Category: Low Carbon Coffee Roasting

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

The Boathouse is the home of great beauty and food. Sitting on the historic quayside of Glencaple, overlooking the River Nith with a cosy snug in which to relax and a restaurant with stunning views to Criffel.

It’s also the home of great coffee, created and served by Denyse Boyle, a barista that cares about customers, cares about service and cares about coffee. Denyse developed The Boathouse Blend with the help of Blendly, a commercial coffee roaster that allows baristas that understand coffee to take charge of the flavours and taste that make up their customers coffee allowing it be developed unique to the customer and the environment.

In developing The Boathouse Blend, Denyse can also offer customers a range of services that allow her to manage their coffee suppliers from their homes and local offices via her Community Builder account.

Community Builder was developed for baristas that want to put more into the local community allowing great barista skills to build sustainability in the local communities around coffee and the global coffee market.

Blendly believes in sustainable communities not only in the areas of the world where the coffee is grown,  processed, shipped and stored but in all the communities that serve coffee to the new global coffee consumer 

Blendly understands that skilled baristas understand the flavours and tastes in the global commodities that create the everyday cup of coffee in our local community. And that these skills are pivotal in the new global coffee economy and understand that their work and skill can create long-lasting community connection.

Denyse’s blend can be sold directly to her customers with the new Barista Roasting Gift cards this Christmas. This card was developed to support baristas like Denyse and The Boathouse so that every day they can build long term connections. Connections that create sustainable community at their center with great baristas like Denyse and The Boathouse.

 

The modern barista understands that we all connected to taste and experiences, no more so then the team at the Blue Rooms in Dundee who developed an Espresso Martini with the help of Blendly.

The team at the Blue Rooms developed a blend called Blue Rooms Espresso Extra to underpin their value of the connections they make every day, the connections the modern barista makes every day, the skill and knowledge that is required in understanding the importance of keeping their skills and knowledge up to date. 

Blendly.co.uk developed the  barista card to work as part of the Community Builder service, this is available online to our Barista Account holders allowing them to use the new barista cards and to further develop their connections and the skills to the ongoing commitment of innovation and excellence. 

The Blue Rooms Espresso Extra coffee blend has even more connections and is now available with the barista cards. These barista cards connect the great taste of The Blue Rooms Espresso Extra with a new type of network of baristas that value the time and effort that goes into every blend they make. The cards have a published limit that our barista distributors can distribute to their network, allowing the network to grow around the values, skills and knowledge of the modern-day barista. 

Blendly understands and supports the ongoing journey and search for knowledge which comes with hard work and a curious interest in the world, as well as the relationships of the many connections that are made every day and to facilitate these connections which takes a special type of person.