It’s simple and intuitive to use, but still gives you full control of your own coffee. That is the marketing message surrounding De’Longhi’s new manual coffee machine, The Dedica, which will be available mid-August. The Dedica Manual Coffee Machine (RRP $349 ) makes the “easiest form of c ...

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Way back in the mists of time there was a TV program called Generation Gap in which teenagers and their parents faced off against each other to show off their knowledge of each others’ generation. Each group would be asked to identify songs, advertisements and objects from the other g ...

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Nestle has set up a social media hub where fans of its Nescafe brand can share actions in exchange for virtual and real rewards as part of a long-term plan to reach discerning, younger drinkers. Nescafe has created a Facebook hub to appeal to younger, discerning drinkers. “The ...

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Cambridge-based digital marketing firm Genie Ventures has sold its stake in Big Cup Little Cup to British coffee capsule firm CaféPod. It follows closely behind Genie Ventures’ successful sale of sister coffee subscription service Kopi to Cafédirect in May. The Big Cup Little Cup sale follo ...

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Kane Bodiam’s revolutionary coffee capsules fit a range of machines. ‘I don’t want to see anyone drinking instant coffee any more’. Source: News Corp Australia IT all started with a love of coffee. Sydney man Kane Bodiam, who started making coffees to get out o ...

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There are many people who drink coffee or tea every morning on the way to work. And there are those that drink another cup or five at the office, once they get there. So how can a person who doesn’t want to use disposal cups because of all the waste it would generate, but would prefer somet ...

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Back in March, we told you about how the famed makers of the Keurig single-cup coffee brewing “pod” contraption was about to launch a new version with DRM. A competitor, Treehouse Foods, was taking Keurig makers Green Mountain Coffee Roasters to court over this attempt to block them out ...

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Courtesy Green Your Cup Green Your Cup coffee cup Attention, eco-minded coffee connoisseurs: If you bought your caffeine fix in a disposable cup this morning, that cup probably won’t get recycled, even if you dutifully chucked it into a green bin. Starbucks (SBUX) manages to recycle ...

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Leave it to the Italians to design a capsule-based espresso system for astronauts who miss their morning cup. (Courtesy of Lavazza) When our pals at the Two-Way wrote last month that engineers had finally come up with a way to brew some good Italian espresso on the International Space ...

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