Giro Pack Inc. showed off mesh bags with new fashion film wraps at the Northwest Hort Expo, Kennewick. The window bag, for example, has a wrap cutout providing more visibility to the fruit inside, said Cari Wickersham of Giro Pack. The Girsac can be custom wrapped, such as one ordered by Borton Fr ...

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Toronto-based Club Coffee LP is launching a lawsuit against Keurig Green Mountain Inc., alleging the U.S. giant uses anti-competitive tactics and misleads retailers and consumers to maintain its grip on the fast-growing single-serve coffee market. Club Coffee says in a $600-million lawsuit ...

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A former Teesside chemical engineer has launched a business that is helping farmers he befriended in the Sumatran jungle. Emily Flanagan reports DAVID Beattie had been working as a Teesside chemical engineer when he decided to take a train from the Middlesbrough and travel around the world on the ...

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Cambridge Consultants has come up with a barista-type experience for beer drinkers, with the barman being able to adjust the ‘hoppiness’ level of each pint on demand. Hoppier may open up the possibility of introducing new flavours into beer. Recent years have seen a rise in the number o ...

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Coffee is one of Sabah’s main commodities and has become synonymous to Tenom as it produces the most famous coffee brand among the locals, Kopi Tenom. Rural Development Minister Datuk Radin Malleh said Tenom has 1,197 hectares of land cultivated with coffee, about half of the total land in th ...

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Frustrated coffee drinkers who have “hacked” their way around pod roadblocks built into the new Keurig brewers may just be looking for a hurdle to overcome, says the president of Keurig Canada Inc. “There are some, when you give them a challenge, they’ll really get at it,R ...

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While Brits are known for drinking tea, a new survey released Tuesday shows that Austrians just love their coffee. 92 percent of Austrians are coffee drinkers, with three-quarters having one or more cups every day. This revelation comes from an online survey by market researcher MindTake Research w ...

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Well, there’s a first time for everything. In my many years as a blogger, the last four on sites that advertise, I have never commented on one of the ads on my page. It was tempting in my former blog platform, because the ads were atrocious. I wanted to write something like: “I deplore this ad and ...

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Does coffee really make you more productive at work Did that triple, venti, soy, no foam latte, you drank on the way in really help you get through all those emails this morning ? I don’t know about you, but I can’t get past 11am without a long black coffee! Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO ...

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Pure Roast Coffee, Northern Ireland’s multi-award winning coffee company, has set up an operation in Britain to grow its pod and capsule business in the country’s dynamic foodservice sector. Based at Lisburn in county Antrim, Pure Roast Coffee gained a record haul of 14 gold stars for 1 ...

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Club Coffee LP has filed a Competition Bureau complaint against coffee giant Keurig Green Mountain Inc. over alleged anticompetitive practices that it says drive up prices and limit consumer choices. Toronto-based Club Coffee says five other companies – including rival coffee roasters – have joined ...

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Depending on if you dig drip, French press, cold brew, or prefer to single-pod it up, your method of coffee making has a measurable impact on flavor and quality. Whether you choose to whip up pots of fresh drip, drop the plunger on a hot French press, or would rather brew one K-cup at a time, your p ...

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