BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee

BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee ()

  „So world coffee prices halved and have remained volatile ever since. Was this break-up of the coffee-makers' cartel good news for coffee drinkers? Not immediately: It took four years for the supermarkets to slash the price of coffee, and then only by 20%. And when prices bounced back in 1994, up 50%, the retail price rose immediately and stayed high despite another fall in world prices in 1995.“

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