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„"Farmers sell at a heavy loss while branded coffee sells at a hefty profit. The coffee crisis has become a development disaster." It says the big four coffee roasters, Nestlé, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, and Sara Lee—which with German giant Tchibo buy almost half the world's coffee beans each year—are making big profits on coffee brands, each worth US$1 billion or more in annual sales. It estimates Nestlé's instant-coffee profit margin at 26 percent and Sara Lee's at 17 percent—high in the food and drink field.“
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„That's 30 percent higher than 2004. The futures are benchmarks for coffee sold by Procter & Gamble Co.'s Folgers and Kraft Foods Inc.'s Maxwell House brands.“
http://www.aboutcoffee.net/2005/01/ look-for-price-of-coffee-to-perk-up.html
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„They are the generic, roasted and ground coffees offered primarily by the three major coffee companies (Phillip Morris/Kraft, Proctor & Gamble and Nestlé). Commercial coffees usually blend beans of both arabica and robusta types. Even if the beans come from only one producing country, the sources or growing attributes of the blended coffees are difficult to trace or identify.“
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„TransfairUSA began its efforts in late 1998 by producing a video about coffee farmers, Santiago's Story, then launching a Bay Area campaign to convince coffee roasters of the benefits of Fair Trade for their businesses. They have branched out nationally and to date there are over 50 roasters and coffee importers that have voluntarily agreed to abide by Fair Trade criteria and submit to monitoring by TransFairUSA.“
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