The International Conference on Management, Economics & Social Science (https://researchfora.com/Conference/12818/ICMESS/) took place on 26-27 April 2026 in Tokyo. This event was organised by Research Fora. The conference sessions provided an ideal platform for presentations, discussions, critical feedback and the exchange of innovative ideas, as well as discussions about current challenges in management, economics and social sciences.

    The Coffee and Tea Market Research Institute was represented at this event by the following members of the management board:  Prof. Grzegorz Maciejewski, post PhD and Prof. Łukasz Wróblewski, post PhD. Participation in the conference provided both professors with an excellent opportunity to present the results of their latest research on ‘phygital consumers’, i.e. consumers functioning at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds, in the form of speeches. Their presentations will be published as peer-reviewed scientific articles in one of the journals indexed in the SCOPUS database, as well as in the conference proceedings.

    Participation in the conference also provided an opportunity to promote the scientific Coffee and Tea Marketing Journal, the fifth issue of which is due to be published in June 2026. Prof. Vanda Maráková, Faculty of Economics, Metej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Prof. Jan Hán, PhD University College Prague, Czech Republic and Prof. Virupakshaiah DBM, Department of Microbiology, Davangere University, Karnataka, India accepted invitations to join the journal’s Scientific Council.