Recently, both Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. (producer of K-Cups) and Mars Drinks, Inc. (producer of Alterra Coffees and Bright Teas for the Flavia Beverage System) have announced general price increases. Click here to read Keurig's price increase announcement.Click here to read Mars Drinks' price increase announcement.In response, we will implement the following pricing action:Keurig Green
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Coffee Price Increase Notice
Beginning today, each invoice contains a notice of an upcoming coffee price increase to our customers, effective August 11th, 2014. Download the complete price increase memo.Due to drought in Brazil and "coffee rust" affecting crops throughout Central America, rising coffee prices have been in the news throughout the first half of 2014. Major retailers such
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Your K-Cup Office Coffee Options
When people think about K-Cups, they think about ease of use, and about variety. The wide range of brands, flavors, and blends used to be uniformly priced, but Green Mountain has recently moved towards increasing differentiation in its coffee and tea pricing. In this blog post we outline the various price tiers so you can manage
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Katie Couric And CBS Evening News On Coffee [VIDEO]
Bill Whitaker explained soaring coffee prices on last night's CBS Evening News with Katie Couric [VIDEO]: Price of coffee heats up All coffee beans are up in price -- way up, actually -- across the board. In 2000, popular Colombian mild cost $1.03 per pound. Over the next 10 years the price rose more than
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Why Are Coffee Prices Going Up And Up?
Every time we think that the market price for raw coffee beans has peaked, it soars even higher. Prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange crossed the $3 per pound mark Wednesday, before settling slightly lower. In the past 12 months, the cost of unroasted coffee beans is up over 125% -- meaning it has
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What Happened To Kona Coffee?
As we previously wrote last week, Green Mountain has discontinued production of its Kona coffees. At CDC, we have just sold out of our last remaining supply of Green Mountain Kona Blend K-Cups. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400.0"] GMCR Kona Blend K-Cup[/caption] While coffee prices in general have been skyrocketing -- up over 100% year-to-date --
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Java Prices Jump [VIDEO]
Here's a quick piece from NBC examining the recent surge in coffee prices, which is affecting retailers.
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New York Times On The Colombian Coffee Shortage
New York Times page B1, 3/10/11: Heat Damages Colombia Coffee, Raising PricesThe shortage of high-end Arabica coffee beans is also being felt in New York supermarkets and Paris cafes, as customers blink at escalating prices. Purveyors fear that the Arabica coffee supply from Colombia may never rebound — that the world might, in effect, hit
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Coffee Market Now Up Over 100% YTD
Raw arabica coffee bean prices have now more than doubled in the past twelve months.When we posted a blog item on the coffee market back in October, coffee prices were up 44.2% year-to-date. In November, we reported that the market was up 58.4%. In January, coffee prices seemed to be peaking, up 67.6%. But now
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Commodities, Including Coffee, Remain High
Here's another look at coffee prices, which seem to be going nowhere but up lately. As shown in the below chart, raw coffee prices are up by over 67% in the past 12 months, with much of the increase coming in the last 6 months or so. If the market doesn't turn soon, we can
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