Gen Z has never known a workplace – Blendly.co.uk

Once you’ve had the sweet, sweet taste of working in your jogger set from your couch, it’s hard to give it up. Plus, having no commute can mean a better work-life balance,

These new views on flexibility might require employers to relax where, when, and how work gets done—does it really matter if the person did their work at their desk or a coffee shop, as long as they made their EOD deadline? Four out of five hybrid or remote workers say that having control over how work is completed was a reason they took their current job.

Still, it’s not all thumbs up for employers: rolling out the virtual welcome mat and helping new coworkers feel a sense of belonging can be difficult, and harmful “in group” and “out group” dynamics can crop up. Real inclusion is hard enough, and creating a better company culture without everyone in the same room is a work in progress.

Offices are evolving, looking toward the future, thinking about new—and different—talent, and just taking in Gen Z’s new vibe: we’re often less formal, look for personal investment from our bosses, and question the status quo. Having a hybrid work option goes on that list too.

 

Blendly.co.uk Sustainable Coffee Marketplace (PaaS)


Blendly.co.uk  allows greater access to  the global coffee marketplace by centralizing green beans, production, and distribution values into a central Data Algorithm allowing more people to choose the beans that go into their favorite cup of coffee giving everyone accessible transparent sustainable fresher coffee

The global coffee market was valued at USD 102.02 billion in 2020 and is made up of a supply chain that consists of three components Green Beans, Roasting. The distribution of these three components combined to create the everyday flavors and tastes that make up the everyday cup of coffee.

Blendly operates a unique service is it is the first to allow the blending process that currently is only available in commercial coffee roasters to be accessed over the internet and for customers to create a coffee blend in accordance with taste and price from a global inventory of green beans.

This marketplace launched in 2016 since then we have continued to develop the tools that manage the coffee in its supply chain keeping stock freshers and more predictable on-demand with an intelligent predictive subscription service that manages the volumes and frequency making sure you never run out of fresh coffee

We are fundraising to scale the model further nationally and internationally to the growing market of consumers where the demand for high-quality, barista-style coffee – is showing considerable growth This unique service is it is the first to allow the blending process that is traditionally only available in commercial via coffee roasters to be accessed over entirely the internet

Energy Prices are Affecting Coffee Prices in UK

The rising energy prices in the United Kingdom have a significant effect on the cost of coffee.

It’s Inevitable that product prices are going to rise and we expect these increases early in 2023, these prices will take effect at the end of January  2023 Energy has been only one of the causes of high inflation that has been driving up prices, but the future could begin to look brighter,

The BoE’s most recent forecasts already showed inflation falling and some commentators are looking at the effect of BOE Monterey policy that this trend continues  Inflation has fallen consistently since hitting a 41-year-high of 11.1% in October.

Despite the numbers ” we are all harmed by High inflation ” for all of our Coffee Customers we are doing all we can to help create more value increasing transparency and increasing access to a wider range of options on your coffee

Having a coffee blend with blendly allows you to adapt and change your coffee profile to take account of every economic situation and over the coming weeks we be reaching out to help you build value to what you do every day

and we will continue to work to help you take advantage of the current economic climate and allow you to create and prototype coffee blends that and based on current commodity values

The Blendly Marketplace offers a simpler way of developing your coffee brand  The rise in energy prices affects all stages of the coffee production process, from the growing of the coffee beans to the transportation and storage of the finished product.

 

Sustainability – A Tool Box Approach to Building Sustainable Value

Blendly developed a Tool Box of services available at the Blendly.co.uk that allows its Global Consumers to consider their coffee environment strategically and See their local communities as part of their extended marketplace.

Allowing them to consider greater opportunities to a growing number of  customers that are looking for more transparency in their coffee and are interested in engaging new services and new local brands. 

The tool Box is build on a strategic underpinning that is part of the On Going education that is provided by the growing number of of regional E – Procurement consultants who create value by working with clients to create and develop local opportunities, engaging wider networks as part of their E- procurement role, creating new distribution channels, initiatives that can be part of local innovation. Allowing local brands to expand into new markets  creating new opportunities.

Blendly.co.uk offer local fulfillment on their coffee blends allowing the local brands to be sold online and distributed digitally allowing local operators to develop local products based on their Knowledge of the Blendly.co.uk Platform.

If you like to understand more about blendly.co.uk and the services that create sustainable value then why not reach out and contact sales@blendly.co.uk

Sustainability – ESG Tools that build value into your coffee Blendly.co.uk

Blendly.co.uk understand that transparency is at the heart of creating sustainability.  And sustainable development which meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is how we understand our world

Blendly.co.uk Give building blocks and tools that can build value, Educate and help others create value, and opportunity in their local communities while allowing greater access to information

Blendly.co.uk understands that we and our palates are unique. Blendly marketplace tools allow users to develop great-tasting unique coffee by mixing the commodities that make up your everyday bag of coffee, providing them with the opportunity to share that experience with others.

Blendly.co.uk marketplace tools were developed to better integrate the components of coffee into the lives of coffee lovers, enabling us to create unique coffee flavours and tastes, and provide a platform to allow everyone to develop the skills needed to produce great coffee.

Blendly.co.uk blend repository is part of the blendly.co.uk range of coffee tools that has been developed over years of roasting coffee for customers all over the country. It contains feedback from baristas and customers that use the Blendly.co.uk marketplace.

The blendly.co.uk blend repository allows an instant understanding of the makeup of coffee flavours that are tested by the many professional baristas and coffee lovers that use the market place every day to get the best from their coffee.

The Blend repository is a published repository of recipes based around the commodities that are used to create coffee blends and have been used, tested and tasted served by baristas and customers all over the country

The Blend repository allows you  to replicate the flavour of global and local brands, and contains the cupping notes that can be used to reference the creation of your own unique brand

With so many coffee brands and so many coffee distributors, the blendly.co.uk  team can help you develop your own blend and create the cupping notes then publish the results.  Every Online account allows you to create and publish your own cupping notes, so that you can evaluate and taste match of many of the worlds global and local brands and compare your own findings with others.

Building your own cupping notes is building your own brand based on your ability to develop your palate from the various flavour components, roasts and serving methods. Understand that local conditions can affect the flavour of your coffee blend. This ability to understand the mix of beans, the local conditions and the way the coffee is served helps extend your skills and understanding to friends, family and colleagues.

Blendly.co.uk marketplace tools can be accessed through a range of account types that allow the full range of the your skills to be managed. As you build your understanding of coffee, you can change your subscription service and take advantage of volumised pricing and delivery options.  Upgrading your subscription service gives you a gateway to blends published by other marketplace users,  helping you build knowledge and skills. The blendly.co.uk marketplace also helps manage your coffee stock, whether for home or business. Predictive Ordering allows you to automatically manage your coffee, keeping it fresh and available when you need it.  Predictive ordering also allows you to manage other peoples coffee supply, whether for home, office, family or friends. Blendly.co.uk marketplace tools are constantly evolving and allow you to input into the ongoing development of the marketplace.

Blendly.co.uk marketplace is built for coffee lovers and at its heart is sustainability and transparency to help us grow.  Our ongoing mission is to develop new tools, create new opportunities and establish new routes to market and share these within the blendly.co.uk coffee marketplace. We will work to create and develop innovation with partners and coffee drinkers and extend our tools across the global supply chain using our revenue sharing system developed around our barista Distributor programme.  This is a key feature of our ongoing strategy to promote sustainable thinking and development within the Blendly.co.uk marketplace and it is our aim to extend this across the larger networks that we work with and manage.

If you like to work with the Blendly Marketplace, you can reach out to us at blendly.co.uk

Supply Chain Sustainability In The Coffee Industry Blendly.co.uk

Over the years the coffee industry has developed relationships that in some cases are generational, relationships that have developed around the individual actors that make up the current global coffee supply chain. 

The Modern coffee supply chain is complex. Oliver and Webber conceived the term of a supply chain as to describe a “network of organizations that are involved, through upstream and downstream linkages, in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of products and services in the hands of the ultimate consumer”

The relationships between regional government policies – that allow agriculture and farmers , that grow the crops, the local processing plants that grade and check quality, the shipping companies that export to countries where commodities are stored in warehouses to be drawn into production, manufacturing and distribution to eventually go to create the everyday cup of coffee. 

These relationships also as it is  more and more understood that modern supply chain systems have to move beyond the interests of the individual and focus on the  “ ‘development which meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 

Blendly.co.uk is building its relationships around transparency – allowing more of the actors in the coffee marketplace to develop services around the everyday demand for coffee, giving greater access to build and develop the “ needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 

If you would like more information on how blendly.co.uk can help yo create distribute and build greater value then reach out for further information contact sales@blendly.co.uk

 

 

Blendly.co.uk Sustainability in the Coffee Industry 

Sustainability and The notion of ‘sustainability’ emerged in The Ecologist’s A Blueprint for Survival, in 1972. The quest to make modern civilization ‘sustainable’ inspired the UN’s Stockholm Conference in 1972 and the ‘global trusteeship’ of subsequent international environmental treaties. ‘Sustainability’ is related to ‘futurity’, hence the Brundtland Commission in 1987 defined sustainable development as

 ‘development which meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 

The innovation of today and its impact on the future generations of tomorrow – History has many examples of innovations’ best intentions and over time the unforeseeable circumstances that technology and innovation have created 

Yet cycles of innovation do bring change – Allowing us to do old things in new ways 

To Do new things in new ways  all help Transform as well as the creation of new business models that better understand and bridge the needs of the present with the needs of the future generations

With technology and information providing greater insight into the needs of the future blendly.co.uk is working on a more sustainable supply chain and is part of this innovation cycle and its contribution to developing more sustainable innovation in the coffee industry 

If you like to learn more about blendly.co.uk reach out and learn more 

Blendly – Circular Economy Aims to Redefine Growth, Focusing on Positive, Community Benefits for All

Today’s Circular Economy aims to redefine growth, focusing on positive, community benefits for all. It also redefines and rethinks how we produce consumer goods – from furniture and technological products to fashion, and of course, food & drink products such as coffee.

Blendly is absolutely on the money for all of this, with a range of Barista Business Plans which bring benefit to both the Barista and the community he is a part of.  He has the potential to grow his own business within Blendly, with plenty of practical help and support coming from us, plus collaboration from other Baristas on the plan.  The Circular Economy idea fits with our ethos that there is real value in creating something unique to ourselves. The purchase is more meaningful, and our customers, which cover trade & consumer, know the provenance of the ingredients they are using to create their own coffee blends, as we provide them with this information.

We’ve done a lot of the hard work already for our customers, ensuring that we have a wide selection of sustainably sourced, high quality coffee beans from all over the world in stock. We sell at transparent prices; we have our own roasting facilities to custom roast the beans to clients bespoke requirements, and we distributes the coffee, with our trade customers, many of whom run coffee shops, hotels, and restaurants, receiving a commission through the flexible and easy to use Barista Business plans.

In a circular economy, economic activity builds and rebuilds an overall system – for it to be effective it has to work across all levels – both large and small businesses, across individuals and organisations, and at both a global and local level. All of this is true of Blendly as you can start small but soon get bigger with us. Our business is both global, tapping into worldwide coffee markets, but also very local, helping the guy in the deli improve his range of coffee beans and perhaps sell on some blends to other businesses, or people he knows who love good coffee.

Getting involved with Blendly is inspiring, with creativity and flair coming into play to create the perfect coffee, and it boosts knowledge  – in this case it’s learning about coffee beans, and how they combine to create the perfect blend for us.

Digital food and drink services have never been so important to millennial customers, so we are delighted to be playing our part in this, and in this new circular economy model.  We are the only company in the world to aggregate all three steps needed for the production and supply of a cup of artisan coffee.

With Blendly, customers are basically tapping into our vibrant coffee marketplace which is entirely online, selling coffee and engaging with customers 365 days of the year. The Barista plans offer a unique interface where you can swap ideas, share advice, and benefit from our business “tools” which cover topics such as stock control, E procurement, equipment care, and distribution. 

Cutting edge technology is at the heart of Blendly, ticking another box for the circular economy. We are soon to benefit from specialist funding which will help develop a predictive ordering platform, of huge benefit to our trade customers. Being able to connect, measure, mathematically model and predict each component within the food security supply chain – from the purchase of coffee commodities through to the preparation of the final cup – will be critical to Blendly’s success in the coming months. We very much hope that by being able to instantly adapt to a volatile commodities, economic and consumer environment, we will have the edge.

On a day to day basis for domestic customers, when they order their coffee at the click of a button, their coffee choices are delivered to their home in three working days.  They can match favorite High Street Coffee Shop blends, or even buy the coffee that existing

Blendly corporate hospitality businesses are giving to their customers anywhere in the world. The latter can be done through the Blendly website, or even whilst at the venue, where a unique QR code enables instant ordering. 

We all want our commodities instantly available. Artisan food & drink services accessed online, such as Blendly, are very much here to stay, of that there is no doubt.

The customer is clearly the winner as we yield much lower running costs, and can pass these savings onto the customer, whilst feeding profit back into our business. Customers can access great coffee 24/7 anywhere in the world!

Further details on Blendly at www.blendly.co.uk

What your favourite coffee says about you?

From veterans to newbie coffee lovers.

Picture yourself sitting in your favourite spot sipping on a decedent steaming hot cup of coffee, not too hot that it burns your lips but just warm enough to give you that feeling of pure bliss. As you take the first sip you feel the warm caffeine trickle down your throat and a smile begins to perk up on your lips. No matter what type of coffee you drink, all coffee lovers experience that feeling of pure bliss when they sink into their favourite cup of coffee. The question here is what does the coffee you drink say about you?

Cappuccino 

Espresso and frothed or steamed milk.

This coffee is made for individuals that don’t mind taking their time and enjoying the creation process of their classic Italian drink. You’re a person that likes the anticipation and reward for making the perfect cup. You still enjoy the flavour and feeling of coffee, but you want something a little extra.

Café mocha

Espresso, Fat Free Milk, Cocoa Powder

You love your coffee, but you love your sweets as well. Nothing looks better than having your drink in a beautiful glass.

Irish coffee

Whiskey, Double Espresso, Whipped Pouring Cream, Sugar

You’re a person that works hard and parties harder or sometimes even a combination of both. It’s a flavour only for the brave, a flavour that packs a heavy punch. A strong drink like an Irish coffee needs a strong bean like a Colombian Excelso Bean.

Tried and tested. PLAIN COFFEE 

Hot Water and Instant Coffee or Ground Coffee

You’re a go-getter that just needs a quick kick at whatever time of the day. Nothing fancy but something just to get the job done. Some might see you as a plain Jane, however, people don’t realise how special the drink you’re having is. This drink is the most popular coffee of all time.

 

So drink that coffee with pride knowing there are countless others that are enjoying the same drink as you. You’ll already be done and out the door with the first cup, while everyone is still trying to pull themselves together.

 

Regardless of your style or blend of coffee, use our blend creator to jump-start your day the right way. If you are new to blending try our taste matcher to start your coffee journey. We are here to help you achieve your ideal flavouring but in the meantime feel free to learn more about which combinations provide which flavours on our cupping notes page.

Why Your Coffee Shop Should Be Full of Sharers

According to the global research platform Allegra World Coffee Portal estimates 100% growth in the coffee sector by 2020, outpacing the conventional coffee market year on year.

But who is drinking in these coffee houses. A new report from Vision Critical and crowd companies takes a look at sharers in the UK, US and Canada, concluding that collaboration is now mainstream.

The report breaks participants in the collaborative economy into 3 segments:

  • “Neo-Sharers” – those who have in the past year used at least one of several “emergent” sharing services, such as Etsy, Arbnb and Kickstarter;
  • “Re-Sharers” – defined as those who “buy and/or sell pre-owned goods online using well-established services like eBay and Craigslist,” but who have yet to graduate to neo-sharer status; and
  • “Non-Sharers” – those yet to participate, but many of whom intend to in the next year.

A closer look at neo-sharers – the early adopters, so to speak – reveals that they account for some 16% of the US and Canadian adult populations and 29% of the UK population. Re-sharers, meanwhile, comprise about 23% of the population in the US and UK and one-quarter in Canada.

Together, neo- and re-sharers therefore constitute about 40% of the US and Canadian populations and about half of the UK population.