Blogs Archive - Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

The hot, hot, hot coffee scene in the UK is ‘cooling’, but it is a good thing. The heatwave during the recent late May bank holiday created a surge in iced coffee purchases for the UK hospitality industry.

New transaction data from Square, the global payments platform, shows there was a 137% uplift in iced coffee purchases during the UK heatwave from Friday 22nd to Mon...

If I ever had a ‘senior moment’, it was last week. I knew last Thursday was ‘May 21st‘ but for some reason, it did not register until after the fact that the 21st was also International Tea Day, despite Tea & Coffee Trade Journal promoting it our online and print calendars for months. I am still annoyed at and ...

The first thing I saw when walking into the London Coffee Festival this year was not a barista pulling their latte art skills behind a polished chrome machine. It was a robot.

By the entrance, crowds were gathered around an exhibitor displaying an automated coffee system capable of preparing drinks and even pouring latte art with incredible precision. It was impossible...

I know we have had a lot of coverage surrounding our Women in Tea & Coffee Conference the past couple of weeks and I do not mean to belabour the point, but as it is a young event, one we are proud of, and one we would like to continue to grow, I am going to write about it again.

We developed the Women in Tea & Coffee Conference to celebrate, inspire, support, a...

On 6 May 2026, I attended and helped run our 2nd Annual Women in Tea and Coffee Conference, held in London at The View.

In my eyes, this was not just a key event for Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, but also an exciting opportunity for me – as a man – to gain insight into the world of tea and coffee, strictly from a woman’s perspective. It was certainly enlight...