Archive for February, 2010

If i buy coffee beans does that mean that I have to grind them myself?

I bought some dunkin donuts coffee beans and got my first coffee maker. It says to put in 1 tablespoon of ground coffee for every cup, but i have coffee beans. does this mean i have to grind them up myself? If i buy coffee beans does that mean that I have to grind them [...]

Specialty Coffee Association of America: A truly moving member …

“Good Morning Mansi or evening if you read this now, Being a member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America for twenty two years, since 1988, has been one of the greatest joys and business blessings of my life. I owe much of my long term success to the many S.C.a.a. conventions and meetings I [...]

Folgers boosts J.M. Smucker 3rd-quarter profit

(02-24) 11:27 PST Portland, Ore. (AP) – J.M. Smucker Co.’s third-quarter got a jolt from its Folgers coffee business, which helped the food maker nearly double its profit on strong sales. Smucker has been successful with its a recession-friendly lineup of food staples such as Jif peanut butter, Pillsbury frosting and its namesake jellies and [...]

Can Disposable Single-Cup Coffee be Sustainable? Green Mount

July 6th, 2009 – Green Mountain Coffee made the popular Keurig Single-Cup brewing system, in which a bit of coffee is sealed in plastic and can be popped cleanly into a single-serve coffee maker. Does it make sense to put fair-trade coffee in a disposable petroleum-based package? Of the coffee shipped around the world by [...]

Bridges to Burn

From the Artist Recommended If You Like: HELMET, UNSANE, MELVINS, DYSTOPIA, PISSED JEANS, EYEHATEGOD, KYLESA, JESUS LIZARD Seminal sludge-rockers 16 drop a dozen new hits of misanthropy and spite on their new album Bridges to Burn. Their best album to date – including their legendary underground classic Drop Out – Bridges to Burn spills over [...]

Good To The Last Tweet: Coffee Machine Drips Updates To Twitter

Just when you think you’ve seen it all … I’m here at the Next09 conference in Hamburg, a two-day conference about the future of the web and media that kicked off today with an afternoon of keynote presentations by Jeff Jarvis, Andrew keen, Umair Haque and more. there was one booth out in the hallway [...]

Movers roundup: Culp, Century Aluminum

NEW YORK (AP) – Shares of Culp Inc. sank after an analyst downgraded the fabric maker, saying its stock is overvalued. NEW YORK (AP) – Shares of Century Aluminum Co. plunged, a day after the company reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter results. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. rose in trading after [...]

Carbs in Keurig coffee's? – Low Carb Friends

From the Green Mountain website: Coffee and NutritionNutritionally speaking, brewed coffee is pretty much inert. Coffee has virtually no calories or fats, no carbohydrates, no sodium, no cholesterol… if it were required to carry a nutritional product label, that label would consist mostly of a lot of zeros. (In fact, coffee is exempt from federal [...]

NEC, Nippon Yusen, Seven & I, Toyota: Japan Equity Preview

February 25, 2010, 7:07 PM EST (Adds items on Aplus, Canon, Daiichi Sankyo, Idemitsu, Nippon Yusen, Sanyo, seven & I and Toyota) Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — The following companies may have unusual price changes in Japanese trading today. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of the previous close. The information in [...]

Startup uses ATM machine to recycle cellphones

SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) – mark Bowles said the idea behind ecoATM was born at a coffee shop. Small Business At a Starbucks in Del Mar, California, located north of San Diego, Bowles would routinely meet with Michael Librizzi and Pieter van Rooyen to hatch out their next brainchild. The three multi-year veterans of [...]