The Ethical Coffee Company (ECC) has launched a campaign in Geneva vowing to overtake Nespresso in Swiss coffee capsule sales in three years. The company’s president Jean-Paul Gaillard made the bold claim on Monday, while promoting his brand from a streetcar plastered with ECC advertising. Ethical ...

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A new hot beverage pod from Keurig, the K-Mug, joins two other pod formats for the Keurig 2.0 brewing system that are now available in recyclable polypropylene. Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. has launched the new Keurig K-Mug pod, designed to brew a large, travel-mug size of hot beverage using the Keu ...

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Jamie Knights goes after the beans and takes in the caffeine, with the top trends, news and products in the region’s coffee sector Products Filter coffee Bravilor Bonamat has launched the Thermal Brewers Aurora. The machines have been developed as a front-of-house solution, making design one of its ...

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If you’re a non-US reader then hearing aboutKeurig might be new. Just as if you’re a US reader, hearing about Nespresso might be new-ish. Even so, what looks like the shaping up of a battle royal in the ‘home-prepared but brain dead easy gourmet coffee’ market category tells us plenty about the ‘as ...

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If you’re lucky enough to own a Keurig, then you are probably fully aware of its time- and money-saving abilities. To sweeten the deal, our friends at All You have come up with even more ways you can save some dough when it comes to buying K-cups. I sit approximately three feet from the offic ...

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Lavazza, the Italian coffee giant, this week unveiled a new 100pc compostable coffee capsule made from thistles. The patented pod is the first of its kind to be wholly biodegradable; the result of five years of strategic, top-secret research that the company pursued jointly with Italian biopolyme ...

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Feb 26 (Reuters) – Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc said its Dunkin’ K-Cup packs would now be available online and across retail stores in North America through an expanded agreement with J.M. Smucker Co and Keurig Green Mountain Inc . Dunkin’ K-Cup packs are currently available only ...

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Name: John Sylvan. Age: About 57. Appearance: About 57. Who the hell is he? The guy who invented American coffee pods. Only American ones? Yes. The US mostly uses K-Cups, produced by Keurig Green Mountain, which grew out of the company that was founded on Sylvan’s invention in 1990. Snooty Europeans ...

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Canadians are ordering coffee less, but still turning up at the local coffee shop, according research from the NPD Group. The number of out-of-home coffee servings has declined three per cent in the past year, while the number of coffee shop visits remains almost the same. For coffee chains such as ...

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Lavazza announced its first 100 percent compostable and biodegradable coffee capsule for espresso machines. The capsules will be made of Mater-Bi, a bioplastic produced by Novamont. Bioplastics are materials whose properties and characteristics of use are very similar to those of traditional plastic ...

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Pod-based coffee machines are exploding in popularity. At the same time, environmentalists have expressed deep concerns that coffee grounds in a plastic pod are bad for the earth. Now, John Sylvan, who came up with the idea now known as K-Cups, has some regrets. ““I feel bad sometimes that I ever di ...

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Dunkin’ Donuts is throwing its losing K-cup strategy into reverse,announcing a partnership today with Keurig and J.M. Smucker to distribute its coffee pods to thousands of grocery and specialty stores, mass retailers, and online channels. The distribution will start midyear, and Dunkin’ will split t ...

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