PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (October 16, 2018) – Smallholder coffees excelled at the 2018 Papua New Guinea Coffee Cupping Competition, with top lots achieving over 85 points on Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) scoresheets. This is the third annual event organized by PNG’s Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC), in partnership with the Australian Government-funded Pacific Horticultural […]

PEOPLE are increasingly snacking to manage their mood but the lolly jar is out as middle-class consumers with flexible eating routines drive demand for healthy snacks, new research shows. Participants in the survey by Galileo Kaleidoscope reported snacking as a method of handling stress, enhancing social engagement or to address feelings of low energy. But […]

Muffin Break, a coffee and bakery franchise, has also made their commitment to reduce their impact in the environment. Kicking off this August, Muffin Break: Partners with Simply Cups to recycle 11 million cups Partners with Responsible Cafes, offering customers a 30c discount on their coffee when they come in with a keep cup Offers […]

OzHarvest was founded by Ronni Kahn in 2004, after noticing the huge volume of delicious consumable food being discarded from restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and corporate events every day. She decided there had to be a better way. Ronni began collecting surplus food with just one van – the first of many donations -from the Goodman+ […]

Katy Barfield, CEO & Founder of Yume, is the winner of the 2017 Telstra Victoria Business Women’s For-Purpose and Social Enterprise Award   Melbourne, Australia, October 11th 2017 – Katy Barfield, CEO and Founder of Yume, has been awarded the Victorian Telstra Business Women’s Award in the For Purpose and Social Enterprise category for her […]

Sadly, so-called ‘biodegradable’ or ‘compostable’ cups share the same fate, even contaminating other recyclables. Most people don’t know that unless they are processed in an industrial composting facility, they will last just as long as all other takeaway cups. Worse still, many cups and lids end up in our oceans, where they break up into […]

Over time, one’s drinking habits can change One of the biggest changes we have seen recently is with the younger generations going from sticking with their one or two well-known familiar brands (VB or Jack Daniels, for example) to a myriad of boutique craft beers, whiskeys and wines. In 2017, the range of labels to […]

The coastal city of Port Macquarie last week was blessed with the smell of roasted coffee in the air as the industry judged the countries best roasted coffee. Competition organiser Sean Edwards from Café Culture was honoured to bring this global event back to his home town where the event originated eleven years ago. The […]

Baristas and cafe owners are becoming more fascinated with the often secretive and always coveted art of roasting, and as more information becomes available it has created a desire for coffee lovers to get their hands dirty and experience it first hand. Whether for better understanding of their product or to balance their bottom line, […]

Following on from their success at the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards earlier this year, Alana Beattie, Marketing Director of Coffee Roasters Australia in Arundel, Queensland has now won the major award at the Gold Coast’s prestigious Women in Business awards. Born in NZ, Alana moved to California for her final five years of college […]