A chance meeting with a Kiwi roaster in Brazil led Nicole Ferris to Climpson & Sons in London – and now, as MD, she’s in charge of the company’s strategy
Climpson & Sons surely did not know what it was getting when it employed Nicole Ferris as an administrator in 2011. Having worked her way through the company ranks to become managing director, Nicole is a key person on the coffee scene and is central to Climpson & Sons’ success and superb reputation. She also has a renowned coffee palate and finished second in the 2017 UK Cup Tasters Championship.
Singapore-born but raised in New Zealand, Nicole started working in coffee at the age of 15, around the same time she began to enjoy drinking it. Initially she favoured double-shot 6oz dry mochas before moving on to flat whites, although now she says her favourite way to drink coffee is to cup it. After a few years in hospitality in Auckland, she went travelling in South and Central America for a year.
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