Coffee Seek

Positioned as a relatively inexpensive luxury, upscale coffee sales continue to thrive even as many other industries suffer from consumer cutbacks on nonessential purchases, according to market research publisher Packaged Facts in "Coffee and Ready-to-Drink Coffee in the U.S.: The Market and Opportunities in Retail and Foodservice, 6th Edition."

More here: Upscaling Continues to Drive Coffee Sales (The Gourmet Retailer)

Renée Zellweger bought a $100 coffee gift card for a stranger who put some spare change in her parking meter.

Continue here: Renée Zellweger Bought A $100 Coffee Gift Card For A Stranger (MusicRooms)

A ‘Legislative Coffee’ will be held at 10 a.m. March 13 at the Logan Community Center. Senator James Seymour and Representative Matt Windschitl will be available to update participants on issues at the Iowa Legislature.

Read more:
Legislative Coffee (Logan Herald-Observer & Woodbine Twiner)

Brazil's coffee exports fell 15 percent in volume terms in February, compared to the same month in 2009, the exporters council, known as Cecafe, said.

Read the rest of the post here:
Brazil's coffee exports fall 15 percent (MalaysiaNews.net)

El Lago Coffee Co., which focuses on eco-friendliness, will begin offering its coffee at Arlan’s Market in Galveston.

Continue here: Isle Arlans’ to start selling El Lago coffee (Galveston County Daily News)

More coffee drinking coupled with climate change have reduced supplies of beans, producers said at an international conference over the weekend.

Read the rest here:
Coffee supplies hit by rising demand, climate change (USA Today)

NAPLES —What's happening in YOUR neighborhood? Starting at 6 p.m., that's the question staff members will be asking attendees during Thursday night's "Coffee & Community" event at NoNa Art Gallery & Studio on 2079 J&C Boulevard just north of the Hollywood 20 movie theater in North Naples.The informal meet-and-greet, the seventh in a monthly series, aims to introduce readers and non-readers alike ...

More:
Coffee & Community paints the town at NoNa Art Gallery on March 18 (Naples Daily News)

India's budget yet again demonstrates to NRIs that investing in their homeland is probably the best option right now. The West is still struggling to climb out of one of its deepest recessions and provides low returns, while India's growth story promises healthy returns. Surely, it's time to wake up and smell the Indian coffee.

See more here:
India's budget: NRIs wake up and smell the coffee (Calcutta News)

A homeless McHenry County man was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for throwing hot coffee into the face of a Starbucks barista who was trying to help calm him through an erratic episode.

Continue here:
Starbucks coffee thrower gets two years in prison (Daily Herald)

Dhaka, Feb 26 (IANS) Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), a region currently in the throes of ethnic violence, is fast becoming the country's new home for coffee cultivation.

Continue here: Coffee cultivation up in Chittagong Hill Tracts (MalaysiaNews.net)