As well as other fantastic organisations.
We were also proud to support other important organisations and community initiatives this year, including Supporting Strong Women, Scarf, StreetSmart, Food Bank and the Santa Clara Scholarship Program. Altogether, we raised and donated over $11,000 to these organisations, as well as $5000 in in-kind donations.
We held some super fun and engaging team training events.
These included a palate calibration course with our Training Manager Einar, a tour of La Marzocco’s showroom and workshop, a drink tasting with NON, a ‘World Tour of Whiskey’ session with Dominik Holzer, and a wine and coffee tasting with the team from Mac Forbes Wines.
We hosted friends from afar.
We absolutely love working with Silvio Leite and Fabiano Borré – our long-time producing partners and dear friends from Brazil – and we were over the moon to host them in Australia in March. The pair visited our shops, as well as some of our wholesale partners and industry friends and peers. They also gave a fascinating, illuminating and entertaining talk at our roastery about their producing work in Brazil’s famous Piatã growing region. We are so grateful to Silvio and Fabiano for travelling all this way and so generously and thoughtfully bringing their work, expertise and coffees to life for our community. It made us understand and appreciate more than ever the hard work, care and dedication that goes into producing the exceptional Brazilian coffees we drink and enjoy every year.
And we travelled to visit our producing partners.
Market Lane Co-founders Fleur and Jason visited Colombia, Jason went to Ethiopia, our Roasting Consultant Toshi visited Brazil, and our Copywriter & Storyteller Abby travelled to Rwanda.