This week I'll be in Sydney for the annual Glocal Coffee distributor conference.  Global Coffeee are the Australian importers of the Jura range and the owners of the Lazumba brand. 

 

Much of the conference is, of course, devoted to promoting the sales and distribution of Jura & Lazumba.  The venue does however also provide the benefit of networking with other distributors from around Australia.  We are joined at the conference with people from each state and territory whom face similar business challenges as us.

 

Challenges that we are seeing in the market include increased competition and declining margins.  Pretty standard business issues.  The conference provides an opportunity away from the hustle and bustle of daily coffee distribution to reflect upon what we are doing and how we are doing it.  Very profitable activities for business managers.

 

As well as the business networking, hopefully we might even score a free feed (or 2).