Coffee – E-Procurement Specialist – Johnathan Gray 

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 “Predictive Ordering” is developed to increase freshness across the Blendly global supply chain to be more reactive and on-demand to its customers – creating a fresher supply chain that removes intermediaries allowing better and quicker product development for greater value to the global coffee consumer.

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 Fresh Coffee E-Procurement Services

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.

Blendly Retail Services – Barista Roasting Gift Cards for Growth

Blendly allows your blend to grow into new channels and to be distributed in both traditional and virtual channels. These channels include retail services. This enables you to tap into the growth of an online distribution giving you complete control of your blend using the Blendly infrastructure.

Blendly introduced Barista Roasting Gift Cards last year. These cards are an integrated payment solution developed to facilitate the transaction at stores or businesses as an alternative for money. These cards establish a medium that supports smooth and hassle-free purchasing procedure during variety of events, such as dining, entertainment, retail purchases, convenience shopping, and others making it easier to be used for retail services.

Developed to allow coffee to Distributed fresh to end-user keeping the product fresh and unique

Our production infrastructure enables greater customer insight, integration and management into many channels allowing your blend to be distributed fresh and on-demand to homes, offices and other marketplaces.

According to this market research, The global gift cards market size was valued at $585,311 million in 2016 and is projected to reach $1,591,461 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 15.7% from 2017 to 2023.
The major factors that drive the gift card industry are technological innovation in product offerings, rise in adoption for retail industry, increase in application areas among end-users, and high adoption rate of smartphones.

Gift cards are an integrated payment solution developed to facilitate the transaction at stores or businesses as an alternative for money. These cards establish a medium that supports smooth and hassle-free purchasing procedure during variety of events, such as dining, entertainment, retail purchases, convenience shopping, and others.

The gift cards industry is influenced by the rise in demand for technologically advanced products, an increase in need for cashless transactions, surge in application areas among end-users, high adoption rate of smartphones, and growth associated with e-commerce and m-commerce industry. This one factor is being considered as one of the most influential gift cards market trends.

Predictive Ordering

Predictive Ordering services work with you in managing your inventory keeping your coffee fresh and on-demand. This gives you greater control over your inventory allowing your stock to be managed over many sites via a central reporting system.

Predictive ordering provides an additional back up to mission-critical operation rationalization stock as well as automation of sales in other sales channels.

Coffee Distribution – For Global Coffee Consumer

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.

Customer Analytics

Customer analytics develop a great number of ways to manage and communicate with the growing number of coffee consumers.

This provides more in-depth analysis into their habits and rituals improving planning, distribution, production and stock management.

This also provides valuable insight into the global coffee consumer. Blendly Customer Analytics will help you better differentiate your coffee offering giving insight on how best grow to new opportunities in new markets.

Underdog dundee – The Rise of Plant Based Food & Flexitarian Coffee Drinkers

Underdog from Dundee trusted Blendly to create a coffee blend to accompany their 100% plant-based menu. Underdog offers unique takes on well-known favourites. Grant Avery developed an individual and innovative menus to show just how delectable 100% plant-based cooking can be to all tastes and customers groups.

According to research, with great coffee playing an important part of the vegetarians’ consideration with almost half of the coffee drinkers now regularly drink plant-based options out of home, with the figure set to continue rising, according to new research commissioned by plant-based retailer Alpro For Professionals.

Alpro’s research found that 48% of coffee drinkers are now regularly choosing plant-based options on the go, with taste, health, and environment among the biggest motivations for doing so. Meanwhile, only one in five of all coffee drinkers reports that they have yet to try a plant-based alternative out of the home.

Blendly work to create individual tastes and profiles for a growing of coffee shops and restaurants and hotels groups providing them with the ability to create and develop their own coffee product unique to the person and pallet.

This approach allowed Underdog to create a Coffee that highlights the innovation and creativity of the Underdog 100% plant-based menu according to Consumer Insights over half of the vegans are under 35 years old. They tend to be engaged with food and are more likely to cook from scratch than other groups.

They are also technologically savvy and the online channel is critical to them for gathering information about their lifestyle choices, seeking recipe ideas, and sharing ideas and information with other people (both vegans and non-vegan).

Many more people are interested in taking on board some elements of a plant-based diet even if they are not willing to commit full-time. These people may choose not to eat meat for one or more meals a week and have become known as flexitarians.

There are key demographic differences in that flexitarians tend to be older and are more likely to be in the family and post-family brackets, compared with vegans who tend to be pre-family. While vegans may command more media attention, the flexitarian group is arguably far more important to understand as they represent a much bigger target market segment

Blendly.co.uk allows coffee to drinkers access to a Unique repository that allows the global coffee consumer to access to the tasting notes and taste matches allowing them to quickly match a coffee to the individual’s pallet and have that coffee sent to the home or office.

The Repository is available to customers that use blendly.co.uk  allowing customers to have access coffee 24hrs a day

Ref:-

  • https://www.theskinny.co.uk/whats-on/dundee/restaurants/underdog-dundee
  • https://projectblue.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/Consumer%20and%20Retail%20Insight%20Images/PDF%20articles/ConsumerInsights%20WEB_1653_180725.pdf
  • https://qsrmedia.co.uk/research/news/almost-half-coffee-drinkers-consume-plant-based-coffee-out-home-study

A Licence That Opens up a World of Growth – Blendly Financial Products 

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.

Merry Christmas from Blendly

“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