Tuesday, April 10, 2007

New Marketing Opportunities for the Tea Industry


New Marketing Opportunities for the Tea Industry

As I travel around the world consulting with coffee retailers, several trends keep coming up: more teas and more exotic choices are on the menu, specialty sources are becoming the norm instead of the exception, and most importantly, the pseudo-adversarial position is now the start of a beautiful friendship of cooperation between the tea and coffee vendors.



Caribou Coffee same-store sales fall

Boston Globe - MINNEAPOLIS -- Coffeehouse chain operator Caribou Coffee Company Inc., said Monday preliminary results show first-quarter same-store sales fell 1 percent from the prior year, due in part to winter storms. Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at ...



Fundamentals of Coffee Business Success

The retail specialty coffee industry is unique in that it attracts as many admirers of the product (coffee fanatics) as it does those who are looking for a lucrative business investment, probably more.



Coffee on the Weekend

Coffee as you driving out to the mall on the weekend



Gold futures slip on profit-taking silver up, cocoa, coffee, corn ...

MSN UK News - Gold futures slipped on profit-taking Monday, hurt by a late-day slide in crude oil prices, as well as the dollars strength, as trading resumed after a three-day holiday weekend. June gold fell $2.50 to finish at $676.90 a troy ounce on the New York ...