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Barista Champion Lem Butler Main 10K Fundraising Stroll in Ethiopia
2016 U.S. Barista Champion Lem Butler is main a 10-kilometer fundraising stroll in Sidama, Ethiopia, on Worldwide Ladies’s Day, March 8. The trouble is designed to spotlight the lengthy distances many rural ladies journey to achieve fundamental well being providers. Donations will assist Grounds for Well being’s cervical most cancers prevention packages, with items matched by Royal Espresso as much as $10,000.
Espresso Mission NY Ladies Espresso Roasters Scholarship Program Coming to Colombia
Espresso Mission NY introduced functions for its 2026 Ladies in Espresso Roasters Scholarship will open March 1 and shut March 31, with six recipients to be introduced in April. This system features a customized Specialty Espresso Affiliation Roasting Basis course taught by co-founder and head roaster Chi Sum Ngai. Whereas earlier scholarship programs have been held in New York, the 2026 programs will happen in Colombia to supply alternatives that may in any other case be scarce due to U.S. journey restrictions.
Matt Daks and Serena Beze Be a part of StoneX Specialty Espresso
StoneX Specialty Espresso has added management for its North American inexperienced espresso enterprise, naming Serena Beze as a gross sales govt and Matt Daks as senior vice chairman. The corporate can also be selling a brand new “Import Companies” program for full-container sourcing mixed with risk-management, financing and logistics providers.
Dean’s Beans’ Beth Spong to Ship IWCA Keynote at NCA Conference
The Worldwide Ladies’s Espresso Alliance is internet hosting its annual Networking Breakfast on March 13 from 8 to 9 a.m. through the 2026 Nationwide Espresso Affiliation Conference in Tampa, Florida. Dean’s Beans Natural Espresso Firm CEO Beth Spong will ship a keynote handle.
AeroPress Introduces Stainless Metal AeroPress Metal Brewer
AeroPress has launched the AeroPress Metal, a chrome steel model of its brewer that includes the corporate’s “3-in-1” brew methodology and a bigger 12-ounce (360 milliliter) capability, which the corporate says is about 20% extra quantity than its standard-size fashions. AeroPress says it’s out there in stainless and “black stainless” finishes.
Dutch Bros Says “Dutch Luv” Day Generated Extra Than $1.1 Million for Native Meals Nonprofits
Dutch Bros Espresso says its annual Dutch Luv Day of Giving on Feb. 13 resulted in additional than $1.1 million in donations to native meals nonprofits. The corporate says the Dutch Bros Basis contributed $1 for each drink offered that day.
World Espresso Analysis Appoints Lissette Hernández Senior Analysis Technician
World Espresso Analysis says it has appointed Lissette Hernández as senior analysis technician, supporting international breeding trials and subject actions, together with the Innovea International Breeding Community. Hernández is predicated in Turrialba, Costa Rica.
SCA Webinar on “Rewarding Biodiverse Approaches” Coming March 3
The Specialty Espresso Affiliation is selling a free-to-attend webinar on March 3 at 11 a.m. Japanese titled “Discovering Worth for Shared Prosperity: Rewarding Biodiverse Approaches.” Juanita Duque, Angela Peláez and Andrés Montenegro will lead a dialogue on fashions that reward farmers with premiums for safeguarding biodiversity and pure ecosystems.
Julius Meinl Says It Has Reached 100% “Responsibly Chosen Espresso”
Austrian roasting firm Julius Meinl says all inexperienced espresso roasted at its manufacturing vegetation in Vienna and Vicenza now meets its definition of “Responsibly Chosen Espresso,” aligned with the International Espresso Platform Espresso Sustainability Reference Code.
Brazil’s CONAB Launches Free “Parque Cafeeiro” Platform for EUDR Compliance
Brazil’s Nationwide Provide Firm (CONAB) says it has launched a public, free “Parque Cafeeiro” platform that integrates authorities databases and satellite tv for pc monitoring to assist assist due diligence tied to the EU’s deforestation regulation (EUDR).
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Listed here are a few of DCN’s high tales from the previous week…
Barista Journal Internet hosting Camp Espresso Store in Napa
Registration opened right now (Feb. 25) for the inaugural Camp Espresso Store, a four-day enterprise schooling occasion in Napa Valley, California, for present and aspiring espresso store homeowners and different espresso professionals… learn extra
Caffè Nero’s $4.7 Million Bid Leads Compass Espresso Chapter 11 Public sale
Caffè Nero North America emerged because the profitable bidder in Compass Espresso’s Chapter 11 sale course of this week, with a bid valued at $4,764,988, in keeping with courtroom paperwork… learn extra
Spirit Animal Rebrands to Spirit Origin, Opens Honduras Flagship
Honduras-based, globally targeted specialty espresso firm Spirit Animal Espresso has rebranded to Spirit Origin whereas opening a brand new flagship retail advanced in Roatán… learn extra
Nationwide Espresso Affiliation Names 2026 Trade Award Winners
The U.S. Nationwide Espresso Affiliation (NCA) introduced the recipients of its 2026 particular person awards and its 2026 “Origin Charity of the Yr” Award, with displays deliberate through the commerce group’s annual conference in Tampa, Florida, March 12-14… learn extra
James Marcotte, a Beloved Determine in California Espresso, Dies at 63
James Paul Marcotte, the co-founder of Metropolis Bean Roasters and longtime Western U.S. gross sales director for Intelligentsia Espresso, died Feb. 16 on the age of 63… learn extra
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Black Sheep Plans 20 Extra North Texas Shops as Chain Panorama Heats Up
UK-born espresso chain Black Sheep Espresso is getting ready a significant push in america by way of a 20-unit franchise settlement for North Texas with one in every of its present UK franchisees, Yoloways Ltd… learn extra
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