June 2008

Congratulations to Emma Chapman from our customer the Bottle Kiln at West Hallam in Derbyshire. Emma was crowned UK Coffee in Good Spirits Champion at Caffe Culture in May and followed this with a brilliant 5th place in the world final in Copenhagen on 18th June. Well done Emma!

May 2008

Cafe Sienna have acquired the business of Janines Consortium, a South Yorkshire based supplier of table top coffee machines and ingredients. This widens our range of machinery to include Vienna and Sienna machines from Darenth and also Matrix Soluble Machines. It also widens our product range with the addition of World's Finest Soluble ingredients and Kenco beans and soluble products.

February 2008

Congratualtions to Hugo Hercod, winner of the UK Barista Championship 2008 and good luck when he represents the UK in the world finals in Copenhagen in June.

Also competing was Maxine Beadsmoore from our customer the Bottle Kiln at West Hallam in Derbyshire. She came a credible 7th, missing out on a final place by only 1/2 a point. Her stunning signature drink, African Sunset, was a layered blend of her specially blended espresso coffee, rose syrup and pistachio cream.

November 2007

Congratulations to two of our customers who won honours in the recent BSA organised BEV-E awards for the best beverage experience in the country. Willis, owned and run by Gillian Bolam, of Jesmond in Newcastle were the Northern Regional winners, and the Bottle Kiln of West Hallam near Ilkeston in Derbyshire, owned and run by Rebecca Stone, were the Midland regional winners and also National Winners. Well Done and congratulations to you both.

The Bottle Kiln ladies accepting their award.

Gillian Bolam of Willi's accepting her award.

September 2007

On 17th September we changed our trading name from Coffee Exchange to Cafe Sienna.

This is the culmination of a long process which started four years ago when we incorporated and the company name became Cafe Sienna Ltd. We then followed this by naming our website www.cafesienna.co.uk and our email address then followed suit. We continued to trade as Coffee Exchange but that name will now cease.

We would like to assure everyone that nothing else will change. People, contact numbers, products, prices and our high level of service will all remain as they were, and we are sure that there will be nothing different in our daily and weekly trading relationship with customers and suppliers, other than the name change.

The staff at Cafe Sienna.

August 2007

Fantastic News! On 1st August Jim Hoffman, the UK Barista Champion was crowned World Barista Champion in Tokyo. Congratulations to Jim!

Click here to see James' performance.

June 2007

David Veal, Managing Director of Cafe Sienna has been appointed the new Chairman / Executive Director of the Beverage Service Association. David said 'I took up this position because I am convinced that the BSA has a role to play. I think that engendering fraternity, and giving a platform for people to meet others in the industry is a great thing...the one bonus the BSA has always had is its contacts and networking. We have often underestimated the value of this and I want to move this forward.' David says that he follows top men who both left their mark. 'The last two appointments, Ranald Paterson and Jim Devlin, were inspired choices - Ranald took the BSA from a low point, and turned it round in terms of vision and morale - membership is up fifty percent in that last four years. Jim's achievement is the City and Guilds VRQ initiative, which he will continue to push - that's his baby, and a fantastic baby it is.'

To find out more about the Beverage Service Association click here.