What Goes Into a Coffee’s Price?

As we move through a year of volatile, ultra-high C market prices shaking up global markets, we’ve seen occasions where roaster partners find coffees at lower prices than ours. We…

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What Forward Booking Looks Like for Us in 2022

As a shockingly volatile C market, local labor shortages, climate change, and high costs of business from the farm level up combine to roil global coffee markets, forward booking has…

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Ukraine War Increases C Market Volatility, Worsens Supply Chain Crisis

Red Fox Coffee Merchants Q2 2022 Origin & Shipping Update Prefer to listen rather than read? Click here or find us on your favorite podcasting app. As core issues from the last…

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Red Fox Logistics: Jajaira Guerrero is Key

As a green coffee company, Red Fox has always had a particular focus on logistics as a critical factor in coffee quality and utility—coffee delivered on time after as little…

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On Naturals & a Sense of Place

From Aleco Chigounis, Co-Founder & CEO Naturally processed coffees, or sundried process as they’re known in Ethiopia, are enigmatic fodder for conversation in the coffee industry. Every coffee professional has…

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C Market Volatility, Complex Logistics & Ethiopia Civil Unrest Spill Over Into Q1 2022

Red Fox Coffee Merchants Origin & Shipment Update: Q1 2022 Prefer to listen rather than read? Click here or find us on your favorite podcasting app. As we sail into…

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How Logistics Slowdowns are Affecting Roasters, in their Own Words

We’ve talked a lot about how the now-notorious global logistics slowdowns and cost increases are affecting us and our partners throughout producing countries and the green coffee supply side, but…

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Red Fox Coffee Merchants Origin & Shipping Update: Q4 2021

Prefer to listen rather than read? Click here or find us on your favorite podcasting app. Hello friends, coming to you with our final quarterly origin and shipment update of…

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Higher Base Rates, Flatter Pay Structures: How Pangoa & Ocumal Are Doing Things Different

Tailoring Payment Structures to the Needs of a Group As we’ve discussed in pretty much every one of our previous pieces about paying for coffee, different groups negotiate their pricing…

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Colombia & Peru Update, August 2021

As promised, we’re coming to you today with another origin and shipment update with specific focus on the current and anticipated situation in Colombia and Peru, typically our two largest…

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