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  „“I was always too small to buy directly from growers,” said Dean Cycon, owner of Dean’s Beans and member of Cooperative Coffees, who has helped start five other roasting businesses and intends to keep his business small. “I don’t want to be the Ben & Jerry’s of coffee.” Cooperative Coffees allows Cycon to stay committed to his personal business philosophy and still know whom he is buying from. “It’s all about eye-ball to eye-ball respect between people doing business.”“

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Global Exchange : What Price Virtue? At Some Retailers, 'Fair Trade' Carries A Very High Cost

  „The fair-trade minimum price, which hasn't changed since 1988, is $1.26. Dean Cycon, chief executive of Dean's Beans, a wholesale coffee roaster in Orange, Mass., says it generally costs farmers about 60 cents a pound to produce coffee.“

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Global Exchange : cctimes082699.html

  „The group argues that many small farmers are impoverished by selling their coffee below market price, and large bean growers are more likely to clear cut rain forests to grow coffee beans. The group then sells raw coffee beans to middlemen called roasters in the United States who toast the beans brown. The roasters sell the beans to retail shops.“

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Coffee Discussion about Espresso, Coffee Beans and Coffee Machines - Coffee Forum

  „Forum and News for people in the coffee industry and looking to get into it such as coffee shop owners, coffee bean growers, sales, conventions, shops, equipment, roasters, and everything coffee industry related.“

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Deans Beans

  „Where social activism, ecological responsibility and great coffee meet. All of us at Dean's Beans® are committed to an active expression of our beliefs in social justice and ecological responsibility.“

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Tea & Coffee 02/04 - World News

  „In 2003, the operation, then an experiment by the Federation, netted $708,000 in sales in its first year of operation. Growers who sell specialty beans to the Juan Valdez franchise receive a 45% premium. The stores are part of the Federation’s drive to conquer a larger profit share in today’s competitive global coffee market by selling the drink directly to consumers.“

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