The La Cimbali UK team and their customers play for the Golf Challenge Trophy at Goodwood Park Course

Recently, the La Cimbali team took some time away from their Espressos and coffee 
machines for a spot of golf with their customers, and played for the La Cimbali Golf 
Challenge Trophy. Every year, a different golf course is chosen, and this year it was 
at Goodwood.

Goodwood is a picturesque golf course in West Sussex, which has recently been 
ranked as 59th in Golf World Magazine’s Top 100 English Courses, and is ‘home’ to 
the English PGA Championship. 

There are two courses – The Park Course, which surrounds the flint walls of 
Goodwood House and is bordered by three hundred year old Cedar trees, is the less 
challenging, but it’s still tricky to keep any golfer on their toes! 

This course is perfect for all golfers of all ages and abilities, and measuring 6,550 
yards of luscious greens and fairways around Goodwood House. The Downs 
Course, which rises steeply from the clubhouse and is perched high on the South 
Downs, gives golfers incredible views of Chichester Cathedral, down to the Isle of 
Wight, and beyond. The course is the ultimate golf experience for the avid golfer 
and is the course that the La Cimbali team and their customers played on. 

The teams, led by a La Cimbali staff member, were very lucky with the weather – a 
clear bright day with a gentle breeze. 

Carl Bjorkstrand, Managing Director at La Cimbali said, “We were all really looking 
forward to our day out, and from the start the Goodwood staff were great, really 
flexible, and tailored our day to exactly match our needs. On arrival we were taken 
to our personalised locker room, allocated caddies, given a briefing and detailed 
instructions by resident PGA professionals who also answered any questions, 
provided with all the necessary equipment – buggies and course planners etc. before 
we were taken to the green to tee off!” 

Carl continued, “We all really enjoyed the day. It was a completely different way for 
us to spend time with each other and our customers, and productive as well as great 
fun in an exceptional environment. 

David Turney from Peros, who is an excellent golfer, was the overall individual 
winner of the La Cimbali Golf Challenge Trophy. Mike Abrams, our Sales Manager, 
led the winning team and Craig Smith, our IT Systems Administrator, ‘won’ the 
wooden spoon! 

We all had a fantastic day and the Goodwood team provided a first class service 
from start to finish.” 

The Cup North Coffee Event Starts This Weekend In Manchester

Put together by the coffee community of Manchester, the inaugural Cup North, the first major coffee festival to take place outside of London is being held this weekend – 1^st& 2^nd November at Artwork, Greengate Manchester.  This fabulous artisan coffee event will showcase all that is brilliant about the UK coffee industry and the increasing and emerging coffee scene in the North of England.

The two day event will see participation from a wide range of coffee businesses.  Events running throughout the two days will give visitors the chance to learn, sample and buy some of the outstanding coffee roasted in the UK.  The show will be hosting cupping’s, demonstrations, talks, tastings, and more.  Other aspects of the industry will be represented by tea and chocolate merchants, independent street food vendors and brewers.

As part of the kickstarter campaign and supporter of Cup North, La Cimbali will be showcasing their top Commercial and Professional Espresso Coffee Machines. 

We will be demonstrating creativity and consistency showing how we can embrace technology to help control some of the main variables in the barista working day. Two of our best coffee machines will form part of our showcase in the event - the M100 HD Espresso coffee machine and the M34 coffee machine.

The M100 HD Espresso coffee machine assists with the creativity of changing the flavour balance of Espresso using controllable and repeatable pressure profiles that can be easily tweaked by the user.Plus, we will have our M34 machine with Bluetooth grinder with us using the Perfect Grinding System, which will re-calibrate the grinder for busy baristas.  

We have also teamed up with Dark Woods Coffee Roasters (one of the newest coffee roasters in the north!) for the event - so come along to taste some great Espresso!

Our very own Coffee Specialist, Rob Ward and team will be making lots of new coffees for visitors to try, and be on hand to answer any questions that you may have, offer practical advice and listen to views and thoughts on anything and everything coffee!

Other things to expect at Cup North aside from amazing coffees to discover include cocktails, beers, cold brew, and latte art competitions (and yes, that means prizes).

There are still tickets available so please go to www.cupnorth.co.uk where you can purchase online.

We look forward to you joining us at the weekend to drink and talk everything coffee!

Cimbali UK Learn That Espresso Coffee Is Good For Your Hair Follicles!

The latest buzz in the hair world is that caffeine, a naturally growing compound found in several plants can make your locks grow faster! La Cimbali UK learned that according to a new study, caffeine doesn’t just perk up your brain neurons in the morning, it makes your hair grow faster too as the psychotropic substance caffeine is known to stimulate our body, mind and now even our hair roots.  

The caffeine in coffee keeps us awake, alert and active whenever we need a little more energy and a boost any time of the day. And, it does the same to our hair follicles by stimulating, strengthening and generally making the roots more manageable.

The International Journal of Dermatology has found that caffeine stimulates the hair shaft and helps it grow faster by blocking the effects of DHT, a chemical known to damage follicles.  Drinking strong coffee with high caffeine content can help this. However, applying it topically in the form of concentrated hair products will also do the job.  The study, which was carried out on both male and female scalps, showed that female hair follicles were found to be more responsive to caffeine’s growth-boosting properties than men’s.

The findings echoed a study from 2007, which was also conducted by the International Journal of Dermatology. The study found that caffeine boosted the lengths of hairs between 33% and 40%.  Hair follicles that were treated with caffeine showed a highly significant growth rate at 24 hours and amazingly, still showed further significant growth at eight days.  There are now many caffeine containing hair care products available on the market today which all promise fuller and faster growing tresses!

Of course, it is important to remember that healthy hair and regular hair growth relies on a number of other factors, including vitamins, minerals and the presence of other nutrients in a healthy, well balanced diet and lifestyle.  Moreover, medications, genetics, nutritional deficiencies and some underlying diseases and disorders can all negatively affect your hair.

But still, it is good to know that there is a great way to encourage hair growth while at the same time enjoy every sip and every moment of it.

Then again, for those of you reading this at work……. you will probably not encourage hair growth by extending your coffee breaks during the day!  Maybe getting a double Espresso will do double the job in half the time!

Caffe Latte and La Cimbali UK join forces at The National Franchise Exhibition

The National Franchise Exhibition, the UK’s largest franchise event supported by the British Franchise Association, took place at the NEC, Birmingham 3 & 4 October. Thousands of aspiring business owners headed to the NEC for the prospect of finding a superb business opportunity, and the chance to meet with more than 140 leading franchise brands face-to-face, and to hear industry experts provide valuable guidance through free seminars and one-to-one advice clinics.  The stream of would-be entrepreneurs rushing to this event and to other similar exhibitions nationwide, is a measure of the increasing popularity of starting and running a business in this country, particularly as a franchisee.

Founded in 2008, Caffe Latte is a traditional coffee shop franchise with skilfully trained baristas making proper coffees, and for the first time this October,they exhibited at the event hoping to sell their successful franchise concept to prospective franchisees.

Caffe Latte has an established franchise model which has proven to be very successful, and so not surprisingly was the busiest stand at the show making the event a huge success for them.As a customer of La Cimbali UK we offered to put one of our new M34 super automatic coffee machines with integral PGS (Perfect Grinding System) on their stand to help attract customers and to show off the Caffe Latte coffee.  Hence, plenty of 8oz Lattes were made for every visitor to the stand, which were very well received. 

Francesca, the Managing Director ofCaffe Latte team said “Having one of La Cimbali’s best superautomatic coffee machines on our standnot only attracted plenty of people but it also created a stir showing how great the coffee machine is, as well as the delicious tasting coffee it produced.  We became a talking point as the lovely aromas spread around the hall which further enhanced the successful long-standing relationship that we have with La Cimbali, and in particular with our dedicated Sales Manager Mike Abrams.His help and advice on the stand was invaluable.”

The great combination of Caffe Latte's coffee and barista expertise and La Cimbali UK's new M34 super automatic coffee machines showcased a perfect partnership at The British Franchise Show that undoubtedly attracted a lot of passersby to their booth. 

It's truly hard to ignore the wonderful scent of coffee in the air! That's why, it is no wonder that the great combination of Caffe Latte's coffee and barista expertise and La Cimbali UK's new M34 super automatic coffee machines not only attracted a lot of passersby to their booth but they also showcased what a perfect partnership at The British Franchise Show was and should be. 

For more information regarding La Cimbali UK's M34 super automatic coffee machines with integral Perfect Grinding System or Caffe Latte's franchising opportunity, please go to: www.caffelatte.org.uk