Stretto is a coffee brand introduced in 2008 by the Romanian company Alka, which has over 20 years of experience processing coffee. Stretto offers a variety of high quality coffee blends for retail and professional (HORECA) use. The retail line includes espresso blends while the HORECA line offers barista, bistro, filter and decaffeinated coffees. Alka employs hundreds of professionals to sell and distribute Stretto coffee to thousands of outlets across Romania.

1. Mitrea Gabriela
Grupa 8212
STRETTO – “The Sharing
Experience”
Facultatea de Management şi Inginerie economică în alimentaţie publică şi agroturism
Specializare: Management în alimentaţie publică şi agroturism

2. About Us
• STRETTO - "The Sharing Experience" is an absolute novelty brought by
Alka in 2008, which offers a modern positioning, with high quality.
• Alka is the first local company processor of coffee with an experience of
over 20 years. The knowledge it gained during this period, and the use of
raw materials of the highest quality, brought Alka near the most important
players in the field in Romania.This obliges us to have a certain
responsibility to our consumers, which in turn, appreciate our products and
their quality
• Stretto also offers modern solutions, complete and profitable for any
business, be it cafes, restaurants, hotels, coffee TO GO Catering or office
spaces etc.
• To satisfy all tastes and preferences that are out there, Stretto offers a wide
range of blends, differing in origin and taste.
• Through a team of several hundred professionals in the sales and
distribution area, Alka Group covers thousands of outlets both in traditional
commerce, in modern trade and Horeca segment.

3. Products
Retail Products:
Coffee Espresso
• "Good taste of success"
• Espresso Stretto is the perfect
guide on a extremely refined
journey of Italian inspiration. It
is a coffee capable of pleasing
even the most demanding
individuals in the field and
allows the bartenders to be
creative and always find new
delicious recipes.
• Regardless of the coffee
recipe, surely it will taste very
good and memorable.

4. Products
Horeca Products:
Coffee Barista
"Good taste of success"
• Stretto Barista is the perfect guide on
a extremely refined journey of Italian
inspiration It is a coffee that meets the
most demanding connoisseurs votes in
coffee maker and allows bartenders to
be creative and to prepare new recipes,
always surprising.
• Even when the recipe is simple, the
coffee will be certainly one delicious.
• For these reasons, Stretto Barista is a
profitable business for you!
Coffee Bistro
"Plates coffee revisions"
• With a creamy consistency making it
extremely pleasant, the coffee Stretto
Bistro is a glamorous experience.
• Stretto Bistro is all about making
good coffee, discussions more
interesting with colleagues and
friends making your place the talk of
the town, lively and full of good
mood!

5. Stretto Coffee Filter
"No morning without coffee flavored"
• Stretto Filter is a premium ground coffee
with a rich, robust and refined taste.
• Designed to prepare the professional filter
coffee providing the guests at breakfast
and in the pause between two
presentations at a seminar.
• It is a card for each host, whether it is a
hotel, a catering company, a conference
room or a company specializing in events.
Coffee Decaffeinated Stretto
"Coffee right at any time"
• Who says that decaffeinated coffee is
not good is wrong.
• Decaffeinated coffee Stretto is what
changes your mind about this variety
of coffee.
• The beans are subject to modern
procedures which allows the coffee to
keep its properties intact, only
removing caffeine.

6. Office Products Complementary Products:
Stretto Business Class
"... Even the great performers need short breaks"
• Stretto found the
right formula for
each of the areas
where coffee
consumption is
high.
• For all business
premises (offices,
conference halls,
hotels, etc), Stretto
offers a variety of
coffee which
certainly will work
as an incentive for
all employees
(consumers of
coffee), and, why
not, as a evidence of
management
concern ...
• Component complementary
products were carefully chosen to
fit perfectly with the taste of coffee
offered by Stretto.
• Either complementary coffee
products - from sugar, crackers or
condensed milk- meets the most
stringent quality standards, and their
role is to highlight additional
qualities of coffees prepared
according to authentic Italian
recipes to give customers a perfect
pleasure.

7. What you did not know about coffee
1. Residents of New York consumes seven times more coffee than any other US
citizen.. In New York there are all the big names cafes.
2. World record in current coffee consumption was recorded by a man who consumed
82 cups of coffee in seven hours.
3. Over 40% of world coffee is produced in Africa and South America.
4. During the Second World War, soldiers used to emulate a contest of coffee
consumption. Soldiers of the US Navy recorded a record of 20 cups a day.
5. In 1600, a French doctor has prescribed his patients to add milk to coffee;. That’s
how café au lait appeared.
6. Because espresso is an essential part of everyday life, the Italian government issued a
series of laws on preparation.
7. Johann Sebastian Bach composed an opera about a woman who was dependent on
coffee.
8. The average age of specialists in coffee (barista) in Italy is 48 years, is a highly
respected profession.
9. The highest consumption of coffee / capital in the world is registered in Finland,
Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
10. To make a good espresso, you need the four "m“s: macinazione (correct grinding
coffee beans), miscela (grain mix), machina (espresso) and mano (barista, coffee
specialist).
11. In 1763 there were 200 cafes in Venice.. In Italy, today, more than 200,000 cafes are
open and the number is still growing.

8. Bibliography
• http://www.stretto.ro/