Demand will be 640,320 metric tons by 2019, up from 586,320 tons last year, the Hamburg-based coffee roaster said in a statement e-mailed today. The U.S. is the world’s biggest coffee user followed by Brazil and Germany, according to the International Coffee Organization in London.

Germany’s per capita coffee consumption was 153.4 liters (40.5 gallons) in 2010, beating water and beer, the company said. Table and spring water consumption in 2010 totaled 135.7 liters, and beer came to 107.4 liters, Tchibo said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Isis Almeida in London at ialmeida3@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net

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U.S. consumers said they would need to receive about $2,500 to stay offline for that period, according to a BCG survey released today. Consumers in most countries would require three percent to six percent of their average annual income to follow suit, the study found. All said they valued search, e-mail, online banking and investing functions. BCG interviewed about 1,000 users in each country.

The study shows the importance of the Web to consumers and to businesses trying to reach them through sites, including social-networking company Facebook Inc. (FB) and online-search provider Google Inc. (GOOG) There’s an “explosion” of people buying online, said David Dean, a senior partner at the Boston-based management consulting firm.

“The Internet has become like electricity or water,” said Dominic Field, a partner at BCG in Los Angeles, who along with Dean was one of the authors of the study.

By 2016, the number of global Web users will reach 3 billion from an estimated 1.9 billion in 2010, BCG said. Across the G-20 nations, the Internet economy accounted for an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2011, BCG said.

Were it a country, the Internet economy would be in the top five, behind the U.S., China, Japan and India and ahead of Germany, the study found. In the U.S., the Web’s contribution to 2010 gross domestic product exceeded the federal government’s, according to BCG.

Mobile access will become more important with smartphones and tablets accounting for four out of five broadband connections by 2016, the study showed.

Google, based in Mountain View, California, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) dominated the U.S. smartphone sector in the three months ended January with 78.1 percent of devices carrying their software, ComScore Inc. (SCOR) said March 6. Apple software was found on 29.5 percent of smartphones, while Google had 48.6 percent share.

While the U.S. will still make the largest contribution to Internet-related spending, its leadership is slipping, Field said. The country will account for 25 percent of the total Internet economy in 2016, down from about a third today, he said. The U.S.’s Internet economy is growing slower than that of the U.K., for example.

“One big driver is infrastructure, and the U.S. has historically lagged in smartphone use and broadband speeds in rural areas,” Field said. Some developing countries, such as India, are seeing their Internet economies growing at double the rate of the U.S., he said.

Younger and older users value the Internet the most, the study found.

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The 22-week study carried out on 16 overweight men and women saw that a supplement of green (unroasted) coffee bean, on average, helped the individuals shed 17 pounds.

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Patrons find gilt-edged decor at a Starbucks in an upscale Paris neighborhood as part of the chain’s European makeovers.

PARIS – On a recent sunny morning in this city’s chic Marais district, Marion Bayod squeezed behind a tiny table at Le Cactus, a neighborhood cafe she has frequented for years. She cast a sidelong glance at a Starbucks across the street.

“I never go into Starbucks; it’s impersonal, the coffee is mediocre, and it’s expensive,” said Bayod, a 35-year-old masseuse.

Nearly a decade after venturing into Europe, Starbucks is still laboring to lure people like her. Despite engineering a strong U.S. turnaround and growing steadily in Asia, the company has struggled on the Continent.

Now, Starbucks is embarking on a multimillion-dollar campaign to win over more of Europe’s coffee aficionados – with an upscale makeover of hundreds of stores to cater to an ingrained cafe culture, and adjusting beverages and blends to suit regional palates.

After eight years spent setting up 63 French Starbucks stores, the company has never turned a profit in France. Even in parts of Europe where it does make money, sales and profit growth lag far behind results in the Americas and Asia.

Europe’s debt crisis and sluggish economy are a factor. So are high European rents and labor costs. But the biggest challenge may lie in tailoring the Starbucks experience to appeal to a variety of European tastes.

Michelle Gass, who last fall became the chief of Starbucks operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, recently took an anthropological tour to try to better understand the varying wants and needs of coffee lovers at the company’s European locales.

“In markets where there is an entrenched coffeehouse culture, like Paris or Vienna, I was expecting to hear more requests to be like them,” Gass said. “But I heard the opposite – people want the true Starbucks experience.”

Because that can mean different things to different Europeans, the company has devoted hundreds of hours to studying the variations. The British, for example, are quite happy to drink takeout coffee, so Starbucks is planning hundreds of drive-through locations in Britain.

The most visible innovations involve “concept” stores designed to make a Starbucks feel more like a trendy neighborhood shop. In Paris, the company recently gave a rustic facelift to the Starbucks near the Paris Opera. A vast store near the Louvre got a modern makeover, featuring a sleek, wood coffee bar.

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LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) – Plans by Starbucks to launch a rival coffee

machine to Nespresso may derail owner Nestle’s hopes for growth in the United States after the George Clooney-marketed system has proved a hit with espresso coffee lovers across Europe.

Starbucks’ news last week sent shares in Green Mountain Coffee Roaster tumbling as the seller of Keurig machines controls more than three-quarters of the U.S. single-cup coffee market. But analysts see Starbucks’ move as more likely to hit Nestle’s fastest-growing big brand.

Seattle-based Starbucks said it will beef up its presence in the rapidly-growing $8 billion single-serve coffee market with its new Verismo machine due out later this year in North America and selected international markets.

The single-portion coffee market, using refills known as cups, discs or pods, makes up around 8 percent of worldwide coffee sales, with half coming from ‘brewed’ coffee systems such as Keurig, Senseo, Tassimo, and Dolce Gusto, and the other half from espresso which is largely dominated by Nespresso.

Starbucks hopes to bridge this gap with its high-pressure coffee machine able to make both brewed and espresso coffee and heighten competition between the world’s biggest coffee houses, although it has given few details on pricing and availability.

‘The launch of Verismo by Starbucks is bad news for both of Nestle’s single serve coffee platforms, the Nespresso and Nescafe Dolce Gusto,’ said Liberum Capital analyst Pablo Zuanic.

He added the bulk of Nespresso’s growth in 2011 came from the United States as take-up in Western Europe has slowed, and he argues if Verismo halts the march of Nespresso then it could slice a fifth off Nestle’s overall annual profits growth.

The rapid rise of upmarket coffee makers is likely to have taken trade away from coffee chains such as Starbucks itself and Whitbread’s Costa chain, as they offer quality coffee at around a fifth of the price, analysts said.

‘These machines are the future of coffee, and Starbucks as an exciting young brand must see this as a massive opportunity,’ said Jonny Forsyth, senior drinks analyst at market research group Mintel.

Nespresso has made big inroads into western continental European markets with their espresso coffee shop cultures, but has found it more difficult in Britain and the United States due to its high price, Forsyth added.

The brand is very important to Nestle, accounting for over 4 percent of group sales and, with underlying sales growth of 20-40 percent a year, contributing some 10-15 percent of the group’s underlying sales growth. It boosts profit margins as well and so is a key focus for investors, analysts said. …

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I don’t know what readers know about coffee beans or more specifically how decaffienated coffee is produced. What is important to know is that the coffee exporters like Brazil, Colombia and Vietnam value the industry to the tune of $20 billion per year. The decaffienated coffee business is worth considerably less at $2 billion, but there’s something different you have to factor in. Decaf is not available in abundant supplies naturally, or at least it hasn’t been. Coffee is a very fickle plant and caffein-free producing plants are even more temperamental.

Therefor regular coffee beans are usually soaked in chemical for hours or days before they are roasted in order to render them free of their caffein. Researchers never accepted this method as it destroys the taste of the bean and have long endeavored to create a bean naturally free of caffein that could easily be transformed into an industry, but they have so far been relatively unsuccessful.

But there is new hope as of 2006, Paulo Mazzafera, a coffee researcher and biologist who has been experimenting with arabica varieties of coffee has had success with creating a plant strain which features 2% of the caffein levels of normal beans. He has trademarked the name, “Decaffito”. Mazzafera is currently working with investors to find a way to get the plant into commercial production.

This is great news for decaf coffee drinkers, especially if you are a fan of organic products and natural processes. Better taste, less processing, it has to be a good thing. I had no idea this was such a challenge. I thought true naturally decaffeinated coffee was already a reality on our grocery store shelves. Interesting!

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SEATTLE – The stock of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters fell Thursday after Starbucks said it will sell a different at-home coffee brewing system.

Two years ago, Starbucks ditched its relationship with Kraft, which also markets an at-home brewing machine, and last year partnered with Green Mountain.

Starbucks’ new machine, marketed with Germany-based Krueger and available this fall, makes both espresso drinks and brewed coffee. Green Mountain’s Keurig machines focus on brewed coffee, which requires lower pressure, although the Vermont company markets espresso-roasted coffee for the machines.

The cups used in Starbucks’ new Verismo machines will not fit in Green Mountain’s Keurig machines.

“The relationship with Green Mountain is as solid today as it was when we began,” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said on a conference call with analysts. “It is in both our interests for Starbucks and Green Mountain to cooperate in such a way that we continue to sell those K-cups in the same spirit we did when we began.”

Starbuck’s relationship with Green Mountain was shaky from the start.

Last year, Schultz said in a memo to executives that just having a patent did not ensure the Green Mountain’s continued primacy in the single-serve category. The memo came amid rumors that Starbucks hoped to buy Green Mountain.

One analyst suggested at the time that Starbucks may have been playing games by releasing the memo.

“We are amused at the public battles Starbucks finds the need to wage when it cannot get its way in private negotiations,” wrote Janney Capital Markets analyst Mitchell Pinheiro, who covered Green Mountain but not Starbucks.

Shortly afterward, Starbucks announced the deal to sell coffee and tea in Green Mountain’s Keurig machines…………….

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There is absolutely nothing more irritating than when something interferes with your morning cup of coffee. It can sour the start of your entire day when you take a swig of coffee and end up getting a mouth filled with coffee grounds instead.

What’s even more irritating is the moment you realize that the grounds are in the rest of the coffee too! So you’re faced with a dilemma. Either you wait for the pot to cool, dump it all out and start a fresh pot – which can be a huge problem if you’re on a tight schedule – or you end up having to skip a home brewed cup altogether.

There’s always the coffee at the office, but everyone knows that office coffee never tastes as good as what you can make at home. One way to stop the grounds from leaking into your coffee pot is to buy quality filters that are made to keep grounds where they belong – in the basket and not in your cup or carafe. You can keep grounds where they belong with the BUNN BCF100-B 100-Count Basket Filter.

These are filters made of tough fiber so they stand up to the job. They can take the water trickling across the fibers without bowing down to the water and without folding over like so many filters do.

They keep coffee grounds tasting fresh throughout the process and they don’t allow the grounds to run over the filter and escape into your coffee. And even better? These filters are good for the environment because they’re biodegradable.

These filters are created for the BUNN coffeemaker, but they’re also compatible with other coffeemakers. You should use them even if you have a coffeemaker that has a built in filtration basket.

The reason for this is because the built in filter baskets still allow coffee grounds to get past the basket and into the pot of coffee. The filters you get in the BUNN BCF100-B 100-Count Basket Filter put a stop to that. The design of these filters gives them an edge over other filters.

These filters can stand up to the onslaught of the fast drip coffee machines and allow only the pure taste of the coffee to get through. So if you’ve had problems in the past getting coffee grounds in your coffee or if your filters just don’t deliver that same pure taste (some filters can leave a paper taste), then you need to pick up a pack of these filters and start your day off right. You’ll quickly see what you’ve been missing.

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There’s no question that a new coffeemaker or espresso machine makes the best coffee. But slowly, something happens and that coffee starts to taste run of the mill or worse – it starts to taste bad. You might even begin noticing that your machine is running sluggishly.

If you could take your coffeemaker or espresso machine apart, you would see the icky reside that gets left behind after multiple uses. You may have even noticed that your carafe often gets a stain that has to be washed away. That’s a coffee and residue build up that you can see.

After awhile, your machine won’t just look disgusting on the inside from all of that residue that you can’t see, but it will start affecting the taste of your coffee, too. Plus, it’s just not safe to keep using your machine with that build up.

It’s not good for your health and it’s not good for the machine. Reside buildup can damage the machine and if you have an expensive coffeemaker, it can be a costly mistake that you’ll have to repair.

That’s why you want to get the Cleancaf Cleaner and Descaler for Home Coffee and Espresso Equipment. If you could see the buildup on the inside, you would notice a slime referred to as “scale.”

This scale builds up over time and affects the taste of your coffee and the ability of your machine to perform the task it was invented to do – make great tasting coffee or espresso. You might think that it would take a long time to build up scale but scale can actually build as quickly as within a few weeks.

That’s why it’s important that you use a descaler. If you’re a diehard coffee drinker and you have coffee every single day without fail, then you’re going to need to clean your machines more often.

But the Cleancaf Cleaner and Descaler for Home Coffee and Espresso Equipment gives you three convenient cleaning packets in one box, so you’ll have a packet for now and two more for future use.

The descaler is scent free and safe and won’t leave any kind of aftertaste behind once the cleaning is done. After you’ve followed the steps and used the Cleancaf Cleaner and Descaler for Home Coffee and Espresso Equipment, you’ll notice an improvement in the way your machine functions. It will drip the coffee out faster, keep it at the right temperature and the coffee will once again have that new machine coffee quality.

Excellent coffee maker tip:

Life sure would be simple if you could get up out of bed and take your time to leisurely drink your coffee and when you wanted a refill, just pour it from the pot into a coffee cup.

But life isn’t simple and like most people you probably have to hit the floor running first thing in the morning. On days like that, you certainly don’t want to forego your cup of coffee in the morning. You don’t have to leave it behind if you own the Copco 2510-9963 Acadia Reusable To-Go Mug.

You’ll find a lot of mugs out there, but few (if any) can compare to the features you’ll find with this to-go mug. This coffee mug is purposefully designed to handle life on the run and unlike the disposable cups you can get, this one is meant to last, which saves you money and helps keep the environment green.

The mug is made from really strong plastic and has a grip in the center for comfortable holding and stability. Because it’s so well constructed, you can take along either a steaming cup of coffee on your commute or you can grab an iced latte later in the day as a pick up and use the same container. The temperature of the drink doesn’t matter – it will be kept to perfection just the way you like it.

The Copco 2510-9963 Acadia Reusable To-Go Mug has a lid that keeps the liquid where it belongs – inside the cup – and keeps you from experiencing any slosh-overs as you drive.

It can hold up to two cups of coffee at a time and is so well constructed that it can go from reheating coffee in the microwave to getting washed with ease. And you don’t have to hand wash it either – its design is safe to go on the top rack of the dishwasher.

Because of its slender design, this mug can go into your vehicle’s cup holder and the design of this mug is so strong that it can last for years. It’s great for constant use and because it’s so affordable, you can get one for every coffee drinker in your house.

This one has a center grip that’s a plain brown design, but if you’re looking for something with a little color to it, Copco also has to-go mugs in a variety of colors. You can even match them so they’ll go along with the colors of your favorite football team or match your outfit for the day. The light blue grip center and the green one are especially eye-catching.

And just in case you are looking to purchase a grinder check out this great model