The coffee world has been turned upside down since the Covid pandemic. Delayed shipments, high coffee prices, challenges for producers, traders and roasters. Add to that frost and drought in Brazil — nothing is the way it was just recently. This podcast is meant to be a compass for everyone in the coffee industry to navigate through the coming months.
In this episode: Robert Heuveldop, Managing Partner of List & Beisler
In this special edition of our Kaffeemacher podcast, I'm talking with people who are analyzing the current situation, clarifying questions, and raising important new ones. Everyone working with coffee in any capacity is already feeling the changes, or will be in just a few weeks at most.
Every Sunday evening we release a new episode of Coffea Economica. In this episode, I'm talking with Robert Heuveldop from List & Beisler.
Robert Heuveldop, List & Beisler
In conversation with Philipp Schallberger, the focus is on the basic principles of coffee trading. Robert Heuveldop gives a crash course on how coffee trading works.
- "Roasters must not under any circumstances use the salami tactic of quality downgrading right now. That would be the biggest mistake."
- "With specialty coffees for the large players, margins are around 1-2%. With conventional coffee, it's nearly zero. With specialty coffees for smaller roasters, it's just under 10%."
- On direct trade: "It also doesn't make sense for every roaster to take over all the functions that we perform. That would be incredible inefficiency. And high costs always come at the expense of the coffee farmer."
Next episode: January 16, 2022 with Andreas Felsen, Quijote Coffee
