I’ve been a longtime advocate of SodaStream, which lets you cheaply make seltzer at home and on demand, rather than storing massive bottles of the stuff around the house. The company has basically owned the home carbonation market. But now the Wall Street Journal reports that it’s going ...

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AUGUST 01, 2015 If a cup of coffee is brewed in a café and no one is around to Instagram it, did it ever really exist? Coffee shots on Instagram have become a staple for aspiring hipsters the world over. But what kinds of cups generate the most social traction? UK coffee vending machine supplier Ex ...

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Illycaffè has sold a €70m bond as the Italian family-owned company decides to go it alone in the rapidly consolidating global coffee industry. In a private placement underwritten by Pricoa Capital Group, the company has the option to increase it to €140m. The move by Illycaffè comes amid a period o ...

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The single-use coffee pods are an environmental disaster, with enough discarded ones to circle the earth 12 times in 2014. Talk about a weight on one’s conscience. John Sylvan is the inventor of the K-cup. Back in 1992, the young Bostonian who didn’t even like coffee was drinking 30 to 40 cup ...

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Coffee Pods Are Slowly Decreasing Coffee Demand In the modern office, no one complains about someone leaving an empty coffee pot on the burner. That’s because the younger generation has risen above such petty affronts… Just kidding. It’s actually because the big office coffee pot is a thing of the p ...

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A single-serve Keurig Green Mountain brewing machine is seen before dispensing coffee in New York in this file photo from February 6, 2015. Keurig coffeemakers have grown in popularity over the last few years. The ability to make a single cup of a particular flavor of coffee on demand has been a hu ...

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You might expect an Italian coffee company to celebrate its 120th anniversary with an espresso-fuelled party on a sunny European terrace. Not Lavazza. Instead, the Italian coffee giant has chosen its anniversary to release its first annual sustainability report, outlining ambitious plans to infuse ...

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From the company’s solar-powered Topsham roastery to its electric vans, the Maine coffee business strives to be as sustainable as possible. Bob Garver, the founder and owner of Topsham-based Wicked Joe Coffee, has visited an estimated 1,000 coffee farms in his day. Obviously, all of them are f ...

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The coffee industry is seeing its ups and downs in terms of production, consumption, influx of varietals, the consumer shift to specialty coffee, and, most noticeably, increases in price. “Simultaneously extremely exciting and a little tumultuous” — this is the state of the U.S. coffee ...

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Cricketer Ed Cowan will have one eye on the Ashes this week — starting in Cardiff on Wednesday — and the other on his extended investment activities. These days, along with opening for NSW, the 33-year-old batsman has returned home to Tasmania to open a “coffee capsule” business — Tripod Coffee — ...

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Yet another robotic bartending appliance has hit the crowdfunded scene, because apparently the only cocktails anybody knows about anymore are alcohol and fruit juice. With just over two days to go in their campaign, Bartesian has already surpassed their fundraising goal by a comfortable margin. Thi ...

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The capsule world: not just coffee The market of coffee in portions is now dominated by capsules, which in the last few years have revolutionized the way we drink coffee, making it even more widespread and consumed.  Capsules are an optimal packaging solution, as they allow for a long shelf life an ...

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