For paid subscribers: Nestlé is exploring a sale of Blue Bottle, and Luckin is reportedly interested. With such different approaches to coffee, however, it’s worth asking the question: why?
Coffee is increasingly at risk from the climate crisis, and corporate-driven incremental change won’t save it. The theory of degrowth offers hope for a better world and a fairer coffee industry.
This week on the Coffee News Roundup: the big US chains are doing fine, a new tool to encourage more equitable coffee buying, and Starbucks is once again extending benefits—as long as you’re not in the union.
Read about all this and a fairly odd coffee-health study in Fresh Cup Magazine:
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