Starbucks
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Getting fair funding into farmers’ pockets
MICHIAL SALLAETS on a $5m investment fund aimed at improving smallholders’ lives as well as helping their business grow. Getting finance for their small-scale businesses in a fair and sustainable way… Read More
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First ever 100% recycled cup
THE COMPANY best-known for making the Comic Relief Red Noses and the plastic ruler has come up with another first. After years of research, Invicta Plastics has created the world’s first rigid and durable products made solely from regular… Read More
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My viewpoint
STARBUCKS MIGHT have got the (unwanted) headlines, but independent coffee shops are very much part of one of the UK’s biggest news stories of 2012. phil howells, who part-owns the Manchester coffee shop Caffeine and Co, says it could be… Read More
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Starbucks introduces reusable cups in US
EVER GOT to the supermarket and forgotten to bring the 63 plastic bags you have at home? Its not easy being green, but Starbucks is relying on its customers to help it cut waste. The coffee chain is rolling… Read More
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Footprint Annual Review: Cheap milk, pricey gas and unethical coffee
THE TOP stories of 2012, from Starbucks’ tax travails to rising energy bills and the “greenest Olympics ever”. January/February With the mince pies sitting heavily around the waistline and the influence of festive parties still coursing through the veins,… Read More
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Starbucks to pay more tax
THE ONLY things certain in life are death and taxes. Unless you are Google, Amazon or Starbucks, of course. But in an unprecedented move, the latter has now decided to pay corporation tax in the UK above what is… Read More
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Whiter than white?
FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES talk a good game when it comes to supporting British dairy farmers, but few are willing to divulge details of the price they are paying for milk. … Read More
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Starbucks accused of tax avoidance
THE COFFEE chain Starbucks has reportedly paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in the UK over the last 14 years. News agency Reuters carried out a four-month investigation looking at how the company was able to tell investors… Read More
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Coffee chains must “pay a bit more” for milk
THE HEAD of one of the UKs biggest milk buyers and dairy processors has suggested that the likes of Costa and Starbucks need to pay more for their milk. … Read More