Nothing frustrates me more than people complaining about coffee being expensive. The fact of the matter, is that coffee is extremely cheap if you start looking at the amount of labour and how many people are involved in the chain from seed to cup. The C-market price today is about the same as it was […]
Like last year we want to push the coffee industry to be more transparent and therefore let you know what kind of prices we payed for coffee during 2011. Most of you know that the coffee prices has been rising for the last two years, and as we speak the commodity prices for coffee is
A lot of you have probably allready noted that the coffee prices have been rising a lot during the last year. Only a week ago the C-market (based on future contracts on coffee where prices are set by speculation on supply and demand) went over USD 3 per lb (453 g) of green unexported coffee.
Yesterday I got a link sent to me by a good friend and coffee enthusiast in San Francisco. The link is to an Internet forum called Home Barista that is basically a discussion forum for coffee enthusiasts from around the world. I was a bit surprised to read this post on a forum created by and
On todays Best of Panama Auction there was yet another price record for the 1st place winning lot from Hacienda la Esmeralda at USD 170,20 per lb. of coffee (453 grams). This is the price of green coffee before it is packed and shipped to Norway. I am glad we got our hands on some
For those of you who wonder what is going on with fair trade and why we are not selling fair trade coffee, please read this long e-mail from Geoff Watts. Geoff is one of the worlds absolute pioneers when it comes to sourcing and buying green coffee and establishing relationships and direct trade models with