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Article: Bumping along with the "C": after living through decades of coffee crises, specialties editor, Donald Schoenholt, offers his sage advice on the coffee market volatility.(Coffee Volatility)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Bette Davis was born in 1908. I've been thinking about her as the 100 anniversary of her birth passes, and of her Oscar-winning portrayal of Margot Channing in All About Eve, Joseph L. Manldewicz' Academy Award winning Best Picture of 1950. I do not know if Davis was a coffee lover, but she was a trouper, and a woman of grit and passion for her work, and we are all going to need some of those commodities in the time to come if independent smaller coffee fee based businesses are going to survive the new reality of a wildly capricious green coffee market.
The "C" contract began to move upward early in the new year. As the market ...