Our warehouse is full of coffee from around the world.
80% of people use instant coffee in the U.K. However, the espresso market is the fastest growing sector of the ground coffee market.
The 1st coffee house in England was located in Oxford and opened in 1650.
There is a type of bean that is a third larger than other coffee beans and it is called the Elephant bean or Maragogype.
A French sailor; “Capitaine de Clieu”, introduced coffee to the Caribbean. His seedling transported from France went on to flourish and multiply with extraordinary success and by 1777, there were almost 19 million trees all descending from De Clieu’s Plant. A Brazilian spy seduced De Clieu’s wife and managed to obtain enough seeds and shoots to succeed in founding Brazil’s coffee industry; Brazil is now the largest producer of coffee in the world.
7 million tons of green coffee beans are produced every year
When coffee was introduced to Italy the Italian wine merchants were so worried their trade would plummet they asked the Pope to ban it! Unfortunately for the merchants Pope Clementine VIII was so impressed by the aroma and taste, he baptized coffee and pronounced it a Christian beverage.
Our warehouse is full of coffee from around the world.
