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Union drives continued to define the coffee industry in 2025, from strikes at Starbucks to workers organizing at small shops across the U.S.

Starbucks continues trying to be a coffeeshop again, new consumption trends, and a year marked by acquisitions and sales.

Tariffs, C market spikes, and new tools to evaluate coffee upend the industry: here are the biggest stories from 2025 in coffee.

From the ever-changing threat of tariffs to big companies continuing to swallow small ones, 2025 was anything but predictable. Here’s (mostly) everything that happened this year.