Leslie Patton reports at BusinessWeek that – Sept. 16, 2012, is D Day — or at least K Day — for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. That’s when it will lose the main patents on K-Cups, the coffee pods that helped make Green Mountain the largest player in the $1 billion-plus U.S. single-serve coffee market.
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Starbucks coffee K-Cup Portion Packs for the Keurig Single-Cup Brewing system hit store shelves this week at major food, drug, mass, club, specialty, and department store retailers throughout the U.S.
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Businessweek reports that Dunkin’ Donuts will start selling its coffee in single-serve Keurig cups today, beating rival Starbucks Corp. to the market in a fast-growing portion of the coffee business.
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Josh Kosman of the NY Post reports thats Dunkin’ Donuts kicked off its IPO road show by brewing some single-serve cup coffee for investors.
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Patch.com reports that Governor Deval Patrick, along with State Rep. Brad Jones and State Sen. Katherine Clark visited Keurig on Walkers Brook Drive, Tuesday, to hear about the company’s history and how it continues to grow.
Read More »Katie Johnston Chase reports in The Boston Globe that earlier this week in a limited number of local stores, the Canton-based company started selling Dunkin’ One Cup, individual packets of coffee used in single-cup home brewers. “It’s a great way to get more people drinking more Dunkin’ coffee,’’ said Karen Raskopf, senior vice president of communications at Dunkin’ Donuts, who declined to say which or how many stores are participating in the test.
Read More »Rueters reports that J.M. Smucker Co (SJM.N) posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings as its Folgers coffee business continued to drive improved results, and the company signed a deal to sell coffee packs for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc’s (GMCR.O) brewers.
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