Weak Rupee Good News For Indian Coffee
Last week it was reported that late rains would spell trouble for the Coffee Board of India. After the country experienced something of a prolonged dry spell, the seasonal showers finally arrived but many industry analysts believed the wet weather was too little, too late.
Karnataka, India’s premier coffee growing region, was reporting 20% less rain this year than the annual average, even with the onset of the storms. It wasn’t the news that the Coffee Board wanted, especially after they made some rather bold predictions about how large the harvests would be for the 2015-16 growing season.
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Rains Force A Revision Of Record-Breaking Predictions
A few eyebrows were raised when the Coffee Board of India predicted that the country’s 2015-16 crop would be the highest ever recorded.Unfortunately, it seems that their forecast was a little too optimistic – and once again erratic weather patterns are being blamed.
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Barista Coffee to be sold?
Is the Barista Coffee brand cursed?
With a sizeable presence in one of the world’s most exciting coffee markets, you would think that Barista Coffee would be mildly competitive, even if they are jostling with Starbucks and Cafe Coffee Day.
However Barista Coffee (formerly Barista Lavazza) has been on a downward trend for a while now and despite changing hands last year, it seems that the struggling coffee chain is up for sale yet again.
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Di Bella Coffee Plan $5m Indian Investment
The Australian coffee chain Di Bella Coffee looks set to pump in around $5m in to their Indian operations in a bid to increase their presence in the country, reports in India suggest.
As well as this influx of revenue, the company is also set to open up a specialised Barista training centre in the country and could even introduce roasting hubs in some of its stores.
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Tata Starbucks to stop using banned ingredients
After some trouble importing a number of popular ingredients and confectionaries, Tata Starbucks has announced that they will only use ingredients that have been improved by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
Tata Starbucks is a joint venture between Tata Global Beverages and Starbucks, and they are one of the biggest coffee chains in India, though they lag some way behind the popular native brand Café Coffee Day.
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CCRI believes to have found a solution to the white stem borer
India’s troubles with the white stem borer could be over, if the latest study conducted by the Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI) is anything to go by.
The white stem borer (Xylotrechus javanicus) has been especially prevalent in recent times, causing widespread crop loss on around one hundred plantations in the primary coffee growing areas of Karnataka state.
Farmers in Karnataka produce around seventy percent of India’s coffee.
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Hilite Group and Beans and Flavours anounce expansion plans
The domestic Indian coffee market is one that we like to keep a trained eye upon as we believe it is one of the most diverse and intriguing national sectors around.
With a population of over a billion people and some of the most vibrant cities in the world, the nation is slowly but surely taking to the ‘western’ coffee culture that many of us are normally familiar with. But that transition hasn’t been smooth, nor has it been easy – as many of the global giants have found out to their detriment in recent years.
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Barista aims to open 550 new stores
To put it mildly, it has been a tumultuous twelve months for the Indian-based coffee chain Barista.
Earlier on in 2014 their long-standing union with Lavazza ended as the Italians sold their controlling stake in the firm, passing on the struggling brand to Carnation Hospitality for a fee believed to be under the $15m mark.
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Lavazza looking forward to India’s burgeoning love of coffee
When it comes to the blossoming Indian coffee sector, the famous Italian company Lavazza hasn’t been able to rely on brand presence and their heritage to compete in the dogged battle for retail store supremacy. This year, after financial problems and the prospect of an uphill battle against the likes of Starbucks and Café Coffee Day, the Barista chain was finally sold which marked the end of Lavazza’s presence in the world of coffee shops.
However, it is hoped that the presence of their now defunct brand will help them win another war in the country.
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Indian exports are down, but revenues rise
The amount of coffee that India has exported has dropped by around four per cent due to unstable market prices, according to the nation’s Coffee Board.
The total that left the country weighed in at 275,000 tonne, down from the 288,000 that was shipped during the 2013 calendar year. It also represents a dramatic drop from the 312,000 tonnes that India exported just two years ago.
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