The first ever Peet’s coffee shop, in California (courtesy of Flickr):
The deal has been finalized: Peet’s Coffee will buy Diedrich Coffee for $212 Million. Thanks to this acquisition, Peet’s will now have a sizable share in the single cup-brewer market (Diedrich makes K-Cups for Keurig).
Diedrich is a coffee-roasting company primarily. Diedrich operates a small network [...]
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Peet’s to buy Diedrich Coffee for $212 Million
November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Coffee, Coffee News
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The Starbucks Via Taste Challenge
October 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Coffee, Retail
Starbucks is now selling their new Instant Coffee, called “Via,” in their regular stores. They are also marketing the new, more convenient coffee by doing “Taste Challenges” in each store.
What is the Taste Challenge? It is involves tasting unmarked samples of regular coffee alongside Via and then (the challenge) you have to guess which is [...]
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Starbucks iPhone Apps — Coffee-Inspired Technological Assimilation
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Coffee News
Thanks to a new iPhone app — Starbucks Card Mobile — is now easier than ever to give Starbucks your money. Using your hi-res iPhone screen you can store Starbucks card barcodes, which can then be scanned at a few stores on the west coast who are equipped for this new technology.
On a scale of [...]
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Guess What? We’re Pregnant!
September 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Coffee Accessories
We’re pregnant! This is our first.
The best thing we could think of to give my parents to mark the occasion was… a coffee mug, of course.
We found this customizable mug at Starbucks. The white pen that came with it did not work very well so we bought another artsy permanent pen to write the message. [...]
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Starbucks “Glen” Survivor Commercial (Doubleshot)
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Coffee, Videos
This is the funniest Starbucks Commercial I can recall ever seeing. I believe it aired during a Super Bowl a few years back.
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