Category Archives: Economic Impact

Examining sustainability risks in Indonesia-UK coffee supply chains

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Jennifer Ferreira

The global coffee industry faces a number of sustainability risks from price volatility, and supply of labour to climate change and changing prevalence of pests and disease. The challenges it faces are complex, with adjustments to supply chains shaped by … Continue reading →

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Coffee and communities: Well Grounded – The Specialty Coffee Training Academy

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Jennifer Ferreira

As I’ve explained before on the ‘cafespaces’ blog, the coffee and coffee shop industries have the potential to impact various communities; an important route for doing so is through the activities of social enterprises. A great example is Well Grounded, … Continue reading →

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Coffee Shop Chains and ‘New Retail’ in China: Starbucks, Luckin Coffee, apps and delivery

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Jennifer Ferreira

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 →

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Researching the Coffee and Coffee Shop Industries: A Guide for A Level Geography Students and Teachers

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Jennifer Ferreira

The coffee shop industry in has experienced significant growth over the last decade with recent estimates suggesting the industry in the UK alone is worth £9 billion, with over 24,000 outlets. Coffee shops are present in places across many countries … Continue reading →

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Tackling the coffee cup mountain: Will a ‘latte’ levy make a difference?

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Jennifer Ferreira

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 →

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Trends and patterns in coffee, cafes and coffee shops

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Jennifer Ferreira

The Specialty Coffee Association has recently published two news pieces with data (and nice infographics) about the coffee industry, the first looking at specialty coffee consumption trends in the US, and the second on the size of the coffee market … Continue reading →

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Coffee shops, The Conversation and radio

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Jennifer Ferreira

There have been a few articles in the media recently about if the UK is close to reaching peak coffee shop. The BBC asked if the UK was reaching coffee shop saturation point, ITV News ran a short piece on … Continue reading →

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More than just four options

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Jennifer Ferreira

Earlier this month an article on BBC News appeared which outlined ‘four solutions to the disposable coffee cup problem’. It re-highlights the scale of the disposable coffee cup problem in the UK – 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups thrown away … Continue reading →

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Coffee shops and work: considering the ‘coffice economy’

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Jennifer Ferreira

Last week I gave a presentation at the Coventry University Faculty of Business and Law conference about cafés as important spaces of co-working (summarised in this blog post), and right on schedule a new piece of research has been produced … Continue reading →

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Co-working and the cafe: an animation

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Jennifer Ferreira

Back in March I wrote a blog post highlighting some of my key points from a presentation around co-working and the café. Recently I came across a platform, PowToon, which allows you to create animations from presentations. So I thought … Continue reading →

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