Waterbury business charts remarkable growth
By Molly Walsh, Free Press Staff Writer • July 5, 2009
WATERBURY — Five years ago, no one knew quite what to do with the decrepit train station in the center of this small town. Then came local employer Green Mountain Coffee Roasters with a plan to help renovate the 1875 building and lease a portion for a cafe and company visitors center.
The venture
Distant Lands' decision to become lead supplier has rewards, challenges
By Mike Hughlett | TRIBUNE REPORTER
TYLER, Texas -- Every day at the Distant Lands roasting plant here, a river of green coffee beans is transformed into espresso, fuel for McDonald's Corp.'s boldest gambit in decades.
Distant Lands' Russell Kramer was skeptical at first that it would ever happen. Could the burger giant
The Hawaii Coffee Association's 14th Annual Conference and Trade Show July 9 to 12 will offer what sponsors say is the first state-wide "cupping" competition at Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu, Maui.
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Highlights include evening dinner receptions, workshops, trade show, silent auction and farm tours. Funded in part by the state Department of Agriculture, this is the inaugural
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The Naked Cowboy in New York City's Times Square. How will he take his Tim Hortons coffee?Mario Tama/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Naked Cowboy in New York City's Times Square. How will he take his Tim Hortons coffee?
After a 25-year battle to make inroads in the biggest fast-food market in the world, Tim Hortons Inc. is set to open up a new U. S. front in August when it
Fair trade and organic coffee farming is the topic as a Jesuit High School mathematics and science teacher is on a large-scale research and environmental expedition in Costa Rica this week.
Jennifer Cournia, a 1997 Jesuit graduate, is in Coope Tarrazú, a farming cooperative located in the small town of San Marcos de Tarrazú.
Cournia is conducting research on coffee farms, meeting local farmers,
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