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Fa-brew-lous! Poland Europe’s third largest market for coffee machines

The data from consumer market research firm Growth from Knowledge (GfK), revealed that coffee sales in the first half of 2021 reached PLN 1.54 billion, an increase of just over 7 percent on the same time last year. Andrew Neel/Unsplash

The data from consumer market research firm Growth from Knowledge (GfK), revealed that coffee sales in the first half of 2021 reached PLN 1.54 billion, an increase of  just over 7 percent on the same time last year.

Sale of Fairtrade products in Poland sets record

Poles bought a record number of products under the Fairtrade brand last year, with coffee and chocolate topping the shopping list, the Fairtrade Foundation stated in a report published on Thursday.

Don’t worry be frappe, Kraków officials tell locals as they sprinkle COFFEE on pathways to stop people slipping over

Inspired by an initiative started in Ukraine, so far 40 cafes around the city have answered the eco-friendly call to donate used coffee grounds. If effective the coffee grounds will be used on main paths around the city and could become a mainstay of the city’s strategy for maintaining the accessibility of Kraków’s parks in winter.

Brew-tiful: the legendary 1950s roasting machine wowing Poland’s coffee geeks!

Discovered rusting in a barn, the machine took three-years to restore before becoming the ace card in a father and son’s coffee business.

How a Pole brought coffee to Europe

It was Jerzy Kulczycki who is thought to have opened the first coffee house in Vienna following the Ottoman siege there in 1683.

Refusing to be ground down: Warsaw’s independent cafés keep fighting despite lockdown

Determined to keep operating cafés are coming up with creative ways to keep customers supplied with good cups of coffee.

Higher calling: Christian café becomes a hit with Warsaw’s coffee loving faithful

Welcoming all, the café has turned heads with speed-dating events for Christians.

Wrocław café creates a buzz by encouraging people to buy food and drink for those in need

The “Coffee on Hold” concept is becoming an increasingly popular way of helping the elderly, the lonely and those down on their luck.

All things great and small: Poland’s tiniest café is showing what big dreams are made of

From immeasurably modest beginnings, this Ukrainian couple have become role models for the entrepreneurial spirits, and their six metre café a bastion of inter-national relations.

Brew-tiful times: TFN explores the origins and progress of Poland’s coffee revolution

Once under the cosh of tea, coffee has flourished as people embrace the café culture and appreciate a good brew.

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The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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