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Starbucks to Donate $.05 from every Hand-Crafted Beverage on World AIDS Day

Geoffrey — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:42:05 +0000

“Coffee company Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) today announced that on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2009, it will make a USD0.05 contribution to the Global Fund for every hand-crafted beverage sold on that day at participating Starbucks
stores in the US and Canada.

The company also said that if customers are unable to make it to a Starbucks store on World Aids Day, they can still be a part of the fight against AIDS in Africa by visiting http://www.starbucksloveproject.com. There they can contribute a drawing to the aEUR~Love Gallery’ and for each drawing Starbucks will make a USD0.05 contribution to the Global Fund, up to 1 million drawings.”

You can also find brief a description at the Starbucks event page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184910581805.

Read the full article, “Starbucks to contribute USD0.05 from every hand-crafted beverage for World AIDS Day,” at TradingMarkets.com. Posted 11/30/09.

Wolf Farms Takes First at Kona Coffee Classic Cupping Competition

Geoffrey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:04:21 +0000

Wolf Farms won first place in this year’s annual Kona Coffee Classic Cupping Competition at Keauhou Beach Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.”

Read the full article, Wolf Farms wins Kona coffee competition at Pacific Business News

Attending Heine Bros. Street Party

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:20:45 +0000

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to catch much of the 15th Anniversary Street Party at Heine Brothers’ Coffee. I wanted to go for about 1-1/2 hours, but ended up only making it for the last 30 minutes. The great coffee (of course it was great, it’s Heine Bros.) and good music made it seem like it really wasn’t 44 degrees outside. It’s 9:57 p.m. and just about everyone that was here for the party has left, which doesn’t surprise me since it’s a Friday night. It was busy enough when I got here that there wasn’t any sitting room and the line went out the door to get a cup of coffee. Although that’s usually not a problem, I was glad too see all the business Heine Bros. was getting. I think Mike Mays was there; I didn’t talk to him, but he seems like a very friendly and caring guy, talking about some of the photos from trips to other countries that are hanging up in the Longest Avenue location. I overheard him say he thought around 200 people showed up. I really didn’t have any expectation of how many people were going to attend, but that sounds like a good number to me. If you weren’t there, you missed out. Make it up to yourself and go buy a cup of Heine Brothers’ Coffee!