Insights and Stories on Coffee

wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia.

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

Oct. 22, 2021 at 8:04 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs […]

Restaurant Brands to boost outlets by 54 per cent within 10 years

May. 15, 2019 at 4:10 pm CDT

By Shradha Singh

Tim Hortons to enter China

Jul. 11, 2018 at 6:54 pm CDT

By Karan Nagarkatti Nichola Saminather

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

May. 29, 2018 at 6:40 pm CDT

By Ana Mano José Roberto Gomes

Second Cup to set up cannabis lounges in West

Apr. 12, 2018 at 7:12 am CDT

By Staff

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

Mar. 27, 2018 at 3:45 am CDT

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western […]

By roberto-samora

Can coffee cause cancer? Only if it’s very hot, says WHO agency

Jun. 15, 2016 at 8:01 pm CDT

London | Reuters — There is no conclusive evidence that drinking coffee causes cancer, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency said Wednesday, in a reverse of its previous warning, but it also said all “very hot” drinks are probably carcinogenic. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) had […]

By Kate Kelland

Colombia’s coffee sector seen needing complete overhaul

Feb. 10, 2015 at 7:14 pm CST

Bogota | Reuters –– Colombia’s coffee sector needs a complete overhaul to recover from a huge loss of global market share, says a government-commissioned report, seen by Reuters, in which the recommendations include deregulation of exports and the introduction of a minimum price. Despite the undisputed quality of its mild […]

By peter-murphy