Nespresso to help South Sudan rebuild coffee industry
Zurich
NESPRESSO, the world's biggest single-serve coffee brand, will start selling capsules containing coffee from South Sudan in an effort to help rebuild an industry that nearly disappeared during decades of civil war.
The Nestle SA unit will invest about 2.5 million Swiss francs (S$3.7 million) in South Sudan by the end of 2016, and it's the first time the four-year-old country exports coffee, according to Nespresso chief executive officer Jean-Marc Duvoisin. Nespresso's limited editi…
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