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  • % Arabica announces Singapore launch

    % Arabica announces Singapore launch

    Kyoto-headquartered coffee chain % Arabica Coffee is to open its first store in Singapore.

    The company has revealed the location on Instagram: 56 Arab Street. With a fit-out yet to be completed, the store may not open until the end of the year.

    The company has also confirmed it is currently fitting out its first store in Indonesia, with others destined for Malaysia and India.

    With its slogan “See the world through coffee”, % Arabica Coffee has built a strong following via social media. In Asia it has three stores in Japan, three in Hong Kong, one in the Philippines and two in China. It is also in Germany and several Middle East markets, with plans for France, Morocco and Canada.

    % Arabica Coffee was founded in 2014 by Japan-born Kenneth Shoji who grew a love for the beverage while studying in California.

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  • Arabica Coffee Opens in the Philippines

    Arabica Coffee Opens in the Philippines

    After nearly a year of planning, Kyoto’s % Arabica Coffee has opened its first store for the Philippines.

    It is in Manila’s Bonifacio Global City and is the result of the efforts of a mother-and-daughter team that has been travelling around the world looking for the best coffee spots. Allue Hortazela says she and her mother could not forget the taste of % Arabica, prompting her to return to the Kyoto main branch of % Arabica to contact the owner with the hope of launching a branch in the Philippines.

    Founded in 2014 by Kenneth Shoji, % Arabica uses 100 per cent Arabica coffee beans sourced internationally from countries such as Brazil, Guatemala and Japan.

    To support the opening of the Manila branch, % Arabica global and Kyoto head barista Junichi Yamaguchi flew from Japan to oversee the crafting of coffee for every customer.

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  • American franchise coffee house interested in kerinci coffee

    American franchise coffee house interested in kerinci coffee

    An American franchise coffee house is interested in arabica kayu aro coffee from Kerinci district, Jambi province, the Head of Processing and Marketing of Crops at Jambi’s Plantation Office, Arsyad Nur, said on Wednesday.

    “This coffee won the national coffee contest,” he added.

    Currently, the coffee house, which has franchises around the world, is exploring the possibility to cooperate with arabica coffee farmers in Kerinci.

    In Jambi, Nur noted, arabica kerinci only grows in Kayu Aro, which is a plateau situated at a height of 1,400-1,700 meters above sea level.

    “One coffee rod can produce eight kilograms of coffee beans at the most. Within two weeks, the local farmers can produce 20 tons of arabica kerinci coffee beans,” he informed.

    According to him, the arabica kerinci plantations are spread over 1,500 hectares.

    The local administration is working to register arabica kerinci with the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in order to obtain legal protection of Geographical Indications (GI).

    “Arabica Kerinci has specific characteristics that deserve to get GI categorisation,” Nur pointed out.

    Besides arabica kerinci, he added, the district has robusta merangin and liberika tungkal coffee. “Liberika Tungkal grows at an elevation of 0-100 meter above sea level,” he explained.

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