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Press information, resources and media requests
From crop to cup, each coffee is full of stories
By supporting journalists to tell engaging coffee stories, we help build a viable and vibrant future for the industry
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Researching & scoping
We can help you explore an idea, identify a topical angle, or better understand a trend.
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Interviews
Request an interview with Tim Ridley, founder of United Baristas. With over a decade of coffee industry experience, he's done dozens of pieces with BBC Radio, BBC World Service and The Times, plus a range of global news media outlets.
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Background research
Our Articles can help with background information and further reading. We write on a range of topics, typically drawing from recent academic research and industry data.
Plus, we also plan to publish timely Explainers on topical subjects. This is in small text as we're only just starting and remain unsure of both the demand and our time commitment.
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Looking for the perfect person to profile? Need an expert? Trying to find a case study?
The United Baristas community comprises thousands of baristas and businesses. We'll happily make an introduction.
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We can provide quotes to provide insight and add a personal perspective
The coffee scene in the UK is now better than Australia and New Zealand, who were traditionally the trailblazers
in The Evening Standard
Coffee has a ‘high intensity’ carbon footprint, and over 50% of the total CO2 emissions from crop to cup occur from activity inside the coffee shop.
in Boughton's Coffee House
Ridley, one of the doyens of London’s coffee scene, says the place is “legendary”.
in The Times
The first thing you need to understand is that caffeine doesn’t directly stimulate you. Rather it prevents a molecule called adenosine from slowing down your mind and body by blocking the adenosine receptor in your brain.
on BBC Radio
Coffee shops actually exploded after the financial downturn. All of a sudden, landlords were forced to consider propositions they wouldn’t have done before because of a lack of demand. At the same time, a lot of companies downsized their office space and lost meeting rooms so it became more acceptable to leave the office during the day for a meeting in a coffee shop.
in The Grocer
London coffee expert Tim Ridley tells City AM that most takeaway places have shut down thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic ... but ...“Home brewing equipment is also doing well,” he tells us, as previously time-poor commuters get used to the perhaps slightly more relaxed rhythms of home working.
in City AM
About United Baristas
A Digital Platform
Connecting the coffee community
Our Services connect the coffee community to perform tasks such as recruitment, equipment procurement and maintenance.
Our extensive industry contacts and experience give us deep insight into issues, trends and the future of the industry.
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Promoting a viable & vibrant future
We also publish articles on topics including: the industry's viability, growth and prospects; sustainability challenges; and working life in coffee.
We have specialisms on coffee's carbon footprint, coffee shop viability, recruitment and coffee pricing.
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A growing suite of services
United Baristas started as a side project in 2015 with Marketplace, to help keep used coffee equipment in use for its full working life to help reduce the industry's enviornmental impacts.
We've grown quickly, nearly doubling in size each year since. Today our services incorporate both new and used equipment, events, finance, a jobs board and an industry directory.
Our ValuesSustainability
It takes many people to make a single cup
Specialty coffee has the power to provide meaningful livlihoods for people across the coffee supply chain, as well as supporting sustainable agriculture and reducing environmental impacts.
We've been working to cut coffee's carbon footprint and to help industry align their practices with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. There's still much to do, but real progress has been made.
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Ideas into action
Let’s meet for coffee at Ensemble
United Baristas is transforming a coffee shop in King's Cross, London. It'll host our events and be a testbed for ideas.
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Tasty, tasty coffee
Introducing the Coffee Tasting Framework
United Baristas wants to kickstart a community-wide conversation on how we can better communicate coffee's distinctive flavours. Better tasting notes are fundamental for the industry’s viable future. More accurate communication can empower consumers and support specialty coffee’s price premium.
Get set for 2025
New year, updated United Baristas
We’ve just launched the latest version of United Baristas Services, it's now easier to use and even more connected.
The next chapter of United Baristas
Updates to United Baristas Articles
Recent updates to Articles is the first stage of a new United Baristas design.