-cold-coffee-startup-cumulus/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:52:47 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174880 New York-based home coffee equipment startup Cumulus Coffee Company announced today that it raised $20.3 million in seed funding while preparing to bring its home cold coffee machine to market. ...]]>