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The Coffee Bean Launches “Ditch the Bitter Choose the Better” Digital Ad Campaign

 

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf launches a new digital ad campaign “Ditch the Bitter Choose the Better” after a consumer insight praised the brand’s coffee as better tasting.

Coffee consumers prefer the brand’s coffee because it tastes better compared with the competitor’s bitter coffee.  This insight has led to the digital campaign “Ditch the Bitter Choose the Better”.  The digital ads show the natural reaction to drinking a bitter latte that everyone has experienced. This campaign looks to underscore the problem and offer a better, not bitter option.

Jay Isais, Vice President, Coffee at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf articulated “We are extremely passionate about our espresso and want to celebrate one of our longest-standing beverages and traditions – the latte.  Our new ad campaign aims to show how The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf uses the finest Arabica coffees for our Espresso Roast Blend to craft a perfectly balanced silky, smooth latte with that distinct sweeter, lighter and friendlier coffee taste that our guests crave and enjoy.”

The Coffee bean & Tea Leaf prides itself with roasting the finest 100% Arabica coffee beans from five premier growing regions.  Each bean type in the brand’s signature Espresso Roast Blend is roasted individually to its peak flavor, then blended together to create the smooth, balanced flavor profile that produces a better flavor latte. Their philosophy and meticulous method of coffee bean roasting are to prevent the over-roasted and charred, burnt taste that is notorious with other coffee competitors.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is an American coffee shop chain founded in 1963 in Los Angeles. It was recently acquired by Jollibee Foods Corporation in 2019 and operates stores in the United States and 31 other countries.

 

 

Luckin Coffee Files For Bankruptcy

 

 

In less than a year after the company admitted to fabricating millions of dollars in sales, Luckin Coffee has now filed for bankruptcy in the US.

According to the statement released by company officials who have filed Chapter 15 bankruptcy, the move will help to financially restructure and strengthen its balance sheet.  This type of filing shelters the US assets of foreign companies undergoing restructuring proceedings in their home country.  Officials also stated that bankruptcy won’t materially impact Luckin’s day-to-day operations and its roughly 3,600 cafes will remain open.

Last April 2020 news broke out about its Chief Operating Officer Jian Lu and his direct reports had engaged in misconduct that include fabricating sales transactions beginning in 2019 amounting to about $310 million.

Following the misconduct, COO Lu and CEO Jenny Zhiya Qian were both fired in May 2020. Luckin stock was also delisted on the Nasdaq exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission slapped the company with a $180 million penalty to settle fraud charges.

Luckin went public in 2019.  It is now looking bleak for this company who was once hailed as the homegrown rival to Starbucks in China.

Costa Coffee to close more stores in China by early next year

 

British Coffee Chain Costa Coffee to close more stores in China by early next year.

In response to a plunge in consumer demand, the Coca-Cola-owned brand reduced its physical stores by 40 since August this year.  The store closures were 20 in Beijing, 2 in Hangzhou, 2 in Shanghai, 6 in Nanjing, and all 6 outlets in Qingdao, according to reports.

The pullback comes as a blow to the brand’s long-standing aspirations to tap into China’s Coffee market which took a major hit during the Covid-19 outbreak. Rising unemployment and other economic factors have hurt the spending power and discretionary consumption of Chinese consumers.

The company’s operations have also been affected by Covid-19 in the UK, its home market, with 1650 staff to be laid off.

Costa Coffee has had some major difficulties facing the competitive Chinese coffee market. Having just opened 500 of its 2500 store target networks in the last 14 years since its market entry in 2006. Despite the recent turn of events, the company asserts its commitment to the China market.

Coca Cola made a landmark acquisition of Costa Coffee, Europe’s largest coffee chain in 2018 for $4.8bn.