The coffee world has been upside down since the Covid pandemic. Delayed shipments, high coffee prices, and challenges for producers, traders, and roasteries. Add frost and drought in Brazil to that, and nothing is the way it was a short time ago. This podcast is intended to be a compass for everyone in the coffee industry to navigate through the coming months.
In this episode: Robert Heuveldop, Managing Partner List & Beisler
In this special edition of our Kaffeemacher podcast, I talk to people who are analyzing the current situation, clarifying issues, and asking important new questions. Everyone who works with coffee in any way is already feeling the changes, or will be in a few weeks at the latest.
We publish a new episode of Coffea Economica every Sunday evening. In this episode, I talk to Robert Heuveldop from List & Beisler.
Robert Heuveldop, List & Beisler
In conversation with Philipp Schallberger, the focus is on the fundamental principles of coffee trading. Robert Heuveldop provides a crash course on how the coffee trade works.
- "Roasteries must not, under any circumstances, use a salami-slicing tactic of quality downgrading now. That would be the biggest mistake."
- "For specialty coffees for the big players, the margin is around 1-2%. For conventional coffee, it is near zero. For specialty coffees for smaller roasteries, it is just under 10%."
- On direct trade: "It also makes no sense for every roaster to take on all these functions that we perform. That would be incredibly inefficient. And high costs are always at the expense of the coffee farmer."
Next episode: 16.1.2022 with Andreas Felsen, Quijote Kaffee
