Starbucks boosts coffee buying in Peru
January 28th, 2010 | by admin |If Starbucks has slowed coffee buying in Costa Rica and Guatemala, as Reuters reported, then maybe it’s helping make up for it with Peruvian coffee beans.
The Peruvian Coffee Chamber said that Starbucks has boosted buying there, because the quality of the coffee has improved.
Starbucks did not confirm, but spokeswoman May Kulthol said that 78 percent of its coffee came from Latin America in 2008. The company bought about 383 million pounds of coffee that year, according to its global responsibility report, at an average $1.49 a pound.
