Is there really such a thing as a Free Vending Machine? Well not really, if the machine is offered free then normally you will either pay much more for the Tea & Coffee or be tied into a minimum consumption contract, either way you are indirectly paying for the machine and more often than not [...]
MY FAVOURITE FLAVIA COFFEE
June 24th, 2008With so many Flavia freshground coffee’s to choose from it is hard to pick a favourite, but without doubt mine is the Kenyan Dawn.
Not only is it a great tasting coffee with a light, acidic character but as one of the sustainable drinks available from Flavia under the Brighter Tomorrow At Origin programme, each time [...]
SUGAR GIANT TATE & LYLE SWITCH TO FAIRTRADE
June 20th, 2008The Sugar giant Tate & Lyle announced they intend to convert 100% of their retail sugar to Fairtrade. Starting in February 2008 with around 70,000 tonnes of Belize certified sugar to be involved in the first phase, they expect to fully convert the retail range by the end of 2009.
This step will substantially increase the [...]
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO THE TEA BAG
June 17th, 2008Back in June 1908 Thomas Sullivan, a New York City tea merchant “invented” the tea bag by pure chance. To cut his costs Mr Sullivan decided to send out his tea samples in small pouch like purses rather than the traditional tin box. Some confused clients actually dunked the bag containing the tea samples into [...]
FLAVIA SUMATRA COFFEE
June 16th, 2008Description & Tasting notes:-
Sumatra will blow your socks off! If you like a very strong Coffee then pure origin Sumatra from the volcanic soils of Indonesia should be for you. Flavia have a strength guide for there range of Coffee’s and the standard scale is from 1 to 5 but Sumatra is classified as 5+.
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BBC NEWS DETAILS A POSSIBLE BAN ON CIGARETTE VENDING MACHINES
June 12th, 2008A recent BBC News report detailed government plans to outlaw cigarette vending machines as one of a range of measures intended to reduce the number of smokers and improve the health of the Nation. Certainly in recent years the number of cigarette vending machines has reduced dramatically with the sight of a cigarette machine on [...]
PLUMBED-IN WATER COOLERS REPLACING BOTTLED WATER
June 10th, 2008There are now four times as many Plumed-In Water Coolers or Point of Use (POU) as they are known as to the industry, in use in Western Europe than there was in 2002. The numbers have increased from 198,000 to almost 790,000 from 2002-2007 and with the cost and environmental impact of Bottled Water and [...]
COFFEE DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE WORLD (part four)
June 6th, 2008Once coffee had established itself with European and Western markets from the 1800’s onwards the number of countries producing coffee as viable export crop steadily increased.
A “league table” of the top ten world coffee producers based on 2005 figures throws up a few surprises. Vietnam for example only produced 5000 tonnes of coffee just 20 [...]
FLAVIA WASTE 2 ENERGY SCHEME
June 4th, 2008Flavia lead the way with another Green initiative to help the environment.
The Waste 2 Energy Scheme has been created to turn used Flavia filterpacks into energy and has been set up in association with Save-a-Cup, who collect the used sachets which are then sent to an energy plant to be incinerated and turned into electricity [...]
