Monthly Archives: May 2010

Headlines this week read, “900,000 coffee makers recalled” as the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that nearly a million of GE’s 12-cup coffee makers are being recalled.

The GE coffee makers are a traditional 12-cupe slow drip machine with a warming plate under the glass carafe. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the GE-branded appliances catch fire. One of the fires reported was sever enough to have damaged countertops, cabinet and wall.

The coffee makers were sold in both black and white at Walmart stores from March 2008 through January 2010.

If you have one of these faulty coffee makers (model numbers 169164 in black and 169165 in white) get rid of it now or risk a nasty kitchen fire. We’d suggest replacing it with a Keurig brewing system, the most popular single-serving brewing system on the market, but that’s entirely up to you.

Vermont-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters picked up California-based Diedrich Coffee earlier this week. According to Associated Press, Green Mountain has disclosed that the deal totals about $300 million, and Diedrich, and Irvine, California based coffee roasting company, agreed to sell for $35 per share.

Lawrence J. Blanford, the President of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, says that the company believes this deal will provide significant growth opportunities and advance Green Mountain’s goal of becoming a leader in the coffee and coffee maker industry.

Green Mountain and Diedrich were among the four roasters licensed to produce and sell K-Cups for the top-selling Keurig single-serve coffee brewing system.

Green Mountain K-Cups Available from American Coffee Services

This weekend, people around the globe celebrated World Fair Trade Day on May 8th. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, known for its socially conscious, eco-friendly and fair-trade coffee products, has decided to expand its commitment to Fair-Trade coffees in honor of the day.

Two of the company’s most popular blends–The Vermont Country Blend and Our Blend–will use fair-trade coffee beans by October of this year, just in time for Fair Trade Month. The products will then be added to eight other fair-trade blends available from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

Through this expansion of the fair-trade product line, Green Mountain hopes to increase public awareness of fair-trade products, which encourage small-scale farms, particularly in impoverished areas, and also benefit the farmers and communities from which these products will now be ethically derived.

View our selection of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters K-Cups here.