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June 2008
A Cooperative Coffees e-Newsletter for and about Fair Trade
Issue No 1. June 2008
In this issue...
Reach out! |  Above: Jose, Policarpio, Monika, Santiago, and Lee in front of Peace Coffee van at the SCAA. |
Reach out!
Welcome! We are very excited to present you with the very first edition of our new e-newsletter. We hope that this lovely monthly e-mail newsletter will regale, delight, and inform you with stories about the happenings in the world of CoopCoffees, the successes of our roasters, the achievements of our producer partners, and the latest trends in Fair Trade. This newsletter can also serve as a guide to help you discover all the nooks and crannies of our website by showing you where stuff is located on the site.
We look forward to getting your feedback. This newsletter is mean to be an open, communal communication tool, so if you have any suggestions for newsletter topics, materials to contribute, or a response to a past article, feel free to let us know about it by writing to bignews@coopcoffees.com.
Outreach and Special Projects
Coop Coffees Producer Tour with Santiago in Eastern Canada
Following the SCAA’s annual meeting & exhibition, and coinciding with the Fair Trade Weeks (or La Quinzaine du Commerce Équitable, as it is known in Quebec), Cooperative Coffees organised a small producer tour that took place from May 6th to May 10th. Santiago Paz Lopez, the founding manager of CEPICAFE, our long time Coop Coffee partner based in northern Peru, visited several of our Canadian roaster members to talk about his experience in Fair Trade and his vision for the future of the movement. Read on...
You can also read a summary of Santiago’s presentation here
Report on SCAA’s Conference & Exhibition 2008
The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) held its 20th Annual Conference and Exhibition from May 2nd to 5th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Every year, this association brings together thousands of coffee producers, roasters, retailers, importers and exporters from all around the world to meet, discuss, shop and network. Cooperative Coffees hosted a booth on the trade floor of coffee industry’s biggest event, where we had the opportunity to meet with roaster members and producer partners, and explore the possibility of establishing new partnerships. Read on ...
Roaster News
Within the framework of the SCAA’s annual meeting and conference in
Minneapolis in May 2008, three Cooperative Coffees members, namely
Peace Coffee, Kickapoo and Just Coffee, organized a producer tour in
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The purpose of this visit was to reduce the
gap between consumers and producers by building relationships and
understanding through roasters. The delegation of producers got to
visit roaster members’ operations, ask questions, share opinions and
discuss Fair Trade benefits with consumers and members of Coop Coffees. Read on...
National Book Award for Dean Cycon of Dean’s Beans
 | Cooperative Coffees’ member Dean Cycon, the founder and owner of Dean’s
Beans in Orange, Massachusetts, just received the National Book Award
from the Independent Publisher Book awards in the Travel Essay category for his book Javatrekker: Dispatches from the world of fair trade coffee.
Through nine different stories taking place in nine different
countries, Dean brings readers along on his travels to coffee lands and
offers a better understanding of the global trade and culture of
coffee. Congratulations Dean, from all CC’s team! |
Producer News
One of the latest cooperatives with whom we are developing a trading partnership is ACOES La Concordia based in the Western part of El Salvador. They are a very small group of around 20 members. Their size, though, is certainly not an indicator of their strength as a coop or of their tenacity in face of challenges. Their first international export was the half container we purchased from them in March of this year. Read more about this group.
To read detailed descriptions of all our producer partners, click here.
Travel: Where in the World is Coop Coffees?
Coop Coffees’ new office in Montreal
A group of Coop Coffees staff, roasters, and clients are in Peru at the moment, visiting with some of our producer partners. We'll have a travel report for you about that trip next month (To read all the latest trip reports, click here). However, Coop Coffees has recently undergone another kind of travel...that`s right, a major shift has occurred in Montreal: the Canadian Coop Coffees team has moved out of Monika Firl’s lovely apartment and into a new office!
We are sharing the space with a great local organization, the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America. They help support grassroots movements and defend human rights in Latin America. We’re excited to get to know our officemates, and to add the signature CC decorative flair to these bare walls!
Our phone (1-514-907-9853 ext 3) and fax (1-514-221-3611) numbers are the same, but please take note of our new address:
211 Jarry E. St.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H2P 1T6
The latest in the Fair Trade movement
Rise of Minimum Price for Arabica Coffee
On June 1, 2008, the Fairtrade certified coffee producers will receive at least 1,25USD per pound of Arabica. After almost a year of research and analysis, FLO International decided to increase the minimum price of Arabica coffee of 0,05USD to allow farmers to cover the costs of sustainable production.
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