by Consultforfood <JamesPFarrell54@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 12, 2008 at 02:58 PM
On Feb 5, 11:12 pm, "Brock Bailey" <brbai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Most mc donalds (canada)coffee is seattles best and its owned by
starbucks
> from what I rember and mac's stores also sell seattles best coffee...but
one
> of our oldest coffee coompanies in canada called murchies was just sold
to a
> new canadian owner and is now back on the store shelves in most grocery
> stores and starbuck clubbered them as they didnt expand to changes in
the
> coffee marketing of there product.
>
> Comments welcome
>
> Brock R Bailey
> Victoria bc canada
The Seattle's Best brand in the U.S. is now owned by Starbucks.
Outside the U.S. the brand is owned by Focus Brands, Inc. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle's_Best_Coffee.
McDonald's has
recently upgraded its coffee in the U.S. Under McDonald's policy, the
local operators in a region jointly choose which suppliers they will
use. McDonald's Corp. has some say in this. Generally the U.S.
market is split among a few suppliers.
JP Farrell, Oak Park, IL (see my blog for other information on
innovation in the food and beverage industry at
http://jpfarrell.blogspot.com
