Suntory Beverage and Food’s first female CEO seeks US $5 billion in drinks acquisitions.The project will work with 1,300 Peruvian women in coffee farming communities to develop leadership, communications, and decision-making skills. TechnoServe and Starbucks Foundation launch Mujeres CAFÉ initiative in Peru.Kassaye Tolessa Sherge, Director of Food Science and Nutrition Research and Directorate of the Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research, will host The Quest to Understand Ethiopian Coffee Qualities lecture on 22 April. Adugna Debela Bote, Director General of the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority will present the Ethiopian Coffees: New Market Systems Lead to New Access Opportunities lecture on 21 April. Ethiopian coffee authorities to host two lectures on market access and genetic diversity at 2023 Specialty Expo in Portland, Oregon.This will be 200 Degrees’ 19th location in the UK, and will include an in-house barista school open to both professionals and enthusiasts. UK roaster 200 Degrees to open new coffee shop and barista school in Chester.World Coffee in Good Spirits finalist Vladyslav Demonenko predicts that the fourth wave of coffee will be more geared towards better availability of high-quality convenient products, such as RTD drinks and capsules. Fourth wave of coffee will focus on “the industrialisation of coffee” and “less about craft”.The brand, which is owned by acclaimed US food writer Meredith Ford, will now serve coffee from Land of a Thousand Hills – a specialty roaster in Atlanta, Georgia. US gelato chain Cremalosa launches new coffee programme.Dr Sarada Krishnan, who first joined the IWCA in June 2021, will continue as an advisor and will also assist in the appointment of a new Executive Director in the coming weeks. International Women’s Coffee Alliance’s current Executive Director to leave organisation in May 2023.Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the previous week.

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