The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„(Sara Lee Coffee & Tea) have chosen to fragment their brands to appeal to, on one hand, traditionalists who still crave a bright, mildly acidy American cup (Folgers Gourmet Supreme and Hills Bros. Coffee), those who crave a light bodied, innocuous, sweetish cup (Hills Bros. Mild Roast), and the apparently palate-dead masses who are willing to put up with anything, including a cup so dominated by cheap robusta coffees that it literally tastes more like an infusion of mildewed grain or nuts than coffee (Folgers Classic Roast).Both Lavazza and Illy Caffe enter the market for the more upscale segment of the American drip-coffee market in character. Lavazza offers a rather heavy, neutral coffee that probably relies on the better quality robustas (Lavazza Premium Drip), while Illy Caffe, the great European champion of pure Arabicas, offers a drip coffee that, like the famous Illy espresso, is so exquisitely refined that it barely whispers to the palate.“

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Global Exchange : Global Issues Flow Into America's Coffee (#)

„An estimated 25 million of these farmers have suffered because raw coffee prices have fallen below the cost of production. Students in California have helped to pressure the Sara Lee Corporation, the maker of the Hills Bros. and Chock Full O' Nuts brands, to start buying small amounts of Fair Trade coffee. On Tuesday, voters in Berkeley, Calif., a longtime redoubt of student activism, will vote on a measure that would require the city's restaurants and supermarket cafes to restrict sales of brewed coffee to blends that are Fair Trade, organic or shade grown, which are considered more environmentally friendly than conventional, mass-produced varieties.“

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Wierd News (#)

„1997 -- Latest Highway Truck Spills: Several hundred thousand apples near Brighton, Mich.,in November; a tractor-trailer full of Hills Bros. ground coffee in downtownLouisville in December; a truck hauling spaghetti sauce and ranch dressing (colliding witha truckful of computers) on I-35 in Austin, Texas, in January; and during a November icestorm, a tractor-trailer full of nuclear weapons near Brownlee, Neb. (an accident keptsecret for a month by the federal government).“

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Tea & Coffee 11/01 - Trade News (#)

„Sara Lee is the third largest retail coffee roaster in the U.S., the second-largest retail and foodservice coffee roaster in Europe, the largest foodservice coffee roaster in the U.S. and the largest coffee roaster in Brazil. Its brands include Chock full o'Nuts, Hills Bros., and MJB in the United States; Douwe Egberts, Maison du Cafe and Marcilla in Europe; and, Uniao, Caboclo and Cafe do Ponto in Brazil.“

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New Page 1 (#)

„Special thanks to Susan O. Henry, SusanHenry@aol.com, for her gracious permission toreprint the article.  She drinks Hills Bros 50% all day and works, jogs, andworkout-walks around the family farm near Salem, Oregon. Her article is at http://www.fitnesslink.com/food/research.htm#caff . “

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Tea & Coffee 01/00 - Trade News (#)

„Nestle SA sold its Hills Bros., MJB and Chase & Sanborn coffee brands as well as a coffee grinding plant to Sara Lee Corp. in December. Nestle will focus instead on building up sales of Nescafe, including a premium line introduced on the U.S. West Coast in September.“

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CoffeeGeek - Coffee: General Discussion, New poll...for those of us with "significant others who..." (#)

„ The others drink the cheap stuff.... Mom & Dad used to drink Hills Bros., using about 2-3 scoops for 10 cups.  It looked like a light rust in the cup.  I had a "somewhat" different taste for coffee (using whole beans in Cal.)...“

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Tea & Coffee 05/03 - People News (#)

„Since 1976, Cortellini has developed vast experience in all areas of the coffee business having held numerous positions inside Hills Bros., Nestle, Chock Full o’Nuts and First Colony Coffee & Tea Company. He is dedicated to building on the success of the company.“

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