Black Friday at JustOneCup

Who says Black Friday is just for brick and mortar retailers?  Well, not us.  At JustOneCup, we want in on the fun.  Some of you don’t want to show up at a store at 4 a.m. to stand in line for 90% off underwear.  (If you do, I recommend some Coffee People Wake Up Call, by the way.)  If you prefer to get your best deals sitting comfortably at your computer, JustOneCup is your one stop Holiday shop!  Put on your robe and slippers, grab JustOneCup, and shop at JustOneCup until your list is complete!

We’re doing a BLACK FRIDAY SALE with everything at 15% off – Coupon Code below.  That’s everything.  Keurig brewers, Kcups, stovetop brewers, espresso brewers, whole bean coffee, even Peet’s!  Hey, it’s Black Friday, so we’re pulling out all the stops.  That means we can’t even advertise many of these prices – you’ll see them in your Shopping Cart, but nowhere else!

 
In addition, we’ll have special pricing on some select items for additional, ridiculous savings!    The techies were lazy, so your coupon code will even give you 15% off these special priced items.  As you know, that’s not supposed to happen, so take advantage of lazy techies!
They say Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year, so we want in.  It’s as simple as that.  And now we’re in. JustOneBlackFriday!

Use coupon code  4Asale in the shopping cart area to save 15% off your order. This coupon code/discount end 11/30/2009. Pass this code to your friends too so they can shop from home as well.

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Coffee War for Diedrich’s Kcups

Wow!  Green Mountain is pretty serious about keeping its rollup of Keurig KCup licensees to itself.  After Peet’s offered to buy Diedrich’s at $26 per share, Green Mountain made its own offer at $30 per share in cash.  Now Peet’s is back in it with a $32 per share offer. 

Of course, I was looking forward to a Peet’s Kcup, so I was pretty excited about the original deal.  But, now it’s a muddled world of coffee intrigue and we’ll have to sit and wait to see who wants Diedrich more.  Green Mountain has a lot more resources (and cash), so I’ve got to think if they want to win this war, they will.  We shall see…

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aYr6a9MAPpak

Peet’s Raises Diedrich Offer After Green Mountain Bid

By Courtney Dentch

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. raised its offer to buy Diedrich Coffee Inc. by 24 percent to about $265 million after Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. made a competing bid.

Peet’s increased its bid to $32 a share in cash and stock from a Nov. 2 offer of $26, according to a statement by the Emeryville, California-based company today. Green Mountain, which is based in Waterbury, Vermont, confirmed in a separate statement its offer for $30 a share in cash.

The acquisition would give Peet’s access to Diedrich’s license to make K-Cup brand coffee packets, single-servings used with Green Mountain’s Keurig brewing equipment. Green Mountain has been consolidating the K-Cup licenses. It bought Tully’s Coffee Corp. in March and Timothy’s Coffees of the World Inc. earlier this month.

“Green Mountain has been active in rolling up the current participants in the K-Cups,” said Matt DiFrisco, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. in New York. He has a “market perform” rating on Peet’s and doesn’t rate Green Mountain. “There’s clearly an advantage in the faster-moving K-Cup business than in the machines themselves.”

Green Mountain makes about 6.4 cents per K-Cup in licensing fees and could double that by selling them directly, said Mitchell Pinheiro, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia. He expects Keurig brewers to climb to 7 million installed units next year, from 3.5 million this year.

Peet’s fell $4.94, or 13 percent, to $33.06 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was the biggest decline since February 2001.

Diedrich jumped $7.66, or 29 percent, to $33.65, the biggest gain since April 30. Green Mountain rose 43 cents to $65.44.

Evaluating New Offer

Diedrich, based in Irvine, California, said in a statement that it is evaluating Peet’s new offer. On Nov. 20, the company informed Peet’s that it had determined Green Mountain’s offer to be the superior proposal.

Peet’s has until 5 p.m. California time Nov. 27 to convince Diedrich its offer is more attractive than Green Mountain’s. Diedrich must pay a breakup fee to Peet’s of $8.52 million if it walks away from the offer, according to the merger agreement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Nov. 2.

“We would not rule out the possibility of a higher bid from Green Mountain,”David Tarantino, an analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee, wrote in a note today. He rates Peet’s stock “outperform.”

Peet’s plans to fund part of the offer with cash on hand and $140 million in debt financing from Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Wells Fargo Securities LLC.

“They have the financial flexibility” to back the increased bid, DiFrisco said. “They haven’t voiced how much debt they want to take on to finance this.”

Coffee Consolodations Abound

Green Mountain Coffee recently acquired much of Timothy’s coffee.  Peet’s bought Diedrich Coffee (Gloria Jean’s, Coffee People).  It seems the whole Keurig K-cup world is consolidating.  I thought Green Mountain buying Tully’s was big last year, but it was just the beginning.  Those of us on the west coast are hoping that the Peet’s purchase of Diedrich means a Peet’s Kcup is in our future, but there’s no official word yet.  Green Mountain is obviously on a acquisition hunt, so it’ll be interesting to see what they do next. 

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200911130927DOWJONESDJONLINE000514_FORTUNE5.htm

Green Mountain Coffee Acquires Much of Timothy’s for $157 Million

November 13, 2009: 09:27 AM ET

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR) acquired the Timothy’s Coffees of the World Inc. brand and wholesale business for $157 million from an affiliate of private equity firm Sun Capital Partners Inc.

The deal gives the specialty-coffee company a Canadian presence and a Toronto roasting facility. Green Mountain shares were up 1.6% premarket at $69.45.

The retail portion of Toronto-based Timothy’s was purchased by Bruegger’s Enterprises Inc., which will support the brand in Canada. The acquisition includes a five-year supply agreement with Bruegger’s.

Despite the economic downturn, premium coffee is making inroads as an affordable luxury, and Green Mountain has broadened its appeal with a pact to get its products on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT) shelves.

Green Mountain also boosted its outlook for the new fiscal year in light of the pending acquisition. The earnings view was raised a dime to $1.85 to $1.95 a share, including 18 cents in write-downs related to the acquisition, while projected revenue growth was increased 5 percentage points to 55% to 60%.

Green Mountain President and Chief Executive Lawrence J. Blanford said, " Timothy’s wholesale business and brand is a landmark international acquisition" and will allow it to further the growth of its Keurig single-cup brewing system.

Timothy’s World Coffee brand and wholesale business will be integrated into Green Mountain’s specialty-coffee segment and is expected to add to earnings next year. The Keurig single-cup brewing systems boosted its fiscal fourth- quarter profit.

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National Coffee Day!

Today is National Coffee Day.  Celebrate with a cup or twenty of your favorite brew!  Today only, get 10% off anything at www.JustOneCup.com – use Coupon Code CoffeeDay. 

Kcups, Keurig Brewers, French Press, Bialleti Stovetop Espresso, Espresso makers, hot chocolate brewers, and more – oh my!

I know you need JustOneCup.

Is Fair Trade Coffee Fair?

A recent TIME article takes a look at Fair Trade Coffee and if it is truly creating the benefit that it was designed to create.  In short, Fair Trade was created to get more money to the farmers and farm workers who grow coffee.  Fair Trade coffees are purchased and sold at a premium and the excess money is supposed to trickle down to the farms.  In reality, however, the Fair Trade program, after farmers pay Fair Trade coop fees, is only marginally better than “standard” pricing and still leaves farmers in poverty.  Farmers claim that Fair Trade prices have not kept up with cost increases.  In the early years of Fair Trade coffee, farmers received almost double the retail price when using the Fair Trade model and now, according to this article, receive only a 10 percent premium.  The agency that oversees the Fair Trade program is looking at various ways to improve it and also is looking for other ways to benefit farmers.

For our Fair Trade coffees, click here.

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Green Mountain Coffee Stock still hot

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), also the parent company of Keurig, saw its stock rise yet again.  Even in a down market, GMCR has done very well and its stock price reflects their growth.  It’s hard to beat the convenience of a Keurig brewer and Green Mountain’s coffee is always a hot seller.  Nice to see some upside in this market. 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaR0tDWbOAB6qc84p5CmYzQu5uzAD9A6ODL01

Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters rise

(AP) – 26 minutes ago

NEW YORK — Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters — seller of Keurig coffee products — rose Thursday after a Janney Montgomery Scott analyst said the stock price had been weaker than it should be.

Analyst Mitchell Pinheiro reiterated a "Buy" rating on the stock and said the company’s fundamentals had not changed even though the shares had dropped after a recent secondary share offering.

Shares rose $1.99, or 3.6 percent, to $57.60 in afternoon trading.

Investors remain cautious, Pinheiro said, but "we believe the stock is best viewed with a two-year horizon." He said it will benefit from a growing brewer base, improving margins and better return on investment.

The analyst said he expects Green Mountain Coffee to eventually get 15 percent market share in the U.S. coffee brewer market.

Coffee grounds Southwest flight

Yes, that is an intentional pun.  Sorry, but I could not resist.  I generally hate bad puns in journalism, but for some reason had to do it.  Actually, it was the coffee brewer that caused the flight to be re-routed, but the pun is better leaving out the word brewer. 

Anyway, I suppose that it was good news to find out that the strange electrical smell was from the coffee brewer.  It sure could have been a lot worse.  If only Southwest had a Keurig…

 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE56R2L020090728

Flight grounded by coffee maker aroma

Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:07pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The electrical smell that caused a Southwest Airlines Co flight to make an unexpected landing Sunday was caused by a coffee maker in the back of the aircraft, a company spokesman said on Monday.

The coffee maker was in the back galley of the Boeing 737 plane. The aircraft was examined and put back into service by 12:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, said Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz.

"Anything that might have touched the burner might have caused the electrical smell," Mainz said. He added that the problem was "fairly unusual," although it was not the first time it has happened.

Flight 693 bound for Orlando, Florida, departed from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut at 7:21 a.m. EDT Sunday. The plane, which held 131 passengers and 5 crew members, landed at Long Island Islip MacArthur Airport shortly before 8 a.m.

Harvard says coffee does more good than harm!

Yes, I’m paraphrasing a bit, but that’s the gist of the latest findings on coffee, from Harvard.  They tracked people for 18 to 24 years (wow!) and found that coffee had no negative health effects.  Well, that is great news.  Drink up.  And not only JustOneCup.  You can drink a bunch.  Even people drinking six cups per day were fine. 

But, the news gets even better.  Research suggests coffee consumption helps with Type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s, liver cancer, and more!  So, no major down side, a few major upsides.  Go, coffee, go!  Let’s all have JustOneCup right now!

They did say if you’re drinking so much coffee that you’re shaking, you should slow down a bit.  I think that is a pretty good rule of thumb anyway.  If you consume so much of anything that you’re getting the shakes, go ahead and cut back.  The same is true if you cannot sleep at night because of your coffee consumption.  Unless, of course, that is the point of your coffee consumption (for all you college students out there reading this during finals week, drink on!).  Also, pregnant women and high blood pressure folks should limit caffeine intake. 

One I hadn’t heard of was the finding that filtered coffee is better for those with high cholesterol as the filter decreases cafestol which can increase LDL.  Of course, our Keurig Kcups have a paper filter, so we’re good there. 

Oh, and they don’t consider Starbucks’ 500 calorie mocha frappuccino a “coffee” in their study.  But, real coffee drinkers know that as well.  Coffee doesn’t come with whip cream as an option.  Crema is one thing, but whip cream and more milk than coffee takes it out of the coffee realm in my world. It’s dessert, not coffee. 

So, go ahead.  Have JustOneCup.  Then up to five more.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/questions/coffee/

The Nutrition Source

Ask the Expert: Coffee and Health

Dr. Rob van Dam

Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

• Drinking up to six cups a day of coffee is not associated with increased risk of death from any cause, or death from cancer or cardiovascular disease.
• Some people may still want to consider avoiding coffee or switching to decaf, especially women who are pregnant, or people who have a hard time controlling their blood pressure or blood sugar.
• It’s best to brew coffee with a paper filter, to remove a substance that causes increases in LDL cholesterol.
• Coffee may have potential health benefits, but more research needs to be done.

1. The latest Harvard study on coffee and health seems to offer good news for coffee drinkers. What did the research find?

We looked at the relationship between coffee consumption and overall mortality in the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which together included about 130,000 study volunteers.  At the start of the study, these healthy men and women were in their 40s and 50s. We followed them for 18 to 24 years, to see who died during that period, and to track their diet and lifestyle habits, including coffee consumption. We did not find any relationship between coffee consumption and increased risk of death from any cause, death from cancer, or death from cardiovascular disease. Even people who drank up to six cups of coffee per day were at no higher risk of death. This finding fits into the research picture that has been emerging over the past few years: For the general population, the evidence suggests that coffee drinking doesn’t have any serious detrimental health effects.

2. So for coffee drinkers, no news is good news? Why is this finding so important?

It’s an important message because people have seen coffee drinking as an unhealthy habit, along the lines of smoking and excessive drinking, and they may make a lot of effort to reduce their coffee consumption or quit drinking it altogether, even if they really enjoy it. Our findings suggest that if you want to improve your health, it’s better to focus on other lifestyle factors, such as increasing your physical activity, quitting smoking, or eating more whole grains.

3. Is there an upper limit for the amount of coffee that is healthy to drink each day?

If you’re drinking so much coffee that you get tremors, have sleeping problems, or feel stressed and uncomfortable, than obviously you’re drinking too much coffee. But in terms of effects on mortality or other health factors, for example, we don’t see any negative effects of consuming up to six cups of coffee a day. Keep in mind that our study and in most studies of coffee, a “cup” of coffee is an 8-ounce cup with 100 mg of caffeine, not the 16 ounces you would get in a grande coffee at a Starbucks, which has about 330 mg of caffeine.

Also keep in mind that the research is typically based on coffee that’s black or with a little milk or sugar, but not with the kind of high-calorie coffeehouse beverages that have become popular over the past few years. A 24-ounce mocha Frappachino at Starbucks with whipped cream has almost 500 calories—that’s 25 percent of the daily calorie intake for someone who requires 2,000 calories a day. People may not realize that having a beverage like that adds so much to their energy intake, and they may not compensate adequately by eating less over the course of the day. This could lead to weight gain over time, which could in turn increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, and that’s a major concern.

4. Is there any research that suggests coffee may have some beneficial health effects?

Yes, research over the past few years suggests that coffee consumption may protect against type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, liver cancer, and liver cirrhosis. And our latest study on coffee and mortality found that people who regularly drank coffee actually had a somewhat lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease than those who rarely drank coffee; this result needs to be confirmed in further studies, however. This is a pretty active area of research right now, and it’s not at the stage where we would say, “Start drinking coffee to increase your health even if you don’t like it.” But I think the evidence is good that for people in general—outside of a few populations, such as pregnant women, or people who have trouble controlling their blood pressure or blood sugar—coffee is one of the good, healthy beverage choices.

5. Why does it seem like scientists keep flip-flopping on whether coffee is bad for you or good for you?

Often people think of coffee just as a vehicle for caffeine. But it’s actually a very complex beverage with hundreds and hundreds of different compounds in it. Since coffee contains so many different compounds, drinking coffee can lead to very diverse health outcomes. It can be good for some things and bad for some things, and that’s not necessarily flip-flopping or inconsistent. Few foods are good for everything. That’s why we do studies on very specific health effects—for example, studies of how coffee affects the risk of diabetes—but we also conduct studies such as this most recent one looking at coffee consumption and mortality over a long period of time, which better reflects the overall health effect.

Coffee is also a bit more complex to study than some other food items. Drinking coffee often goes along together with cigarette smoking, and with a lifestyle that’s not very health conscious. For example, people who drink lots of coffee tend to exercise less. They are less likely to use dietary supplements, and they tend to have a less healthful diet. So in the early studies on coffee and health, it was hard to separate the effects of coffee from the effects of smoking or other lifestyle choices.

Over the several decades that coffee has been studied, there have been some reports that coffee may increase the risk of certain cancers or the risk of heart disease. But in better conducted studies, such as the one we just published—larger studies that have a lot of information about all other lifestyle factors and make a real effort to control for these lifestyle factors—we do not find many of these health effects that people were afraid of.

6. What is the latest research on the risks of coffee or caffeine during pregnancy?

For pregnant women, there has been quite a bit of controversy over whether high intake of coffee or caffeine may increase the risk of miscarriage. The jury is still out. But we know that the caffeine goes through the placenta and reaches the fetus, and that the fetus is very sensitive to caffeine; it metabolizes it very slowly. So for pregnant women it seems prudent to reduce coffee consumption to a low level, for example one cup a day.

7. Should people with high blood pressure consider reducing their coffee or caffeine intake? What about people with diabetes?

We know that if people are not used to using any caffeine, and they start to use caffeine, their blood pressure goes up substantially. Within a week of caffeine consumption, however, we see that the effect is less pronounced—there is less of an increase in blood pressure. After several weeks of continued caffeine consumption, however, a little bit of increase in blood pressure remains. In studies that look at the incidence of hypertension in the general population, drinking caffeinated coffee is not associated with a substantial increase in risk. But if people have hypertension, and are having a hard time controlling their hypertension, they could try switching from caffeinated coffee to decaffeinated coffee, to see if it has a beneficial effect.

With diabetes, it’s a bit of a paradox. Studies around the world consistently show that high consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee is associated with low risk of type 2 diabetes. But if you look at acute studies that just give people caffeine or caffeinated coffee, and then have them eat something rich in glucose, their sensitivity to insulin drops and their blood glucose levels are higher than expected. There isn’t any long-term data on coffee consumption and glucose control. But if people have diabetes and have trouble controlling their blood glucose, it may be beneficial for them to try switching from caffeinated to decaffeinated coffee. Making the switch from caffeinated to decaf may be better than quitting coffee altogether, because some research suggests that decaffeinated coffee actually reduces the glucose response.

8. How do you explain the paradoxical findings on coffee and caffeine consumption and diabetes?

It’s possible that there are simply different effects for short-term and long-term intake of coffee and caffeine. And, as I mentioned before, it’s becoming increasingly clear that coffee is much more than caffeine, and the health effects that you see for caffeinated coffee are often different than what you would expect based on its caffeine content.

For example, if you look at exercise performance, it seems that caffeine can be somewhat beneficial, but caffeinated coffee is not. Or if you look at blood pressure and compare the effects of caffeinated coffee to the effects of caffeine, you’ll find that caffeinated coffee causes blood pressure increases that are substantially weaker than what one would expect for the amount of caffeine it contains. The same is true for the relationship between coffee, caffeine, and blood glucose after a meal. It’s possible that there are compounds in coffee that may counteract the effect of caffeine, but more research needs to be done.

9.  Is drinking coffee made with a paper filter healthier than drinking boiled coffee or other types of coffee?

Coffee contains a substance called cafestol that is a potent stimulator of LDL cholesterol levels. Cafestol is found in the oily fraction of coffee, and when you brew coffee with a paper filter, the cafestol gets left behind in the filter. Other methods of coffee preparation, such as the boiled coffee common in Scandinavian countries, French press coffee, or Turkish coffee, are much higher in cafestol. So for people who have high cholesterol levels or who want to prevent having high cholesterol levels, it is better to choose paper filtered coffee or instant coffee, since they have much lower levels of cafestol than boiled or French press coffee. Espresso is somewhere in the middle; it has less cafestol than boiled or French press coffee, but more than paper filtered coffee.

10. Do tea and coffee have similar beneficial effects?

One could expect some of the beneficial effects of coffee to be similar for tea, since some of the compounds are similar. A study in China has found that drinking large quantities of Oolong tea—a liter a day—is beneficial for glycemic control in people with diabetes. But research on tea in the U.S. has not shown the type of beneficial effect we see for coffee, probably because people in the U.S. tend to drink tea that is weaker in strength and tend to drink less of it.

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