Indian coffee growers cheer as robusta production drops globally, prices hit record highIndia's robusta coffee prices skyrocket to Rs 10,080 per 50 kg, a historic high. Growers face challenges, but the surge brings relief. Supp...
13 Apr, 2024, 09.31 AM IST
Tata Group may lose control of 942-acre Karnataka tea estateIn April 2008, revenue authorities had changed the nature of the vast tea estate, under Tata Coffee's lease, as "forest land" from "sagu" l...
23 Dec, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
Tata Group denies reports it may lose control of 942-acre Karnataka tea estateTata Coffee is a subsidiary of Tata Consumer Products. It is Asia’s second largest exporter of instant coffee, with revenue of about Rs 2,2...
21 Dec, 2021, 01.33 PM IST
Mirras Coffee to expand retail business to South this yearThe Mirra Group of Companies was marketing filter coffee only in Chennai and Coimbatore at present. During this year, it would expand to Ka...
27 Nov, 2020, 04.23 PM IST
Coffee worth Rs. 400 cr piling up at curing centres, portsThe United Planters’ Association of Southern India (Upasi) has written to the Coffee Board that 21,000 tonnes of coffee worth Rs. 400 crore...
08 Apr, 2020, 10.57 AM IST
Tata Coffee launches e-commerce platformThe website debuts with three variants of luxury single origin specialty coffee named 'The Sonnets-The voice of our estates.'
04 Mar, 2020, 01.04 PM IST
Karnataka Planters’ Association (KPA) estimates coffee production to be down by 30-35% in 2019-20KPA chairman M B Ganapathy told media-persons at Bengaluru that like last time the current year too has been challenging considering the va...
11 Nov, 2019, 06.54 PM IST
A month after VG Siddhartha's demise, CCD founder's father passes awayGangaiah Hegde passed away in Mysuru after prolonged illness.
27 Aug, 2019, 01.59 PM IST
Flood damage may slash India's coffee output by 20 per cent : Trade bodySome of the worst flooding in India in a century killed hundreds of people in the southern states of Kerala and Karnataka earlier this mont...
23 Aug, 2018, 04.23 PM IST
How better pricing is driving companies to introduce single-origin chocolates and beveragesIndia is the world’s second largest producer and fourth biggest exporter of tea, and tea is both the world’s and India’s most preferred bev...
03 Feb, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
Income Tax raids Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha’s officesInitial reports said the IT teams conducted searches at about 20 locations including at Siddhartha’s residence in Bengaluru, his Coffee Day...
21 Sep, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
Starbucks opens 25th store in India, completes one yearTata Starbucks today launched a new coffee labelled India Estates Blend, which is specially sourced, roasted and packaged domestically.
21 Oct, 2013, 04.05 PM IST
Replantation scheme likely for corporates, cooperativesGovernment is in an advanced stage of considering a proposal to increase the cost of replanting in coffee estates and subsidy limits and al...
27 Sep, 2012, 03.07 PM IST
- Planters woo connoisseurs with single-estate coffee
With domestic coffee consumption reaching 35% of country’s output, plantations want to tap connoisseur pockets with new products such as si...
17 Jan, 2011, 12.26 AM IST
- Karnataka govt serves Rs 423-cr purchase tax notice on Coffee Board
IT doesn’t get more bizarre than this even for the second-most widely traded commodity in the world. Coffee Board, which comes under the ad...
16 Mar, 2007, 04.31 AM IST
- Coffee estate bungalows plugged as homestays
Coffee estate owners in Wayanad are increasingly looking at homestays as alternative revenue stream given the fluctuating coffee prices and...
30 Jan, 2007, 03.43 AM IST
- Plantations may get cover from vagaries of weather
The Planning Commission’s sub-group on the plantation sector has mooted the putting in place of a weather-linked insurance scheme to protec...
09 Nov, 2006, 12.28 AM IST