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Nestlé Q3 results beat forecasts on coffee strength
Coffee sales rose 3.4% as the Swiss group's quarterly revenue reached CHF 22.76 billion, while Russia came off the books entirely.
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.
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.
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.
Ethiopian researchers turn coffee parchment into cellulose
A team at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University pulls almost 92% pure cellulose out of the husk that mills usually burn or dump.
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.
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.
StoneX buys Integra, a Colombian coffee trader, exporter and mill
The US commodities firm is folding a family-run origination business near Medellín into its global coffee arm, the latest trading house to buy its way to the farm gate.
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.
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