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As a company with strong community


values, Liquidline jumped at the chance to collaborate with Change Please to assist them in their mission to eliminate homelessness in the UK. Change Please has created a new blend


of coffee beans especially for Liquidline. The Paloma blend is a dark-medium roast that’s full-bodied and well balanced with caramel sweetness and a rich cocoa aftertaste. To complement the new coffee offering,


“Life-changing” coffee


The supplier and installer of commercial coffee machines, Liquildine, has partnered with Change Please, a social enterprise that helps lift people out of homelessness. It may be bold to say that a cup of coffee


changed your life, but when you choose Change Please coffee for your business, it may genuinely be helping to transform the lives of people experiencing homelessness around the UK. Change Please helps by retraining them as baristas, providing Living Wage


employment and offering additional support with housing, finances and mental health. Launched in 2015 with a coffee cart in


London’s Covent Garden, Change Please has gone from strength to strength, now operating several outlets in central London, alongside collaborations with big names including Virgin Atlantic and David Lloyd. It also has its own brand of coffee beans, which Liquidline will be promoting to its existing network of commercial coffee machine customers.


Liquidline is also offering a range of specially selected commercial coffee machines that are available in Change Please branding to help companies promote the values of their new life-changing coffee and get buy-in from staff and customers. John Collins, commercial director at


Liquidline, commented: “The past 12 months have been especially challenging for Change Please, which relied on the profits from its coffee outlets to provide employment and secure housing for people affected by homelessness. “By partnering with Liquidline we hope


to introduce fantastic coffee to a much wider audience, providing an additional revenue stream and supporting them in their mission to end homelessness.”


Lavazza to open first roasting and packing plant in the US


Lavazza North America, part of global Italian coffee company Lavazza Group, has begun construction of the first roasting and packing plant in the United States. The new plant is slated to open in October 2021 and will serve the US market. The plant is an expansion of the Lavazza


Professional facility in West Chester, Pennsylvania, which will integrate existing and new capabilities for Lavazza to produce roasted and ground coffee in the United States, adding 1,000 square metres to the 18,000 square metre facility. Strategically the new plant will create the possibility to increase the business, to be more reactive in the US market, and increase customer satisfaction. "North America continues to be a


strategic growth market for Lavazza Group and opening this facility in the United States will sharpen our competitive edge," said Davide Riboni, president and chief executive BU Americas for Lavazza. "We will more efficiently service our current


customers and offer incentives to attract new ones." Until now, all Lavazza roasted and ground


coffee for the US market was sourced from Italy, positioning the new plant to reduce Lavazza's carbon footprint through reduced shipping, in line with the Group's "Roadmap to zero" that aims to completely neutralise the group's carbon footprint by the end of 2030. The West Chester facility is a LEED Gold site, is zero landfill, and the first site in the Lavazza Group to achieve ISO 45001 certification. In the expansion, Lavazza will maintain the same environmental standards and history at the site. Products from West Chester will fulfill all


the quality standards of Lavazza brand, aimed at providing to consumers a product which matches the brand's Italian taste. "This is a very important step for the


Lavazza Group and for its future development in the United States, a country that has always been of fundamental importance to us," said Eleuterio Quagliarini, group chief operations


officer. "In addition, the investment is made within a production facility that we acquired few years ago, which immediately proved to be the ideal context for developing this new Lavazza reality in the United States, principally thanks to the passion and expertise of the people who work there." Lavazza Group currently has nine


production plants in six countries (three in Italy, one in France, USA, UK, Canada, India). .


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