Another puzzle

There are a lot of bars, cafés and teashops on the Isle of Wight, a large proportion of which sell coffee, a large proportion of which fly the Lavazza flag, a big Italian brand of which I had only been slightly, if at all aware of previously. Their sales team had clearly done a good job on the southern island.

I assume that if you had a Lavazza board on the pavement, you would have both Lavazza coffee and a Lavazza coffee machine inside, an assumption which tested out in one or two places. Not a thorough job though as I only rarely drink coffee, and then only after a meal in a restaurant. And we gave up trying to make fancy coffee at home years ago - and while BH drinks a fair amount of the stuff, she mostly drinks one of the respectable instants.

So in an idle moment, I remember about them and turn up their websites. Plenty of coffee and plenty of domestic coffee machines but I couldn't find the big caterers' machines at all, the sort of thing you might pay a thousand or two or more for. So where do you go for them?

But I did find out that they are into fancy photography, producing an arty calendar every year. Bing turns up what seemed liked hundreds of these photographs, or perhaps they would be better called confections. All very Italian and a certain amount of glamour, but nothing like the Pirelli girlie calendar of old, with these pictures being much more varied, more fun and more arty.

Also that they are big into blending coffee, quite possibly from more than one country. None of this nonsense about just from this one special field in this one special valley in Brazil.

PS: the solution to the previous puzzle, at reference 5, flows from setting the proportion of fund F2 owned by F1 to P1 and the proportion of fund F1 owned by F2 to P2. With the answers involving a factor of 1/(1 - P1×P2) - a number which gets large as P1 and P2 get close to 1. With the whole system quite properly breaking down when P1 and P2 are both 1. The good news is that the amount of dividend flowing to I1 and I2 is always the sum of the profits distributed by C1 and C2. None of the large fake flows between F1 and F2 go missing. But they do go to share the risks a bit. And it may be that the large fake flows are interesting from a corporate tax evasion point of view.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavazza.

Reference 2: https://www.lavazza.com/en.html. Lavazza central.

Reference 3: https://www.lavazza.co.uk/en. Lavazza UK.

Reference 4: https://www.tchibo-coffee.co.uk/. The competition? From our very own Blenheim Road. Probably not, as it looks as if they are more into corporate coffee of one sort or another, rather than coffee shops and retail.

Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-puzzle.html.