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Starbucks: US sales rise 7.9%, profit slides on China exit
Comparable sales climbed 7.2% worldwide and 7.9% in North America in the quarter to 27 September, but revenue fell 4% after Starbucks closed the sale of its China retail business.
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World Barista Champion is Chinese for the first time
Pan Wei of Parking Coffee becomes the first barista from China to win the World Barista Champion title, beating five finalists in Panama City with a routine built on Geisha coffee from Panama and Colombia.
Brazil's coffee exports to the US nearly double in September
Cecafé says US purchases of Brazilian coffee jumped 86% in September after most tariffs were lifted, retaking the top buyer spot from Germany even as total export revenue fell.
Cauca coffee sells for a record $400 a pound in Colombia
A washed Castillo lot from a small farm in Rosas sold for nearly six times the auction's average price, part of a record week for Colombian specialty coffee.
Colombia's coffee crop falls to its smallest since 2022
Colombia's national coffee output dropped 15% to 12.65 million bags for the 2025-26 season, its smallest crop since 2022-23, while a strong El Niño threatens the harvest still to come.
World Barista Championship debuts in Panama
Panama City hosts the Specialty Coffee Association's flagship contest for the first time, with more than 50 national champions competing at World of Coffee.
Blue Bottle opens in Bangkok under a sculpted paper lantern
Blue Bottle Coffee's first two Bangkok cafés opened in August; the EmQuartier flagship now draws design attention for a teak-and-lantern interior by Tokyo studio I IN.
Phil & Sebastian's Project III sends one farm to three roasters
Calgary's Phil & Sebastian, Proud Mary and MAME each roast a different lot from Panama grower Ratibor Hartmann, sold together as a $170 CAD box set.
Blueprint Coffee passes its tariff refunds back to customers
The St. Louis roaster says it will not keep money refunded after a Supreme Court ruling, arguing the people who paid the tariffs should get it back.
US funds $8m coffee and cacao research lab in Hawaii
The State Department is backing a University of Hawaiʻi-led program, the first federal coffee research money since USAID's funding collapsed in 2025.
A coffee watch Kickstarter raises six times its goal
Chronofuns' Coffee in Motion Chronograph puts a mechanical movement, bean-shaped hour markers and a swirling espresso subdial on the wrist.
Mega MGC Coffee opens in Cambodia with a Phnom Penh flagship
The Korean chain of 4,500 takeaway-sized shops has opened an 86-seat café on Koh Pich, its second country abroad. Four more are promised by December; the local partner is not named.
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