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Organic News Winter/Spring 1999 (#)

„According to Rice, who developed the marketing plan for Transfair U.S., "A significantly large portion of those surveyed were concerned about the plight of coffee producers, and if given the option, would buy small farmer coffee over other brands." Cost was rated last in importance behind taste, convenience, and means of production. It's important to note that fair trade coffee does not cost more than current, gourmet-quality coffee. The importers are able to pay more money to the farmers by reducing the number of steps between the farmer and the consumer, not by charging the consumer more. If things work out as planned, large scale coffee trade will be changing in the near future, and consumers will be given the opportunity to choose between fair trade-grown coffee and traditionally grown coffee.“

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Coffee Association of Canada (#)

„According to the National Coffee Association, the number of consumers who say they drink coffee regularly or occasionally has risen this month to 167.1m -- or 80 per cent of Americans -- from 166.6m in March 2003 and 161.2m the year before. Consumption of gourmet coffee, however, shows a stronger growth, rising from 9 per cent of the total US population in 1999 to 12 percent in 2003 and 16 per cent this month. But the NPD Group, a market research company, says that in 2003 the average American drank just 112.4 cups of coffee at home, down from 125.4 in 1999.“

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Tips on Coffee - Gourmet Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Drinks: Creating Your Favorite Recipes at Home (#)

„Hot or cold as a morning beverage, afternoon cocktail or evening dessert, these gourmet flavors are within easy reach right at home with this charmingly illustrated and informative volume. Book DescriptionYour favorite coffee or tea shop will miraculously appear in your own kitchen with these wonderful recipes for gourmet coffee, tea, and chocolate drinks. This collection boasting over 150,000 copies sold in all editions, presents over 300 captivating taste treats, including Cinnamon-Vanilla Coffee, Cappuccino Royale, Rum Cider Tea, and Strawberry-Amaretto Chocolate Shake. Hot or cold as a morning beverage, afternoon cocktail or evening dessert, these gourmet flavors are within easy reach right at home with this charmingly illustrated and informative volume.“

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Coffee Consumption in the United States of America (#)

„The National Coffee Association found in 2000 that 54% of the adult population of the United States drinks coffee daily (NCA Coffee Drinking Trends Survey, 2000). They also reported that 18.12% of the coffee drinkers in the United States drink gourmet coffee beverages daily (NCA). In addition to the 54% who drink coffee everyday, 25% of Americans drink coffee occasionally (NCA).“

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Global Exchange : THE UNLOVING CUP (#)

„The exploits of the Colombian cartels, the Tijuana Boys, and other notorious Latin narco lords are the stuff of legend - but, in sheer numbers, the world's most successful drug dealer may be none other than the infamous Starbucks gourmet coffee empire, selling over-the-counter caffeine to a billion addicts each year, yielding $2.5 billion in net earnings in 2001. At last count, the Seattle-based chain had 4,247 outlets in North America, 4,246 of them in the United States and Canada, and one flagship store in Mexico, which, in accordance with the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), is now included in that geographical configuration.“

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Coffee Links - Espresso Coffee Beans and Makers (#)

„We carry all the national brands of coffee from singles serving to 1-pot packages to 5-lb sizes. Coffees we carry: Included, our very own specialty blended in 1-pot packages "Sunbelt" gourmet coffee in Regular or Decaffeinated. Our coffee is blended on a weekly bases and we guarantee that it will not be more than 30 days old from the time it leaves the roasting plant to your lips. Our coffee "Sunbelt" is specialty blended, high yield coffee roasted just for our customers and you can not buy it in any store in the world.“

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CoffeeGeek - Setting the Scene for Coffee in Asia (#)

„When I first got in contact with Mark about doing something for Coffeegeek he was immediately enthusiastic about getting a more global perspective about the gourmet coffee market. Most people probably think that outside the US and Europe, the closest Asia has come to coffee is that we produce some fine coffee in Sumatra and India and we produce some lower grade coffee from Vietnam primarily used as fillers by the large companies. And of course we have the eccentric Japanese that buy up almost the entire stock of Jamaican Blue Mountain.“

http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/coffeeasia/ 11-15-2003 - Cached

CRS Fair Trade (#)

„In 2003, we drank more than $323 million of Colombian coffee. But while we are paying as much as $12 or more for a bag of conventionally traded Colombian coffee in gourmet coffee shops here in the United States, coffee exporters in Colombia are getting as little as 49 cents per pound—and the farmers who grew the coffee are only getting a fraction of that amount. That means that when we pay $1.50 for a cup of conventionally traded Colombian coffee the farmer who grew it gets less than 1¢!“

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CoffeeGeek - Surf City Coffee Ships Another 100 Pounds to Iraq (#)

„Surf City Coffee Company was founded in 1993 to provide gourmet coffee in the Santa Cruz region of Central California. The company has grown and now distributes more than 40 different varieties of premium gourmet coffee throughout the United States. Surf City Coffee Company hand roasts all of its coffees and makes them available through grocery retailers, coffee houses, fine restaurants as well as online. www.surfcitycoffee.com “

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International Finance Corporation - Search Press Releases (English) (#)

„IFC has approved a loan of Euro 380,000 ($413,000) to SociÃ©tÃ© Agro-Industrielle et Commerciale du Cameroun (SAICAM), a gourmet coffee processor in Cameroon. The project will expand processing facilities in order to improve quality and expand coffee production from 120 to 600 tons per annum within six years. The plant is located in Bafoussam, Western Cameroon, the main coffee producing region of the country, which has a total annual production of over 20,000 tons of arabica and robusta coffee.“

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India coffee - Indian Coffee, monthly magazine - Cover story, The US coffee Market, Dr.S.Radhakrishnan April 2003, (#)

„Specialty coffee culture took roots from there. As a result of the spread of specialty coffee chains, the essence of gourmet coffee in US soon become synonymous with the dark roast style. During 80s flavoured coffee caught the imagination of consumers and helped to capture large proportion of non-coffee drinkers. This period also saw the development and introduction of new packaging formats with one-way valve, which guaranteed freshness aroma to consumers.“

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index (#)

„We are a wired nation. Americans drink some 431 million cups of coffee a day and the 29 million coffee drinkers who quaff gourmet coffee each day account for the fastest growing segment of the coffee market. They are also, perhaps unknowingly, creating new economic opportunities for peasant coffee growers around the world.“

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Timeforcoffee.com (#)

„From the region of Antigua in Guatemala, Central America. We produce the finest gourmet Guatemalan coffee. The beans are grown, roasted and packed in Guatemala. In the past two years, our tests of beans from higher altitude areas in Guatemala have yielded an exceptional flavor.“

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PR Coffee Crisis (#)

„CANTON, MA—March 7, 2002—Equal Exchange, the nation’s leader in fairly traded gourmet coffee, announced today record payments of $960,000 in above-market fair trade premiums to small farmer cooperatives in 2001. With coffee growing communities in many developing nations continuing to struggle with record low market prices and deepening poverty, a growing number of small farmers are benefiting from their trade partnership with Equal Exchange.“

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Who are the CoffeeCrew? - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„Before to long, the popularity grew beyond the capabilities of the small computer it was running on and was moved to a permanent ISP downtown where it remains to this very day. Interest in gourmet coffee has grown and grown and so did this little website. Once it was 5 pages of local cafe reviews and recipes with the odd tutorial thrown in for good measure. We are now one of Canada's most active resources for the coffee enthusiast.“

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Bonjour Products About Us (#)

„BonJour introduced its first French Press Coffee Maker in 1995 and has since become the French Press Coffee Maker specialist for the best gourmet, department and home store retailers. With the launch of the Cuisine Category, BonJour has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the most innovative companies in the housewares industry.“

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Publications - National Coffee Association (#)

„It is the definitive guide for those starting a retail coffee business and a great manual for existing coffee businesses. Bean Business Basics was written by the professionals who have consulted and trained thousands of gourmet coffee bar employees across the country and around the world. Buying this book is like purchasing tens of thousands of dollars of consulting services.“

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Virtual Coffee - The Hottest Online Coffee Zine! (#)

„Bruce Milletto: Bruce is co-founder and president of Bellissimo and founder of ABC's. He has owned three successful retail gourmet coffee operations, and hasassisted hundreds of clients in creating new coffee start-ups worldwide since1993. He is the 1999 recipient of the Specialty Coffee Association of America'sDistinguished Author Award.“

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Amazon.com: Books: Christmas Cookies Are for Giving: Recipes, Stories and Tips for Making Heartwarming Gifts (#)

„This recipe also shows you how to make vanilla sugar. There are recipes for everyone from the gourmet coffee connoisseur to art lovers. Children will love the "Cathedral Windows" and "Butterball Santas." Coffee lovers will enjoy the "Walnut Cappuccino" or "Cherry" Biscotti. "Cranberry Spice Bread" is perfect for shipping to friends and family.“

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India coffee - News - FDI hint brings global retail giants to India gate (#)

„The world's largest gourmet coffee chain could have set up shop in India through the licensing route, as Marks and Spencer, Pizza Hut and Costa Coffee have done. But it preferred to wait for the government to open up the sector to foreign investment, sources said. This is largely due to its international policy of entering new markets through joint ventures.“

http://www.indiacoffee.org/news/2004/11/ nov27.html - Cached

CRS Fair Trade (#)

„Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 to create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and Fair Trade relationships and cooperative principles. As a worker-owned co-op, we have accomplished this by offering consumers fairly traded gourmet coffee direct from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia.“

http://www.crsfairtrade.org/coffee_project/ map.htm - Cached

Amazon.com: Books: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (#)

„It is amazing to me how much longer it took Americans to realize the potential for much better tasting coffee. It does give hope to all entrepreneurs, because this seems so obvious to us post-Starbucks, but it is only very recently that gourmet coffee companies figured out that we might want something with flavor.“

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Coffee @ nationalgeographic.com (#)

„They simply poured loose coffee, crudely milled, into water, sometimes added eggshells to settle the grounds, and boiled the whole mess to the blackness of a bat cave. Not gourmet, perhaps, but it warmed and fortified many a frontiersman, and such coffee still satisfies some cookout chefs.“

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View topic - Mobile Gourmet Coffee Truck - Coffee Forum (#)

„My father and I are considering starting a small business that basically tries to take the concept of the gourmet coffee house mobile. Gourmet coffee and tea, thats it. little league games, festivals...in essence wherever there is a great deal of foot traffic.“

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Coffee Consumption Research - National Coffee Association (#)

„It also provides operation-critical information about the shifting consumption habits—which have never been more in flux as they are right now. And, the NDCT has become as indispensable to the gourmet coffee sector as it has long been for the traditional coffee market.“

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Everyday Gourmet Roastery Toronto (2-parts) - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„Everyday Gourmet Coffee opened in the St. Lawrence Market in 1979, specializing in coffee, tea and spices. In 1997, coffee roasting came to Everyday Gourmet with the addition of a Toper drum roaster from Turkey.“

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Global Exchange : Background (#)

„The untold story of the gourmet coffee boom: it's leaving small farmers behind. Prices are currently at 8-year lows, falling under $.50 per pound in August 2001 -- yet retail prices stay high, meaning mass industry profits. Fair Trade brings small farmers into the boom.“

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The Home Roasting Tradition (#)

„Now the proliferation of coffeehouses has reached suchextremes that there are neighborhoods that have imposed a 2 year ban: NoNew Cafes! And not all of the 1980s "gourmet" coffee craze helpedto improve the brown drink we hold so dear.“

http://www.sweetmarias.com/tradition.html - Cached

Presenting.. the Crew.. - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„The Coffeecrew, created in 1994, is available for radio, TV and newspaper interviews. Looking for some people to talk about the gourmet coffee revolution? Look no further. We are available on very short notice for your project.“

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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News (#)

„Also, Fair Trade coffee is more than a way to help impoverished growers, Rice said. It's a model that ensures high-quality coffee is available for the growing gourmet coffee market.“

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El Salvador- Coffee and Biodiversity (#)

„Indeed, producers obtained an overprice of up to US$13.00 for 46 quintales [4,600 kg] of coffee and were able to enter the Japanese coffee gourmet market, while expectations of accessing the U.S market are encouraging.“

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Coffee Association of Canada (#)

„79% of coffee consumed at home is purchased at a grocery store/supermarket, with 7% being purchased at a gourmet/specialty coffee shop.“

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Mr. Coffee® - Coffee House at Home (#)

„You don't have to stop at the corner shop to get gourmet coffee. Mr. Coffee® products can help you kick back, relax and create the coffee house cuppa' joe in your own home.“

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„Most coffee can be classified as organic because smallholders rarely use chemical fertilisers and controls. Moreover, a number of Arabica growths can be categorised as speciality or gourmet coffees.“

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Coffee friends at Koffee Korner (#)

„Casstrattis's Gourmet coffee - site for coffee zealots. Features coffee recipes, history, tips, trivia and general discussion - http://www.casstrattis.com/links.html “

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Global Exchange : Drought pushes Ethiopia coffee farmers into poverty (#)

„"Our campaign will have to target the coffee consumers in the Western world. While they pay a high price for the speciality or gourmet coffee, those who produce it are trapped in poverty," he said.“

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Bulk Coffees (#)

„Tanzanian AA, Full City Roast — Full-bodied and flavorful with a winy acidity and a fruity aftertaste. Fairly traded gourmet coffee from the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union . (Also available in 12oz. pkgs.“

http://www.equalexchange.com/products/bulk.html - Cached

Packaged Coffees (#)

„Tanzanian Jubilee — Full-bodied and flavorful with a winy acidity and a fruity aftertaste. Fairly traded gourmet coffee from the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union . (Drip grind only. Also available in 5 lb.“

http://www.equalexchange.com/products/ packaged.html - Cached

Coffee Consumption Trends Summary - National Coffee Association (#)

„Consumption Of Coffee And Gourmet Coffee Beverages In The United States 1950 -2003 Cups Per Person Per Day and % of Population With 3-Year Moving Average“

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BSCA - Web Links (#)