It is a thick, rich liquid that lubricates the cogs of our economies as it travels around the globe. One of the most popular commodities is it. There are also worries that we might run out of resources one day due to the seemingly unstoppable demand.
No, I'm not referring about oil, but rather coffee. Every day, more than two billion "cups of joe" are consumed, and for many people, life at work would be impossible without it. Coffee may soon overtake tea as the preferred beverage of the world as historically tea-drinking nations like China succumb to its allures.
Coffee was originally a rare treat utilised in religious ceremonies. But once it started expanding globally, it became unstoppable force.
Every individual's relationship to coffee is unique. For some coffee aficionados, coffee is a form of religion. Coffee serves as a morning pull for some people, a day-starter for others, and medicine for others who simply cannot function without a mug in their hand.
WomenEntreprenerIndia outlines the women in the industry on this International Coffee Day, which is celebrated on October 1 each year to promote and honour coffee as a beverage. For these ladies, coffee is more than simply a beverage to guzzle down while dusted with sugar. It's more about fostering love, a sense of community, social justice, and safe spaces.
Tepaswini Purnesh- Classic Coffees
Harley Coffee LLP, a business that specialises in the cultivation and manufacture of carefully crafted coffees, is a provider of Classic Coffee. The business is influenced by the history of the Classic Group, a multi-sector conglomerate run by 4th and 5th generation coffee planters. The Classic Group, a 150-year-old coffee enterprise, is owned by the Chikmagalur-born family of coffee planters that includes Tapaswini. She is a partner and the head of marketing and operations at Classic Synergy, a more recent division of the business that sells branded coffees to the younger generation and strives to make coffee interesting through education.
Growing up with a passion for food and coffee, it didn't take long for this young mechanical engineer to enrol at Le Cordon Bleu, one of the most renowned culinary and hospitality schools in the world.
This fifth generation coffee scion uses her skill in brewing methods, culinary knowledge, and understanding of flavour patterns to create coffee that is pleasing to the Indian palate. To promote pure coffee cultivated in India's rich coffee-growing regions, Tapaswini travels the globe in quest of innovative brewing and marketing methods.
sadhawi aswani & mrinal sharma-baba beans
Baba's Beans is the magnificent result of the founder's fervent love of coffee. Mrinal Sharma and Sadhavi Ashwani, former classmates, created Baba's Beans in 2013. They purchase top-quality coffee beans from local estates, roast them, and then mix their own concoctions to sell. Baba's Beans is a tribute to the legendary Baba Budan, a 16th-century Sufi saint who brought back seven coffee beans neatly concealed in a stick and planted them in his backyard (current-day Chikmagalur), where the land lends its soul to make the cup richer! While Mrinal, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer, was growing weary of his monotonous work as an audit analyst with KPMG, Sadhavi was enrolled in Delhi University's master's programme in philosophy.
Baba's Beans came into being as a result of the two young, college-age friends' shared desire to launch their own business and their shared addiction to coffee.
Poornima Katyal-Third Roast
The main objective of Third Roast from the beginning has been to offer delicious food and beverages that are sustainably produced for a larger population of people. She founded the company and also helps companies create their branding and communications strategy.
Poornima came to the realisation that there seems to be an emotional connection between what we eat at some time in the transition from trying-to-be to established adult, somewhere between the meals that she skipped and dishes she learned herself to cook. It's a real roller coaster, from the food famo, irrational cravings, and guilt attacks to the extra roti that represents extra love and that piece of chocolate that makes endorphins soar.
She began experimenting in the kitchen to prepare foods that would nourish and calm this rocky emotional saga. wherein everyday pleasure would not constitute a self-destructive deed. more akin to self-kindness. After several years and numerous mixing bowls, she finally founded Third Roast, which sells sweet stuff which includes coffe too that are delicious in the gooiest way and don't contain any substances that are as harmful as the voice in our brains.
Zakietsono Jamir aka Atsi -farmer square café
Zakietsono Jamir alias Atsi is the founder and owner of Farmer Square Cafe in Medziphima, Dimapur district, rural Nagaland. Zakietsono offers freshly ground coffee to customers at Farmer Square Cafe alongside a small group of female employees (helpers and salesmen) in a clean, eco-friendly setting.
Furthermore, they provide a variety of mixes and other locally produced food items, such pickles, sauces, mushrooms, canned pineapples, etc.
In 2017, Zakietsono went to a nearby workplace and discovered how to make coffee from beans. She found the idea of how coffee gets from the farm to the cup and the numerous elements that improve coffee's flavour to be fascinating. A business idea began to form as she did additional study on specialty coffee.
Through her business, Zakiestono has not only given young women from the surrounding communities jobs and a reliable source of income, but she is also enticing them to adopt a farming lifestyle and invest in premium agricultural goods. She has also been credited with starting the "quality coffee culture" movement in and around Medziphima, earning the nickname "Coffee Lady of Nagaland."
Malavika Hegde- Café Coffee Day
Cafe Coffee Day was the epicentre where a few hours might transform into lifelong memories, whether it was spending time with friends on the weekends, going on a first date, or treating your family with your first paycheck. However, everyone in the nation was stunned to learn that V G Siddhartha, the creator of Cafe Coffee Day, the largest chain of coffee shops in India, had committed suicide in July 2019.
After Siddhartha's passing, many people believed that the Coffee Day business would not survive, and they were unsure of his successor. Due to the accumulated debt, most thought the business would never be able to recover. However, Malavika Hegde, V G Siddhartha's wife, dispelled all the rumours and made history by preventing CCD from vanishing despite being a single mother of two sons.
Malavika assumed leadership of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd. in December 2020. (CDEL). She started working nonstop the next day to help the business expand. She was committed to the company's future and confident that the Coffee Day tale was "worth preserving.
By March 31, 2019, CDEL owed Rs 7,000 crore in debt. However, as per a statement made by CDEL in August of last year in its annual report that as of March 31, 2021, it had a net debt of Rs. 1,731 crore.
Manvi Gupta- El Bueno
El Bueno aims to highlight the positive qualities of our coffee. The moniker "El Bueno," which is Spanish for "the good," was inspired by the creators' desire to highlight all of "the wonderful parts in the journey of our coffee beans," from their painstaking farming to their expert roasting to the delectable brew in your cup.
Manvi wants to show that coffee is more than just a typical caffeinated drink; it is a tool for fostering communication and collaboration. Her objective is to not only produce expertly roasted coffees but also to inform consumers about them. She gives our coffees bright and colourful names, provides you the choice to start with little 100-gram bags, and grinds coffee for home equipment in an effort to make entering the world of specialty coffee easier (channi grind). She worked hard to enhance our coffee experience and the coffee community, starting with a tiny business idea and eventually opening a roastery.
