If you have purchased a Kitchen Gourmet or Signature Gourmet coffee maker within the last few years (especially from Walgreens), you should probably unplug it for now and visit their web site to see if it’s one of the models that has recently been recalled. Apparently they are recalling about 500,000 of these programmable coffee [...]
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Kitchen/Signature Gourmet Coffee Makers Pose a Fire Hazard
April 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee News
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Ready to Drink Coffee: Illy and Coke versus Starbucks and Pepsi
April 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee News
Starbucks and Pepsi have already worked together to bring us a “luxury, ready to drink” coffee — the canned iced coffee. Well, now it’s Illy’s (and Coca Cola’s) turn. Like most industries, when you the yearly sales of ready-to-drink coffees adds up to a few billion dollars’ worth worldwide. Thus, Illy would like a piece [...]
Krispy Kreme Sells Coffee for a Nickel
April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Coffee News
According to this post by Melissa Allison (of the Seattle Times) Krispy Kremes in the Pacific north-west have slashed the prices of their regular coffee down to almost nothing. A small 12 ounce is now a nickel, a medium 16 ounce is now a dime and a large 20-ouncer is a dime plus a nickel. [...]
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Ethiopians Take Coffee Exporting into Their Own Hands
April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee News, Ethiopia
According to this article from Bloomberg.com, Ethiopia has assumed control over its own coffee trading interests. Those whom the country depends on to distribute Ethiopian coffee beans have been, according to government officials, hoarding this vital commodity with the expectation that the world-market price will increase again sometime soon. While this might make sense for [...]
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Dunkin’ Donuts and Homes for Our Troops
April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee News, Coffee With a Cause
Dunkin’ Donuts has announced April 21 as “Iced Coffee Day,” a one-day event when stores throughout the country will sell small iced coffees for the reduced price of 50 cents. Five cents from each cup sold will go to Homes for Our Troops, a national, non-profit organization that builds specially adapted homes for severely injured [...]
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