Archive for February, 2011


Big companies keen on small US one-cup coffee market

By Martinne Geller BOCA RATON, Fla | Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:29pm EST BOCA RATON, Fla (Reuters) – Big food and beverage makers, including Kraft Foods Inc (KFT.N) and Sara Lee Corp (SLE.N), are maneuvering to get more of the small but growing one-cup coffee market in the United States. The small segment of the [...]

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Cocoa ends at 32-year peak, arabica off 30-year peak

By Marcy Nicholson and Nigel Hunt NEW YORK/LONDON | Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:31pm EST NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. cocoa futures rose on Tuesday, closing at the highest level in 32 years on further turmoil in top grower Ivory Coast, while arabica coffee futures slipped from the highest levels in more than three decades. [...]

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Dunkin Donuts Coffee Coming to a Pod Near You

Published February 22, 2011| NewsCore CANTON, Mass. –  Green Mountain Coffee Roasters fell two percent to $40.95 Tuesday after the Vermont-based company said it entered a partnership with Dunkin’ Donuts. Green Mountain said it will make Dunkin’ Donuts coffee available for use in its Keurig single-cup coffee brewers. Dunkin’ Donuts coffee will be packaged in [...]

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Sara Lee makes ambitious plans for single-serve coffee

By Emily Bryson YorkPosted yesterday at 2:35 p.m. Sara Lee may be breaking up, but company executives say that will make it much more focused on the business in which it competes. Chief Executive Marcel Smits laid out Sara Lee’s plans at the Consumer Analysts Conference of New York Tuesday morning to take share from [...]

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Thunder Valley Casino Resort Announces Grand Opening of New Peet's Coffee

You are already following   PEET LINCOLN, Calif., Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Thunder Valley Casino Resort announced today that Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEET), the premier specialty coffee and tea company in the U.S., will become the newest member of the Thunder Valley family. Beginning February 26, Thunder Valley Casino will feature [...]

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