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I’m a great believer in business being a force for good. I’m fortunate to be involved in an industry that has a global reach, namely coffee. It is...

Can you imagine the conversation in the boardroom of a global coffee chain when the subject matter of a longstanding member of staff’s attire is b...

There are few presentations that have made more of an impression on me than that given by “The Future Collective” at a recent trade show I visited...

I always treat this event in a much more holistic way than simply visiting another exhibition about coffee. The event really starts from the momen...

3 lbs of loose-leaf tea packed in ¼ lb bags was recently delivered to my office in Halkett Place. Apart from the Imperial weight measure, you’re p...

Has it really been 4 years since Cooper's sponsored a Durrell Gorilla? Back then we used the empty space of what is now our IFC5 coffee shop as a ...

Highlands College Arts students will be staging a Sustainable Fashion Show celebrating their creative talent, this evening at Cooper's Internation...

As the band Fairport Convention once wrote “who knows where the time goes?” I find myself back again at the London Coffee Festival. It seems only ...

Many years ago I travelled to Brazil as part of a fact-finding mission to understand why it was that some producers could sell Fairtrade certified...

The coffee capsule is a genius invention; it solves so many problems in one tiny package however it comes at a huge environmental price. We’re tr...

There’s a Taoist saying “the journey is the reward”. I mention this because our journey to the London Coffee Festival this year was a combination...

Coffee is really interesting, no I mean it; it really IS interesting. Although I’ve been in this business for more years than I can count I still...