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All in a day’s work

John Russell Storey is the Marketing Manager of Trade at Cofi-Com.

Cofi-Com’s Operations and Trading Manager Dariusz Lewandowski and I are between origin trips at the moment. We’re giving our passports a rest and wistfully reminiscing about the last plantations and the folks we saw and talked to. That being said, two weeks ago Dariusz snuck in a quick trip to Papua New Guinea.

So what happens between trips? What is a normal day like as a coffee trader and what do we actually do? Is it all about slurping coffee all day, chatting to our many customers and discussing the minutiae of various processing techniques? Well, sort of.

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