We are pleased to announce that we have received sufficient nominees to fulfill all open coordinator roles to form SCA Norway Chapter Committee for the term of 2020-2022.
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Voting in the 2020 SCA Ireland Chapter elections is officially open. The nomination stage is closed, and the candidates listed below have accepted their nominations. If you are an SCA member based in Ireland, cast your vote today.
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This map outlines the relationships between key actors and actions in the specialty coffee industry and in doing so illustrates the complexity of this global value-generating ecosystem, while recognizing previously invisible actors and telling multiple stories.
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Last week, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) launched New in Coffee— new.sca.coffee — an online platform aimed at consumers and businesses, gathering the latest product launches across the sector’s vast and diverse supply chain.
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All-Stars from the World Coffee Championships are coming to your screens in two interactive features this June — All-Stars Online and All-Stars x Barista Guild!
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As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve in the United States, specialty coffee businesses are adapting in a variety of ways. Square, Inc. and the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) released the 2020 Square x SCA Coffee Report, outlining the current state of the specialty coffee industry.
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Following the 2002 coffee price crisis, our industry turned to solutions focused on delivering greater value to consumers or introducing new market segments, but in hindsight, these have had a negligible impact on addressing the problem of stagnant producer income: only a tiny proportion of the increased value filters down to growers in the current model.
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Join the Coffee Roasters Guild on Friday, May 15, for the first in the We Are #StillRoasting series focused on the current experiences of coffee professionals around the world.
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Join the Coffee Roasters Guild (CRG) on Friday, May 8, for a conversation with North Central College on their direct trade relationship with coffee farmers in Guatemala.
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In this issue, we’re taking a step back and focusing on some big questions that could shape the future of our industry.
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Dr. ILJA CROIJMANS explores why the vocabulary we use to describe aromas matters, sharing findings of previous research on the evolution of sensory language from hunter-gathers to wine and coffee professionals.
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JENN RUGOLO distils findings of the SCA’s Price Crisis Response (PCR) report and offers some ways we can begin to put some of the report’s recommendations into practice immediately.
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Specialty Coffee Association CEO YANNIS APOSTOLOPOULOS shares findings from the recent Coffee Growth Dynamics Report from Euromonitor International.
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We know that high-quality coffee comes at a cost, but what are the unseen costs of selling that coffee with a story? EVER MEISTER asks herself this question every day—and now she’s asking all of us.
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NOA BERGER explores some of the different ways packaging helps to construct different types of authenticity.
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Sitting at the crossroads between Scandinavia and the Baltics, Helsinki has this wonderfully Finnish feeling about it while remaining accessible, vibrant, and dynamic.
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“An update on the status of coffee vocabulary is very much called for,” wrote Ilja. And so, when presenting this work at Sensory Summit in Zurich—complete with wine and coffee samples—Ilja also collected data.
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While we can’t join together in Portland as planned, we've been working hard in the background to bring some of Expo's features to all of you online throughout something we're calling #ExpoSeason.
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After many weeks of discussions with our partners regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on SCA events, today we are sad to announce that the 2020 Re:co Symposium and Specialty Coffee Expo scheduled to take place in Portland in April will be canceled.
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Después de muchas semanas de discusiones con nuestros socios sobre los impactos de COVID-19 en los eventos de SCA, hoy nos entristece anunciar que Re:co Symposium 2020 y la Specialty Coffee Expo programados para realizarse en Portland en abril ahora están cancelados.
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