Category: Low Carbon Coffee Roasting

There’s no disputing that coffee breaks are a great opportunity to relax and unwind but also serve to enhance productivity levels, increase focus, and lowers stress levels at work. Raimonda Iškauskaitė, writing for the European Social Entrepreneurship and Innovative Studies Institute, draws attention to the importance of coffee breaks by helping individuals to connect with colleagues and providing an opportunity to clear your head.

Time for a break…

The unprecedented move by the UK Government calling for society to implement social distancing strategies to help slow down the spread of Covid-19   has inevitably resulted in an increased number of organisations encouraging employees to work from home as part of a business continuity plan and naturally, teams are coming together in online coffee breaks.

Stay focused…

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams gained 12 Million users in the past week thanks to Coronavirus, imagine the stress such a move can cause at having to redesign the way you work and collaborate with colleagues overnight.  Productivity issues may arise as a result of distractions associated with working in all too familiar environment, others less quick to adapt to new  technologies may worry about creating bottlenecks in workflow.

Switch off for a while

As part of a coping strategy, online coffee breaks can help overcome periods of stress and eliminate the feeling of loneliness and isolation, boosting camaraderie between individuals and teams. In Dr Pernille Stroebaek’s paper “Let’s Have a Cup of Coffee! Coffee and Coping Communities at Work”, communities of coping were created through coffee break encounters, though it was noted these were often difficult spaces for newcomers to enter.  For new employees, online coffee breaks can be the game changer, allowing them to build connections with new colleagues.  Online coffee breaks provide a platform for newcomers to learn more about the organisation, people and culture and help build closer working relationships.

Grab that Eureka moment

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that suggests social cohesion is fundamental to job satisfaction and performance.  High performing organisations recognise how coffee breaks add value to this.  Casual chats over coffee serve as fountains of human creativity; how many times has someone said they had a Eureka moment over a simple chat and a cup of coffee?  Could your breakthrough come from an online coffee break?

Let Blendly be the catalyst to your coffee break

Blendly.co.uk is your partner of choice for your online coffee break.  The Blendly online marketplace allows users to select a from a wide range of speciality green beans, blend and roast to their specification and have delivered to their door within 72 hours of ordering.  Barista accounts are perfect for teams to create their own blends.  Once a blend is created, a unique blend code is assigned which can be shared with team members. Blends can be delivered either whole bean or ground for espresso, cafetière or filter.  Give your team a boost and send them a bag of your freshly created blend!

 

For most of us, you have used the same supplier for some time. Like most companies that have a need for commercial coffee, you will use a national coffee brand, a local coffee distributor or a local roaster. With the commodity pricing being at a 3 year low, interest rates at a lifetime low for asset purchases allowing even more value on the delivery of your coffee, perhaps it’s the time to look at your current coffee offering.

Blendly E-Procurement is designed to promote transparent pricing, giving channel customers access to core real-time green bean data. This creates building blocks to create your own  coffee brand which enables further development of your coffee offering giving you fresher coffee with your own branding straight from our factory gate.

Our coffee service also enables you to manage your stock, keeping it fresher and secure via our online service and with your own branding. This increases retail and online sales as well as creates a new type of dialogue with your customers.

Changing is easy, we have an e-procurement team that can advise with coffee brand development and asset values as well as program installation from the comfort of your own office.

If you need any help to start building your own coffee brand, you can reach us through our social media channels, email, phone or through our live chat.

Blendly announces the appointment of Johnathan Gray as Area Commercial Manager for eSales Development – Blendly Commercial Coffee Marketplace for Glasgow and west of Scotland.

Johnathan has spent many years working in the Hospitality Industry in the UK and overseas and brings international experience and insight to the growing number of companies that are looking to build greater value around their coffee product and seek to make an impact in the growing coffee market at a local and national level.

Johnathan Gray will provide clients a range of opportunities which include helping them access the green bean market, roast and create their own blends and drive higher gross margins.

According to Johnathan Gray, “I’m delighted to join the Blendly team and am excited at the prospect of helping independent café owners (leverage the services of Blendly Commercial Coffee Roaster Marketplace) by enabling them to level the playing field on the high street and increase resilience to the market pressures that exist when competing against large chain cafés. 

With a focus on the global coffeeconsumer that builds its daily routines around, the independent cafes are the cornerstone of communities and the driving force for innovation in the café market; I aim to make Blendly the partner of choice in their journey.”

Blendly has a systems approach to fresh coffee. The service offers predictive ordering, E-Procurement, self-branding  with brand repository based around a centralized global inventory that allows greater access to consumers via its supported digital platform.

This flexible approach gives new value to the global coffee consumer creating the ability to better connect with the communities that serve and work locally supplying there everyday cup of coffee.

Blendly marketplace allows greater access and more transparency to the global coffee consumer that understands transparency builds value. Allowing access to unique branded and transparent products with a supply chain that’s about freshness and value.

Blendly developed “Community Builder” allowing baristas to connect with customers online. This allows a local barista to take charge of local distribution to customers. Blendly baristas can develop opportunities supplying customers in their own homes, while building value and income at the same time.

Blendly “Blend Repository” allows the global coffee consumer access to the tasting notes and taste matches allowing you to quickly match a coffee to the individuals pallet, according to taste or price The repository is available to channel partners allowing different opportunities to be created based around the Blendly barista plans and Community Builder.

Blendly subscription services allow coffee professionals to retain their customers over time and engage then with new services and products. The marketplace also gives customer insight into the rituals and buying habits of their everyday coffee drinkers.

Blendly currently supplies across the UK to a range of commercial and home customers.

Blendly E-Procurement services allow commercial coffee users to access a service that is delivered as part of an integrated digital solution that would extend the choices to customers as we deliver a new type of economic value. 

With brands becoming less sticky with the new type of global coffee consumers. A consumer that looks for greater transparency Blendly E-Procurement services allow a decentralized approach to current commodity purchasing, production manufacturing, and distribution. This allows them to be commissioned independently from the current mass production models built around larger batch sizes. In contrast to a volumised production based around smaller batches that can be supplied directly to end-users without the need for additional user storage and redistribution costs.

With Approximately 70 million cups of coffee are consumed in the UK each day, according to the UK Tea Council, And Europe coffee market accounting for around 30% of global consumption. The market for hot beverages can be considered extremely robust

Blendly e-procurement services allow greater control of cost and taste of your fresh coffee allowing national distribution and on-demand products that can be optimized to give greater value and greater freshness to your fresh coffee.

Blendly e-procurement services allow predictive ordering and local management and support in the creation of your fresh coffee.

The Blendly Barista Roasting Gift Card infrastructure was developed to accompany a suite of digital tools that allow coffee to be supplied, managed and allocated fresher. This contributes to a better coffee distribution across the whole platform.

The Blendly Barista Roasting Gift Cards allow our customers that have created their own coffee blend to add value to customers. The gift card market is growing at a Compound annual growth rate of 15.7% from 2017 to 2023.  I developed the cards and the digital infrastructure to allow our customers to take advantage of the increase in the need for cashless transactions, surge in application areas among end-users, the high adoption rate of smartphones, and growth associated with e-commerce and m-commerce as well as the growth of Home Delivery Market 

The Blendly Barista Roasting Gift Card comes with a suite of tools give greater customer insight integration and management into many that fresh coffee can take advantage of allowing your blend to be distributed fresh and on-demand to homes, offices and other marketplaces.

I look forward to catching up in the new year.

Ernest F Schumacher once said that ❝An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory❞. The idea of doing something and practicing what we do is a great way of learning something and this for most of us a simple truth. Blendly Financial Products are designed to help you better manage your relationship with your customers and help redefine your current supplier base.

Perhaps it is for that reason we all do and we must all do and keep practicing the art of doing. the art of getting things done and the art of pressing forward with our plans 

Blendly financial products enable you to practice the art of doing to better manage the day to day running of your operation, whether it’s distribution, assets purchase, wholesale operations or expanding locally and globally.

Some of the perks of Blendly Financial Products are:

• Financing to help you transition from your supplier transferring existing balances.
• Extended credit around busy period e.g. holiday season.
• Lock-in rates for your coffee so you can plan any price fluctuations in your business.
• Asset financing to upgrade your equipment or other efficient methods of managing growth.

If you are looking at investing in new equipment or getting funding to keep your cash flowing or if you are developing your 2020 business plans, we hope to be with you on the journey.

“Every day, In Every Way, I’m Getting Better and Better”. Around a century ago, a Frenchman named Emile Coue coined that phrase that could change your life. 

Our message is not life-changing. But it goes out to all the baristas and coffee shop that every day provide the support to customers and in doing so act as one of the many “little bits” that help people get to where they need to go. Providing regular unrelentless service to everyday customers that rely on that cup of coffee or place to catch up – and in doing so making things better. Creating and building new sustainable communities – and in doing so are every day in every way  supporting and building the communities that we all share.

While most of us celebrate the holidays – we thank all our baristas and coffee shops for your patience and service over Christmas and working over the holidays to make this time of year special for all the people around.

We look forward to supporting you further in 2020.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mark Wilson, MBA
Head of Commercial Coffee Marketplace