I happen to be a coffee aficionado (or snob, depending on your view) and have made espresso myself with my reliable old Sunbeam for quite some years. I’ve had this espresso machine just over 10 years, had others before it and used a variety of other methods over the decades too. Persona ...

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No more worries about the warranty, the machine breaking or — worst of all — a botched cup of coffee. After years of surrounding its coffee machines and their pods with patents, Nespresso agreed Thursday to open up to knockoff capsules to competitors around the world. The pods, whose profit mar ...

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(Reuters) – Nestle’s Nespresso capsule coffee business has bowed to pressure from French competition authorities and agreed to make it easier for competitors, even outside of France, to produce coffee pods compatible with its machines. Nespresso, which reported underlying sales gr ...

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Nestlé has announced plans to spend $550 million by 2020 to improve the environmental and social impact of Europe’s biggest single-serve coffee brand, Nespresso. The investment “includes securing access to the one to two percent of coffee produce in the world that meets our strict quali ...

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FIRE crews called to smoke coming from The Wallingford Tea and Coffee Co Ltd in St Martins Street found an overheating coffee roaster.  They were called by residents living above the cafe at about 8.20pm yesterday and went in wearing breathing apparatus.  A spokesman ...

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The NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto® Team has joined with global recycling and upcycling pioneers TerraCycle® on a programme to recycle used coffee capsules. TerraCycle is the world leader in developing solutions for recycling “un-recyclable” items and has kept more than 2.6 billion pieces of was ...

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Nestle-owned Nespresso, the world’s market leader of pod coffee, has announced a plan to invest £328 million (CHF 500 million) in the coming six years in the sustainability program aptly called “The Positive Cup.” Besides raising the standards for sustainably sourced coffee from African community fa ...

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When Keurig announced its new Keurig 2.0, it came with more than just the ability to brew larger 900mL K-Carafe cups. It also came with measures to ensure only Keurig-approved cups could be used. Those measures didn’t work. The new security precaution involved the use of some sort of s ...

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Latin America produces around 70 percent of the world’s coffee, but there is a hidden price we have to pay in threats to clean environments and community health. Coffee production generates a great amount of wastewater, which is released untreated into rivers, affecting aquatic f ...

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A few years ago I used this column to bring you, my readers, word of what was then the most expensive coffee in the world. Called Kopai Luwak, it was made from beans that had been eaten, digested and excreted by a small furry creature called the civet. Advertisement The theory, ...

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Earlier this year, we wrote about Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, maker of the infamous Keurig single cup coffee makers, and its plan to DRM its next generation coffee pods. The original pods were going off patent, and competition was rising. So, of course, the solution is to come up with something ...

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Marley Coffee and Bevyz Sign Agreement to Produce and Market Marley Coffee Hot, Cold and Sparkling Drink Capsules Bevyz to Release Marley Coffee-Branded Capsules, Expanding to Iced and Sparkling Beverages DENVER, Aug. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Marley Coffee (OTCQB:JAMN), the sustaina ...

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