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.