By Rudy Ruitenberg – Feb 9, 2012 9:06 AM GMT-0200Illycaffe SpA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Illy said coffee-price swings caused by declining stockpiles are “disruptive” to business. Following are comments he made at the “Feeding the World” meeting organized by Economist Conferences in Geneva yesterday.“The market nowadays is unpredictable. It’s difficult to manage such volatility […]
17/01/2012 Brazil’s Next Coffee Crop May Fall Short of Demand, Broker Says BLOOMBERG (USA) The next coffee crop in Brazil, the world’s largest producer, may not be enough to meet domestic and export demand even with record production forecast, according to Escritorio Carvalhaes, a Santos, Brazil-based broker. Coffee output in Brazil may rise […]
Mexico Coffee Exports Rose Almost 23% in December, Amecafe Says BLOOMBERG (USA) Coffee exports from Mexico jumped nearly 23 percent in December, according to figures from a local industry group. Shipments climbed to 163,190 bags from 133,202 bags in the same period a year earlier, national coffee association Amecafe said in an e-mailed statement […]
08/01/2012Entre los cafés de mayor prestigio y calidad por su lugar de procedencia destacan:Jamaica. Blue Montain:Se cultiva en las “montañas azules” de Jamaica a 2.000 metros de altitud. Es el más exquisito del mundo y de mayor cotización en el mercado. Su producción es limitada. Es un café de sabor suave y persistente, poco ácido, […]
Costa Rica’s Coffee Shipments Rose 2.6% in December, Icafe Says BLOOMBERG (USA) Coffee exports from Costa Rica climbed 2.6 percent last month, according to the Costa Rican Coffee Institute, known as Icafe. Shipments totaled 78,300 bags of 60 kilograms (132 pounds) in December, up from 76,322 bags a year earlier, Icafe said yesterday in […]
Café et sucre reculent encoreAutres matières premières agricoles phares, le sucre et le café se sont fait remarquer par de nouvelles baisses la semaine dernière. Sur le Liffe de Londres, la tonne de robusta pour livraison en mars valait 1768 dollars vendredi et sur le NYBoT-ICE à New York, la livre d’arabica valait 226 cents. […]
26/12/2011 Coffee in EMs: coming full circle FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) Italy’s coffee roasters are turning to emerging markets as demand there is set to overtake developed markets in the next few years. This has yielded an interesting and potentially lucrative phenomenon – beans supplied by producers like Brazil are finding their way back […]
23/11/2011 BLOOMBERG (USA) Coffee’s biggest slump in three years may be ending as weather damages crops from Colombia to Indonesia, reducing U.S. inventories to the lowest since 2000 just as Kraft Foods Inc. and J.M. Smucker Co. cut prices. Stockpiles in warehouses monitored by ICE Futures U.S. fell 16 percent since December, declining for […]
World exports in the 2010/2011 coffee year (October 2010 to September 2011) increased by about 9.4% to 103.1 million bags, compared with about 94.3 million bags in the previousperiod . The result corresponds to a volume historical record informs the International Coffee Organization (ICO).In the 2010/2011 crop year, which ended last September, the export of […]
The flowering of coffee trees in the main producing regions of Brazil this month is good, but nothing exceptional, according to the director of the Council of Coffee Exporters of Brazil (Cecafé), Guilherme Braga. The flowering stage is closely monitored because it is an indicator of the size and health of the crop. Braga provides […]
Coffee: commercialization of the 2011 Brazilian crop reaches 56% The marketing of the coffee crop in Brazil 2011/12 (July / June) closed the month of September in 56% of the total. The data is part of raising Safras & Mercado, based on information collected up to September 30. They already were sold by Brazilian producers […]
17/10/2011 Vietnam Attracts Coffee Companies Seeking Supply, Dreyfus SaysBLOOMBERG (USA) International companies are expanding in Vietnam, the world’s largest producer of robusta coffee, to ensure supplies after local traders failed to fill contracts, according to Louis Dreyfus Commodities SA. Disputes between exporters in growing countries and members of the Swiss Coffee Trade Association increased after prices jumped […]
The discount buyers are demanding for coffee from Vietnam, the world’s largest producer of the robusta variety, has narrowed in the past week as rains may delay the crop started thismonth, traders said. Beans from the 2011-12 season are selling at a discount of $50 to $60 a metric ton to the price on the […]
Coffee futures rose the most since August on signs of increased demand, including from Brazil, the world’s largest grower and exporter. Inventories at European ports fell by 0.1 percent to 13.64 million bags as of Aug. 31, the European Coffee Federation said today. While farmers in Brazil may harvest a record crop in 2012, an […]
ICE Nesta manha o mercado de café arábica em Nova Iorque trabalha cotado a 226,25 com 190 pontos de alta e range entre 225,10 e 227,20, base dec/11. Após um forte movimento de queda assistido na última sexta-feira, a cotação do café nesta manhã vem trabalhando com moderada tendência de correção, acompanhando de certa forma […]