Baysider Blogs
Click here to submit your own Blog post Latest Blog Entries![An overview to experiential marketing and its development](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/2063/20637/v2_file_690047522.jpg)
Tue, Nov 5th 2013, 15:53
Experiential Marketing, Engagement Marketing
![Fair Trade Coffee](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/321/321/v2_file_364932375.jpg)
Fri, May 15th 2009, 12:17
The Coffee Industry is dominated by a few large players and a myriad of middle-men. Farmers who actually grow the coffee see very little of the money you eventually pay for a cup: hence Fair Trade Coffee.
![Coffee Shop Culture](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/319/319/v2_file_776737235.jpg)
Mon, May 11th 2009, 11:51
Coffee was initially only used as a beverage to increase stamina and concentration during religious and meditation ceremonies in Arabia. But it was not long before the world’s first coffee shop opened in Constantinople in 1457.
![Ethiopian Coffee: Ethiopia the home of coffee](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/316/316/v2_file_861649901.jpg)
Mon, May 4th 2009, 12:23
Ethiopia is the home of coffee … it is in the mountains of Ethiopia’s Kaffa province where Arabica coffee trees grow wild in lush highland forests. Today, Ethiopia is still the major producer of coffee in Africa.
![Coffee Storage](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/312/312/v2_file_904185408.jpg)
Fri, Apr 24th 2009, 17:15
Coffee is best enjoyed when it is freshly roasted. Coffee is a perishable product and there are some basic rules for buying and storing of coffee if you want to enjoy it at its peak flavour.
![Coffee : Favourite drink Worldwide](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/310/310/v2_file_678857068.jpg)
Tue, Apr 21st 2009, 13:01
The Coffee trade is a thriving global market, second only to oil in global trade activity. Coffee is grown in 80 countries around the world … and a cup of coffee is a popular drink just about anywhere.
![Lloyd’s Coffeehouse: Birthplace of the Insurance Industry as we know it](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/322/322/v2_file_481216444.jpg)
Wed, May 20th 2009, 12:37
In the late 1600s, Edward Lloyd’s coffeehouse on the banks of the Thames River in London was a popular meeting place for people in the shipping industry, traders, sailors and ship-owners.
![Coffee Shop Culture Amsterdam Style](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/320/320/v2_file_313751889.jpg)
Wed, May 13th 2009, 12:04
The Netherlands has a long association with coffee; in the 1600s they had established the first coffee plantations in Java. These days, however, Dutch coffee shop culture has come to mean something else entirely.
![Coffee Roasting](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/317/317/v2_file_976437639.jpg)
Tue, May 5th 2009, 17:25
Roasting transforms a green coffee bean chemically to produce the distinct taste in brewed coffee ... It is the art of the coffee roaster to control the process to produce a desired taste.
![Alfred Peet: Grandfather of Coffee Culture as we know it](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/315/315/v2_file_628120944.gif)
Wed, Apr 29th 2009, 12:04
It was a Dutchman who first taught Americans how to appreciate quality coffee. Alfred Peet led the revolution in coffee drinking - he first introduced the founders of the world’s largest coffee retailer, Starbucks, to the joy of speciality coffee.
![Coffee: Robusta vs. Arabica](https://img.baysider.com/w-100/blog/311/311/v2_file_598997950.jpg)
Thu, Apr 23rd 2009, 12:36
Coffee beans come in two main species, Robusta and Arabica … and the true test of a coffee is whether it is made from Robusta beans or Arabica beans.