Tea & Coffee 11/02 - Editor's Letter (#)

  „Roasters - defend yourselves! There are many excellent and altruistic programs in which big guys like Proctor & Gamble and Kraft General Foods participate. I’m sure you’ll be able to show the public that you do give back. Tea industry beware!“

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The crisis brewing in the coffee world. - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada

  „Under the title ìMugged: Poverty in your coffee cupî, Oxfam proposed that the main processing companies (Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Sara Lee, Nestle, Starbucks and Tchibo), which together buy over half the world's coffee produce, should pay higher prices for the bean.  Oxfam asked the biggest commercial enterprises to convert at least 2% of their total annual purchases into buying coffee grown in the ìfair tradeî way, and increase that percentage over the following years. The term fair trade was invented by the Fair Trade Labelling Organisation ó an international group seeking greater equity in world trade ó so that coffee workers can receive a dignified salary and sell their product to enterprises that authorise loans to farmers without access to credit, among other forms of aid. The most sensible thing for producer countries to do would be to coordinate the sale of coffee among them.“

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Virtual Coffee: Feature Articles

  „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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Fresh Cup Magazine

  „Proctor & Gamble (P&G), the world’s leading coffee seller under the familiar labels of Folgers and Millstone, recently decided to add fair-trade-certified coffee to its list of products. The announcement has received mixed reactions from smaller companies within the industry. Some are happy to see P&G step up to the coffee crisis plate; others feel that the proclamation is little and late, and possibly disingenuous with P&G resembling a child who traces the Mona Lisa and presents it as his or her own.“

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Tips on Coffee - The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

  „The book also examines the industry's major players -- General Foods, Nestl, Proctor & Gamble -- revealing how they have systematically reduced the quality of the bean and turned a much-loved product into a lifestyle. Finally, The Coffee Book considers the exploitation of labor and damage to the environment that mass cultivation causes, and explores the growing "conscious coffee" market and "fair trade" movement. Facts about the coffee industry: * Coffee is the second most valuable legal item of international trade in the world (after oil) * More than twenty million people around the world are employed by the coffee industry * Coffee is the largest food import to the United States“

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

  „One simply is to acquire a specialty roaster (Proctor & Gamble owns Millstone Coffee); another is to distribute a specialty roasters coffee (Kraft apparently distributes Starbucks supermarket line of coffees); a third is to offer whole beans in bags under ones own label (whole-bean coffees offered by Procter & Gamble/Folgers and Nestlé/Nescafé). In almost all cases whole-bean coffees distributed by these companies far exceeded in quality analogous roast-and-ground products. The only exception was the MJB canned roast-and-ground Hawaiian blend, which handily out-rated two whole-bean Kona blends, one from Nestlé (Nescafé Kona Blend, 85) and one from the Safeway supermarket chain (Safeway Select Kona Blend, 84, not reviewed).I was curious about how well coffees from the Proctor & Gamble Millstone bulk line would match up against Starbucks bagged supermarket whole-bean coffees. Based on an extremely limited comparison, it was something of a standoff.“

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