Starbucks aims to increase mass-market reach

Starbucks aims to increase mass-market reach

MSNBC - For years, Starbucks Corp. has been working to make itself your favorite stop for a cup of coffee. Increasingly, it also wants to be the only brand that comes to mind when you think about coffee, period. The Seattle-based coffee retailer is ...



Libel conviction in coffee dispute

Santa Rosa Press Democrat - A worker at a gourmet coffee company is guilty of libel for hijacking a rival roasters Web site and linking it to pages displaying pornography and foul language, a jury has found. Tim Dominick, roasting director of Sacred Grounds in Arcata, was ...



Coffee shop tells patrons: Pay what you wish

Philadelphia Inquirer - KIRKLAND, Wash. - With its blood-red walls and black leather sofas, Kirklands Terra Bite Lounge looks like any other coffee shop - until you get to the menu. There are no prices listed. Terra Bite doesnt have them. Customers pay what and when they ...



Race enters nanny hunt

Detroit News - Last month, Jennifer Freeman sat in a Chicago coffee bar, counting her blessings and considering her problem. She had a husband with an MBA, two children and a job offer that would let her dig out the education degree she stashed away during years of ...



Business News

Chaska Herald - We may be losing moose, but Minnesota is still No. 1 in elk production. The neons lit and the coffees on at the newly opened Caribou Coffee. Caribou Coffee, at Chaska Gateway on the northeast corner of Highway 212 and Audubon Road, opened Monday



Coffee growers warned not to raise production

China Post - Coffee-growing nations risk killing a nascent price recovery should they boost production to take advantage of a fall in Brazilian output, a top industry executive has warned. Brazil expects production to fall by eight to 10 million bags from last ...