Magazine: Black coffees with green messages

Noémi Varga
marketing director
Tchibo Budapest

According to Noémi Varga, Tchibo Budapest Kft.’s marketing director, coffee sales drifted from HoReCa units to home consumption, because of the Covid-induced limitations in the sector. Due to this the coffee market grew in both value and volume last year – reported Nielsen.

Luca Farsang, Jacobs Douwe Egberts Zrt.’s junior brand manager added that single-serve (capsule) and whole bean coffees were the engines of growth, which at the same time also continued to take the market in a more premium direction. Among sales channels discounters strengthened their positions.

Whole bean and capsule coffees keep going strong

Márton Vajda
premium spirits and coffee manager
Coca-Cola HBC
Magyarország

Márton Vajda, premium spirits and coffee manager of Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország told our magazine: Nielsen found that before the pandemic 91 percent of coffee drinkers had a coffee in their homes and 53 percent drank one at the workplace every day. The pandemic changed this and home consumption strengthened. Costa Coffee and GKI Digital have done a coffee consumption survey recently, which revealed that 28 percent of consumers spend HUF 3,000-5,000 on drinking coffee at home.

As regards the different product segments, Éva Békefi, category manager of Lavazza distributor Orbico Hungary Kft. informed: although whole bean coffee has the smallest market share at HUF 9 billion, value sales grew the most in this segment, by 20 percent in the 12-month period ending in December 2020. Single-serve capsule coffee sales were worth HUF 16.7 billion. Sales dropped from the +38 percent in 2019 to +29 percent in 2020, but this segment produced the biggest expansion.

A feeling of comfort in capsule format

Noémi Varga talked to Trade magazin about the success of their Tchibo Cafissimo capsule system. The company regularly puts new flavours and special regional selections on the market. At the moment Tchibo Budapest Kft. is focusing on its slow roasted 100% arabica Tchibo Barista product range. For several years now Tchibo has played a pioneering role in environmental protection and sustainability: the company’s Cafissimo capsules are Rainforest Alliance certified, while Barista products have the fair trade certification. Tchibo’s portfolio also includes organic coffees in whole bean, ground and capsule variants.

Paying attention to sustainability too

Luca Farsang
junior brand manager
Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Luca Farsang reported that Douwe Egberts Omnia 3in1 specialty products debuted in July: these are 100-perccent arabica capsule coffees, and some of them are regional selections; what is more, all of the products are Rainforest Alliance™-certified. In the premium segment the company launched new L’Or products – Bio Organic capsule coffee and limited edition Arabica Catuai; the latter is made from rare yellow coffee cherries and has the Rainforest Alliance™ certification. The junior brand manager told that they would like to source 100 percent of their coffees from certified, responsible sources by 2025, and they also want to cut packaging material use and switch to recyclable or compostable packaging.

Expertise in coffee consumption

Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország put its Costa Coffee products on the Hungarian market in June 2020. At the beginning there were 4 types of ground and whole bean coffees available, in 10 different formats, e.g. light and dark roast Signature coffee blends made of a special combination of arabica and robusta coffee beans, 100-percent arabica Bright Blend, 100-percent arabica Columbia Single Origin. Then came Costa Coffee Nespresso®- and Dolce Gusto®-compatible capsules in the autumn. Márton Vajda revealed that several new product launches can be expected in the future. In the period when Costa Coffee was launched and in the following year strong PR support and social media presence made sure that the brand’s message gets through to consumers.

“Green” ambitions are valued by an ever larger group of customers

Step by step towards being plastic-free

Oszkár Laknerfi
sales director
Mokate International
Hungary

Despite the Covid-19 situation Mokate International Hungary Kft.’s sales grew by double-digit numbers in 2020. Sales director Oszkár Laknerfi spoke to Trade magazin about the big step the company took towards the introduction of plastic-free packaging in 2021. Most of their innovation work is also done in the spirit of this green strategy. This year Mokate rolled out the paper box version of its classic 3in1 and 2in1 coffees, which were followed by Latte and Cappucino products. More products are expected to follow suit in the near future. The company’s Loyd tea made big progress in 2020, putting sophisticated new flavours on the market.

Compostable capsules

MOCCABIT Kft. is the exclusive distributor of Dallmayr products in retail. The company produced considerable sales growth in 2020. Managing director Péter Margittai revealed that after the expansion of capsule and whole bean products in recent years, in 2020 coffee pads made a return. The company’s Gran Verde range has organic and fair trade certifications. Their capsule coffees are made of compostable materials. One of MOCCABIT’s success products, Crema d’Oro ‘selection of the year’ is a specialty blend that has been taking consumers to a new growing region for 6 years now.

Brand lines widen along the country of origin and the method of roasting, among others

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Zita Müller
brand manager
Maresi Foodbroker

Maresi coffee milks have been key players in the coffee creamer market for several decades, because of their premium quality, well-known design and long years of brand building.

Top quality Maresi coffee milks guarantee the perfect coffee experience. The products are made using a special process and are available in 3 versions: Original, Light and Maresi Bio. Consumers like to try free-from, low fat and plant-based products, so sales of the company’s Light products are growing year after year. //