Cooper & Co

I’m currently reading a book titled “Moral ambition” by Rutger Bregman and I thought this quote so sums up what is happening in this part of Ethi...

The final day starts with a power cut, something that has happened quite a few times during this stay. I hadn’t really thought much about it unti...

We returned to our hotel around 5pm and requested a walk into the surrounding town of Mizan. Rather than let Guus and I loose, alone, our driver s...

I’d forgotten that early morning starts are standard fayre for these kinds of trips. These places are huge and 2 hours is just around the corne...

I landed in Addis Ababa at 6 am local time, or 3am UK time. There is nothing pleasant about spending circa 7 hours on a plane. Unfolding myself fr...

I haven’t been to a coffee growing country since just before COVID way back in 2020. I remember vividly the front page of Time magazine with the p...

We went on to taste a selection of coffees from the Co-operative that had been prepared for us. It transpired that 2 of the lots were being import...

Yesterday we set off from Caranavi our base for the last couple of days at 4.30 am. As the water wasn’t switched on until 6.30am, bottled water be...

The creation of a “Green wall” at our IFC café came about, like many things in life by accident. As a result of the building of our toilet fa...

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...