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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy the Canadian gourmet coffee roaster Van Houtte from its private equity owner Littlejohn for $890 million in cash. Lawrence J. Blanford, head of Green Mountain, said the purchase would speed his company’s expansion in North America. The company is funding the deal with [...]

The red-hot coffee market may be cooling down soon as hedge funds pull back on bets that bean prices will go higher, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Larger harvests — arabica supplies are expected to top demand by 6.67 million 60-kilogram bags by September 2011 — have helped contribute to investors cutting their net long [...]

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15 things I didn’t know about one of my favorite drinks. Pretty funny and informative and a little bit of useless knowledge never hurt anybody.

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