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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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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.“
http://www.coffeecrew.com/articles/.../ the-crisis-brewing-in-the-coffee-world..html
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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!“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/1102/editor.htm
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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.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 442.html
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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.“
http://www.coffeereview.com/article.cfm?id=52
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