by Ben Fahy | Nov 17, 2022 | Opinion
When Matt Lamason started Peoples Coffee in Wellington in 1994, he was in his early 20s and was a self-described “hardcore Fairtrade guy” who “wanted to make a difference in the world through coffee”. He says he wasn’t too comfortable talking about money and wealth...
by Ben Fahy | Nov 16, 2022 | Opinion
After years spent studying shifts in consumer preferences, market researcher Peter Tait is worried that New Zealand is in danger of missing out on the economic benefits that come from more sustainable production – and that we’re not doing enough to address...
by Ben Fahy | Nov 10, 2022 | Opinion
The second installment from Ben Fahy’s series on the coffee business in Aotearoa and beyond. Jesse Newson, the chief executive of Coffee Supreme, recently returned from a trip to Japan. For obvious reasons, it had been a few years since he’d visited Supreme’s...
by Ben Fahy | Nov 3, 2022 | Opinion
For most New Zealanders, coffee is a ritual. For a few, it’s a business. In this new weekly series, we talk to a range of different New Zealand coffee companies at different stages of growth and with different ownership structures to find out how they got there, if...
by Ben Fahy | Aug 25, 2022 | Opinion
If you wanted to see up close the pressures that farming is under – and then see how to respond with flair – a visit to Oakland’s Farm in Stoke is in order. Whether it’s dealing with recent floods, climate action, urbanisation, falling milk prices, crop...
