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ARIZONA MUSE Fashion model, MC of the 5th Annual Ernesto illy;
ANDREA ILLY Chairman of illycaffè;
MASSIMILIANO POGLIANI CEO of illycaffè;
ANNA ILLY Chief Ethics Officer & Board Member ofillycaffè;
ALESSANDRO BUCCI Green Coffee Procurement Director of illycaffè;
DAVID BRUSSA Quality & Sustainability Director of illycaffè.

ANDREA ILLY

The winner is Cooperativa Cocabel in Honduras, which won
in both categories: “Best of the Best” and “Coffee Lover’s Choice”,
after a series of blind tastings by two independent juries, one
comprising experts and the other consumers. “This time the panel
of experts and the consumers agreed with the former qualitative
analysis showing it matched consumers’ taste. This is a well-deserved
recognition of the extraordinary work carried out day by day with
great dedication by men and women from the Cocabel cooperative.”
said illycaffè’s Chairman Andrea Illy.
The Cocabel cooperative managed to draw together small coffee
growers united by the awareness that sustainable quality beings with
the plant. With the Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award the com-
pany aims to emphasize the importance of the care that growers put
into their plantation, whether large or small, because it is the starting
point for a virtuous circle that ends with the cup of coffee being
savoured by its final consumer.

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