NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Zona's 15 points off the bench led Fordham to an 87-83 victory over Albany (NY) on Saturday. Zona shot 5 for 7, including 3 for 4 from beyond the arc for the Rams (8-5). Jahmere Tripp added 14 points while shooting 5 of 7 from the field and 3 for 3 from the line while they also had six rebounds and three steals. Jackie Johnson III shot 4 for 14 (1 for 5 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points. The Great Danes (7-7) were led by Amar'e Marshall, who recorded 24 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals. Albany (NY) also got 19 points, eight rebounds and two steals from Justin Neely. Byron Joshua finished with 16 points and five assists. Josh Rivera scored 11 points in the first half for Fordham, who led 46-35 at halftime. Fordham took the lead for good with 12:53 left in the second half on a 3-pointer from Zona to make it a 57-54 game. Fordham's next game is Tuesday against Saint Louis at home. Albany (NY) hosts Stony Brook on Sunday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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President-elect Donald Trump nominated his former White House domestic policy adviser Brooke Rollins for Agriculture Secretary, he announced on Truth Social Saturday afternoon . President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday selected Brooke Rollins, a former White House domestic policy adviser, to serve as his agriculture secretary. “Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second to none,” Trump said . “As our next Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke will spearhead the effort to protect American Farmers, who are truly the backbone of our Country.” Rollins is the president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank led by former Trump officials, which was created with the goal of preparing for the president-elect’s return to the White House. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Rollins was the expected nominee for the cabinet position. If confirmed, she would be tasked with leading a nearly 100,000-person department that handles farm policy but also oversees forestry, food safety, nutrition and rural development programs. Rollins likely would play a role in discussions about Trump’s decisions over implement broad tariffs on US imports , which could ultimately impact American farmers. She also would be expected to shape renegotiations next year of the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal amid disagreements such as Mexico attempting to block imports of genetically modified corn and Canada instituting quotas for dairy imports. Rollins, who described herself as a “small-town ag girl” from Glen Rose, Texas, promised to “fight for America’s farmers and our Nation’s agricultural communities” following the news of her nomination. The former chair of the Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s first term, Rollins previously was seen as a potential contender for serving as the White House chief of staff during his second administration. That post ultimately went to Susie Wiles , who was Trump’s campaign manager during his latest bid for the White House. Trump also had considered nominating former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, whom he has already tapped to co-chair his inaugural committee, to serve as Agriculture Secretary, CNN reported Friday . A representative for Trump’s transition team did not respond to a request for comment. With Post wires.The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early Saturday, a day after the Huthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh air strikes. Sirens sounded in areas of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea on Saturday as “a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted... prior to crossing into Israeli territory”, the Israeli military said. The day before, a fresh air strike hit Sanaa, which Huthi rebels blamed on “US-British aggression” though it remains unclear who was behind it. There was no comment from Israel, the United States or Britain. “I heard the blast. My house shook,” one Sanaa resident told AFP late Friday. The Iran-backed Huthis control large parts of Yemen after seizing Sanaa and ousting the government in 2014. Since the eruption of war in Gaza in October last year, the Huthis — claiming solidarity with Palestinians — have fired a series of missiles and drones at Israel. They have stepped up their attacks since November’s ceasefire between Israel and another Iran-backed group, Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel has also struck Yemen, including targeting Sanaa’s international airport on Thursday in an attack that came as the head of the World Health Organization was about to board a plane. The Huthis have also attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea, prompting reprisal strikes by the United States and sometimes Britain. Earlier Friday, before the strike on Sanaa, tens of thousands of people gathered to protest and express solidarity with Palestinians. “The equation has changed and has become: (targeting) airport for airport, port for port, and infrastructure for infrastructure,” Huthi supporter Mohammed al-Gobisi said. “We will not get tired or bored of supporting our brothers in Gaza.” Israel’s strike on the Sanaa international airport on Thursday shattered windows and left the top of the control tower a bombed-out shell. A witness told AFP that the raids also targeted the adjacent Al-Dailami air base, which shares the airport’s runway. “The attack resulted in four dead until now and around 20 wounded from staff, airport and passengers,” Huthi Deputy Transport Minister Yahya al-Sayani said. It occurred as the head of the UN’s World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was preparing to fly out, and left one UN crew member injured. Tedros was in Yemen to seek the release of UN staff detained for months by the Huthis, and to assess the humanitarian situation. He later posted on social media that he had safely reached Jordan with his team. He said the injured member of the UN’s Humanitarian Air Service “underwent successful surgery and is now in stable condition”. Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether they knew at the time that the WHO chief was there. An Israeli statement said its targets included “military infrastructure” at the airport and power stations in Sanaa and Hodeida — a major entry point for humanitarian aid — as well as other facilities at several ports. Huthis use these sites “to smuggle Iranian weapons into the region and for the entry of senior Iranian officials”, the statement said. But UN humanitarian coordinator Julien Harneis said the airport was “a civilian location” which the UN also uses, and the strikes took place as “a packed civilian airliner from Yemenia Air, carrying hundreds of Yemenis, was about to land”. Although the plane “was able to land safely... it could have been far, far worse”, Harneis said. In his latest warning to the Huthis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s strikes would “continue until the job is done”. “We are determined to cut this branch of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil,” he said in a video statement. Despite the damage, flights at Sanaa airport resumed at 10 am (0700 GMT) on Friday, deputy transport minister Sayani said. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced the escalation in hostilities, and said bombing transportation infrastructure threatened humanitarian operations in Yemen, where 80 percent of the population depends on aid. The United Nations has called Yemen “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world”, with 24.1 million people in need of humanitarian aid and protection. The airport is “absolutely vital” to continue transporting aid for Yemen, UN humanitarian coordinator Harneis said. “If that airport is disabled, it will paralyze humanitarian operations.” After the attack on Sanaa airport, Huthis said they fired a missile at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv and launched drones at the city and a ship in the Arabian Sea. The Israeli military said the same day a missile launched from Yemen had been intercepted. Israeli “aggression will only increase the determination and resolve of the great Yemeni people to continue supporting the Palestinian people”, a Huthi statement said Friday.
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With an expert-led curriculum, extensive resources, and personalized coaching, Interview Kickstart supports individuals in reaching their career aspirations and excelling in competitive tech roles. ### For more information about Interview Kickstart, contact the company here: Interview Kickstart Burhanuddin Pithawala +1 (209) 899-1463 [email protected] 4701 Patrick Henry Dr Bldg 25, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States CONTACT: Burhanuddin PithawalaATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. As reaction poured in from around the world, President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and he lost a dear friend. Biden cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless and advocacy for the disadvantaged as an example for others. “To all of the young people in this nation and for anyone in search of what it means to live a life of purpose and meaning – the good life – study Jimmy Carter, a man of principle, faith, and humility,” Biden said in a statement. “He showed that we are a great nation because we are a good people – decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong.” Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” Sanz is a former Associated Press reporter.
People want to see Bilawal as PM, says governor LAHORE:Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan has said that the people of Pakistan want to see Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as the prime minister of the country. He said this while talking to a delegation of People's Lawyers Forum (PLF) Gujranwala Division which called on him at the Governor’s House here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, Punjab governor said that the People's Lawyers Forum has played a key role in the restoration of democracy. He said that civil disobedience call by a political party is equal to anti-nation call. He stated that the dialogue is the best solution and every problem can be resolved on negotiation table. He said that Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has a historic role in the establishment of constitutional bench. The governor said that due to the 26th Constitutional Amendment, the path of conspiratorial elements working against democracy was blocked. He further said that every person, including lawyers, has to play a positive role for the development and prosperity of Pakistan. He said that Pakistan is currently facing internal and external conspiracies which have to be thwarted together.
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An increase in coffee prices compels coffee shops to pay more for sourcing beans, potentially compressing their profit margins. This could result in higher prices for consumers or the necessity to find alternative, less expensive suppliers. Conversely, a decrease in coffee prices offers coffee shops the chance to expand their profit margins or provide promotions to draw in more customers. However, unanticipated price fluctuations create planning and budgeting uncertainties for coffee shops, making it difficult for them to effectively manage expenses. To mitigate the impact of fluctuating coffee prices, coffee shops must closely observe coffee market tendencies, adjust their pricing strategies, and maintain adaptability in sourcing. Consequently, the volatile coffee bean prices are anticipated to restrain the growth of the global specialty coffee shops market throughout the forecast period. Specialty coffee shops face unique challenges in today's market. The espresso culture and latte artistry require barista expertise and roasting mastery. Cold brew techniques add to the menu diversity. Independent cafes and local roasters compete with coffee shop chains and premium coffee brands. Sustainable sourcing, fair trade practices, and direct trade relationships are essential for ethical and organic offerings. Sustainable and ethical practices, including sustainable brewing methods and coffee education, are crucial for engaging customers. Atmosphere design and community engagement contribute to the coffee culture and tasting experiences. Specialty drinks, brewing methods, and flavor profiles differentiate these shops from mass-market competitors. Menu diversity, specialty coffee events, coffee subscription services, and coffee workshops help build a loyal customer base. Specialty coffee roasting, sustainable practices, and beverage innovation are key drivers in the artisan coffee market. Third-wave movement, single-origin beans, and artisanal roasting are shaping the future of the sector. Discover how AI is revolutionizing market trends- Get your access now! Segment Overview This specialty coffee shops market report extensively covers market segmentation by 1.1 Independent coffee shops 1.2 Chain coffee shops 2.1 Offline 2.2 Online 3.1 North America 3.2 Europe 3.3 APAC 3.4 South America 3.5 Middle East and Africa 1.1 Independent coffee shops- The independent coffee shop market, defined as coffee businesses operating at under five locations, is projected to experience consistent expansion in the forecast period. This growth is primarily driven by the increasing number of gourmet coffee shops worldwide. The preference for artisanal coffee among urban populations in developed countries is leading vendors to expand their businesses to cater to this demographic. However, independent coffee shops face significant competition from multinational chain coffee shops. Despite this challenge, the independent coffee shop segment is a significant contributor to the global specialty coffee market. These establishments distinguish themselves through their focus on quality beans from ethical and sustainable sources, artisanal brewing methods, and personalized customer experiences. Independent coffee shops often function as community hubs, fostering a sense of connection and supporting local economies and small-scale coffee producers. Their adaptability enables them to cater to niche markets and experiment with unique flavors, brewing techniques, and menu offerings, making them an attractive choice for discerning coffee enthusiasts. Download a Sample of our comprehensive report today to discover how AI-driven innovations are reshaping competitive dynamics Research Analysis The Specialty Coffee Sector, also known as the Premium Coffee Market, is a niche segment of the global coffee industry that focuses on high-quality, unique, and distinctive coffee beans. Specialty Coffee Brands and Coffee Roasters prioritize single-origin beans, artisanal roasting, and ethical sourcing practices such as Sustainable Sourcing, Fair Trade, and Direct Trade Relationships. Espresso Culture and Latte Artistry are key elements of the Specialty Coffee experience, showcasing the expertise of skilled Baristas. Cold Brew Techniques and Specialty Blends offer diverse and innovative coffee experiences. Micro-roasteries and Tasting Experiences allow consumers to explore Roasting Mastery and Brewing Methods. Coffee Subscription Services provide regular access to freshly roasted beans, while Specialty Coffee Trends continue to push the boundaries of the industry. Market Research Overview The Specialty Coffee Sector, also known as the Artisan Coffee Market, is a thriving industry characterized by Independent Coffee Shops and Local Coffee Shops that prioritize quality and unique coffee experiences. The Premium Coffee Market caters to consumers seeking out exceptional beans and innovative beverages. Coffee Roasters and Specialty Coffee Brands play a crucial role in sourcing and producing Single-origin Beans, while Artisanal Roasting and Craft Brewing bring out the distinct flavors and aromas. Espresso Culture and Latte Artistry have gained significant popularity, with Barista Expertise and Specialty Blends adding to the allure. Cold Brew Techniques and Sustainable Practices, including Fair Trade Practices, Direct Trade Relationships, Organic Offerings, and Ethical Sourcing, are essential aspects of the Specialty Coffee Culture. Third-wave Movement innovations include Roasting Mastery, Brewing Methods, Coffee Knowledge, and Flavor Profiles. Community Engagement, Atmosphere Design, Menu Diversity, and Specialty Coffee Events contribute to the overall experience. Coffee Subscription Services, Coffee Workshops, and Coffee Education further enhance the connection between consumers and their favorite brews. Table of Contents: 1 Executive Summary 2 Market Landscape 3 Market Sizing 4 Historic Market Size 5 Five Forces Analysis 6 Market Segmentation Type Independent Coffee Shops Chain Coffee Shops Distribution Channel Offline Online Geography North America Europe APAC South America Middle East And Africa 7 Customer Landscape 8 Geographic Landscape 9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends 10 Company Landscape 11 Company Analysis 12 Appendix About Technavio Technavio is a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions. With over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio's report library consists of more than 17,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. 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