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Category Archives: Costa Coffee
New research project: exploring the impact of the Chatty Café Scheme
Coffee shops are important for different people in different places. I have argued in some of my previous work that coffee shops are important spaces for people to connect, and important places of community creation. For the next couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Chatty Cafe, community, Costa Coffee, research, Social Enterprises, Use of cafe spaces
Tagged Cafe, chatting, Chatty Cafe, coffee shop, community, loneliness, Social isolation, talking, volunteering
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Costa Coffee, Coca-cola and the quest for global expansion – India and the Middle East
In 2018 it was announced that the global soft drinks company Coca-cola was going to buy the UK based coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, owned at the time by Whitbread, for nearly £4 billion. This was not the first big … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Coffee, coffee culture, Costa Coffee, India, Middle East
Tagged Cafe, Cafe Coffee Day, Cafe Culture, Coca cola, coffee shop, coffee shop culture, Costa Coffee, India, Middle East
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From pub to coffee shop: changing habits?
The number of pubs in the UK is in decline. The BBC reported that in the second half of 2017, around 18 pubs were closing every week, according to data from The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). There are a … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Cafe types, coffee culture, Coffee industry, community, Consumers, Costa Coffee, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged Cafe, coffee, coffee culture, coffee shop, Consumers, consumption, Costa Coffee, pubs
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Spaces of community: Chatty Cafes and Costa Coffee
It was announced this week that Costa Coffee would be rolling out the concept of ‘Chatter and Natter’ tables to 300 stores across the UK. As part of the ‘Chatty Café scheme’ it involves cafes having a designated table with … Continue reading
Coffee Shop Chains and ‘New Retail’ in China: Starbucks, Luckin Coffee, apps and delivery
China continues to be one of the largest growing markets for the coffee shop industry, with estimates of market growth ranging between 5-9% year according to different consultancy reports. Such growth is an attractive prospect for large international coffee shop … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Cafe types, China, Coffee, coffee culture, Costa Coffee, Economic Impact, Global Chains, Innovation, Starbucks
Tagged Alibaba, apps, China, coffee chain, coffee culture, coffee shop, drink, Ele.me, food, Hema, Luckin, Luckin Coffee, new retail, partnership, Starbucks, supermarket
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New publication: Challenges and opportunities of new retail horizons in emerging markets: The case of a rising coffee culture in China
If you follow news about developments in the coffee and coffee shop industry then you may have seen recent articles about the growth of coffee shop culture in China, in particular about the rapid growth of Luckin Coffee, (a Beijing … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, China, Coffee, coffee culture, Coffee Growing, Coffee industry, Costa Coffee, Global Chains, Journal article, Publications, research, Starbucks
Tagged China, Chinese coffee, coffee, coffee culture, coffee shop, coffee shop chains, Costa Coffee, emerging markets, Growth, Journal article, Luckin Coffee, publication, research, retail, Specialty Coffee, Starbucks
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Tackling the coffee cup mountain: Will a ‘latte’ levy make a difference?
While the rapid growth of the coffee shop industry in the UK has been important for the retail economy it has had significant environmental consequences, most notably the huge amount of disposable coffee cups. It is estimated that 2.5 billion … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, circular economy, coffee culture, Consumers, Costa Coffee, Economic Impact, High Streets, Sustainability, UK
Tagged binfrastructure, coffee cup tax, coffee cups, Coffee Shops, environmental audit committee, house of commons, inquiry, latte levy, recycle, recycling, reduce, research, retail, reuse, Sustainability, tax
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The coffee shop market in Europe: growth and the future
Allegra Strategies one of the leading coffee industry market research companies recently published the newest version of its Project Café Europe. The 2018 version according to this article from the Independent indicated that 21 out of 25 European countries experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Coffee, coffee culture, Costa Coffee, data, Europe, Starbucks, UK
Tagged 5th wave of coffee, Allegra Strategies, Bloomberg, coffee, coffee consumption, coffee shop, Costa Coffee, Eastern Europe, Europe, Growth, Independent, Specialty Coffee, specialty coffee shop, Starbucks, Western Europe
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Consumers, reusable cups and convenience
At the end of the November Coventry University published a press release which included some of my research based around the issue of disposable coffee cups and plastic waste. The release came out just after the Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced … Continue reading
Peak Coffee Shop? Peak Costa Coffee? Where next for the UK market leader?
Last year I wrote an article for the Conversation about if Britain had reached ‘peak coffee shop’, sparked by industry forecasts that suggested the number of coffee shops in the country was set to continue to grow at pace (to … Continue reading →