Connecting with the Specialty Coffee Consumer
Although specialty coffee has been a movement of twenty-five years or more, we actually know very little about our customers. Who are they, what do they drink, and most importantly, what motivates them?…
Providing Opportunities for Dialogue at 4th Annual Symposium
Symposium Provides Opportunities for Dialogue for Leaders in the Specialty Coffee Industry Symposium was born from the concept that in order to ensure a sustainable future for specialty coffee, we have to open…
2012 SCAA Symposium Producer Scholarship – Now Accepting Applications
We are pleased to offer a scholarship opportunity to attend the SCAA Symposium April 18-19, 2012, in Portland, OR. SCAA, supported by Probat Burns, BUNN, and SCAA’s Sustainability Council, is offering up to…
Symposium: Inspiring New Solutions in Specialty Coffee
We invite you to join us for the 4th Annual SCAA Symposium where we will consider the new context for specialty – one where global demand for coffee outpaces production, creating new market…
Coffee Quality and Sustainability: The Issues Challenging and Changing Our World
By Shauna Alexander Mohr In the mid-1990s, before most industries were tackling sustainability, specialty coffee companies came together with NGOs and research institutions to address issues such as shade-grown coffee, organics and Fair…
Quality: What is it and how do we deliver it?
Reflections on the year’s SCAA Symposium By Kevin Knox At this year’s SCAA Symposium one presenter asked whether quality alone was enough to equal sustainability. Another suggested jettisoning the carefully crafted SCAA and…
Going Up and Out: Orbital Thinking at Symposium
By Trish Rothgeb From the moment that SCAA Executive Director Ric Rhinehart asked the 400 plus attendees at SCAA Symposium 2011 to “get orbital,” I knew this annual event of presentations, forums and…
The New Market Reality
By Ric Rhinehart At the recent SCAA Symposium, I had an opportunity to present some thoughts on the challenges facing our industry as we come to grips with a new market reality. It…
