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American luxury department store chain, Bloomingdales, will stock Bean There Coffee during the month of July to celebrate the launch of Disney’s The Lion King.  The live-action remake of the…

Africa Day, which takes place on 25 May aims to celebrate the continent’s vibrant and diverse history and identity. One of the continent’s biggest exports is coffee, with the Sub-Saharan…

The South African market is a cutthroat place to set up shop and many entrepreneurs struggle to find their footing. For local success story Khanyiso Dumisana of Journey Coffee, his…

A new initiative called Tip the Farmer is bringing South Africans closer to the people who grow their coffee. Launching on National Coffee Day, which takes place on 29 September,…

Good quality coffee could become a luxury product, priced out of the market. The culprit is climate change, with altered temperatures and rain patterns taking a toll on the conditions…

Many of the most powerful business ideas have been hatched over a cup of coffee. Multi-million dollar lines of code, grand mergers, groundbreaking innovations and classic works of art have…

Bean There Coffee Company, South Africa’s first roaster of certified direct fair trade coffee has launched their latest, limited-edition Olga’s Reserve. Founder Jonathan Robinson was introduced to coffee by his…

  Bean There Coffee Company, South Africa’s first roaster of certified direct fair trade coffee has launched their latest, limited-edition Olga’s Reserve. Founder Jonathan Robinson was introduced to coffee by…

“My grandmother Olga, introduced me to coffee when I was about 12. She used to drink it black with a square of dark chocolate. She’d say to us as kids,…

A while ago, a potential investor in local roastery Bean There Coffee Company told the owner, Jonathan Robinson, that the company wasn’t making enough money; “He said to me, ‘your…