Join the discussion on Eight o Clock Coffee:| Tata Tea on a global visit, to bid for Cadbury Scheweppes beverage arm | | Tata Tea’s appetite for global beverages companies doesn’t seem to dwindle. After buying Tetley, Good Earth, Eight o’ Clock Coffee, Himalayan Water and selling 30% stake in Glaceau for handsome profit, Tata is likely to bid for US drinks arm of UK-based Cadbury Schweppes.
Cadbury Schweppes is looking to offload its US beverage business as it aims to concentrate on its confectionery business to improve profitability. The beverage business includes Snapple range of fruit, diet drinks, iced teas and Dr. Pepper, 7UP, Snapple and Hawaiian Punch.
Tata Tea is in talks with PE funds such as Blackstone, Lion Capital and they could bid as a consortium. Apart from this other PE players such as Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts, Thomas Lee Partners, Bain Capital Cott Corp and Coca-Cola have shown interest in the deal, which is expected to fetch $16 billion.
It the Tata consortium emerges as the winner, Tata Tea would only like to have Snapple under its portfolio and would give other brands to other players in the consortium.
The move could pay off for Tata Tea as it would help it expanding and diversifying its portfolio so that it can offset the sluggish growth in... | |
| | America's favorite coffee.. results are in. What's your favorite? | | My personal favorite is Folgers 100% Colombian. I was reading on AOL and they did a poll in the US, so here's the results. But what I want to know, is which do you prefer? Or maybe espresso? What is you favorite brand or coffee style?No. 9 (Tie) -- Café Bustelo ( I use this brand when making Cuban Coffee for my husband!!)
Known as the poor man's gourmet coffee, it was originally founded by Gregario Bustelo in 1920s New York City. This deep-roasted, espresso-style coffee long-popular in Hispanic markets has made inroads among mainstream retail chains under the ownership of Rowland Coffee Roasters -- a.k.a. the Souto family -- whose coffee roots stretch back to 1800s Cuba.
A 10oz package can cost as low as $1.99 in the U.S., and yet it's finished in a million-dollar Italian-designed roaster.
No. 9 (Tie) -- Newman's Own Coffee
The popular but pricey Newman organics brand, which includes a range of products from salad dressing to pet food, packages Vermont's locally roasted Green Mountain Coffee, Inc.
In addition to organic growth processes, the coffee beans purchased for roasting are Fair Trade Certified. A 10-oz. bag of Newman's Special Blend runs about $7.50, but the name... | |
| | Getting tired of usual brand coffee. What brand you like and why? | | Over the years we have mainly stuck with the same folgers brand of coffee. Will it is ok in taste and price it seems like we are ready for a change. When walking down the coffee isle at the local grocery store theres such a large variety of coffee to pick from. Whats your favorite brand? Why? | |
| | What do you drink for dinner usually? | | What do you usually order to drink at dinner when you have dinner in a restaurant? How about at home? I usually like tea because I like to have tea to flush away the grease especially dinning outside. I sometimes order coke or orange juioce when I dine at a restaurant.Also, do you tend to finish the drink before the food arrive? I sometimes do:-pHow about you? | |
| | What's your favorite drink... coffee, tea, juice, water, pop, alcohol, or other? | | I drink alot of tea, water, and/or juice.
My friend likes his beer, which is good too...but I can't drink it due to medical reasons. Although, I'd really love to have one at times. I find it very refreshing on hot summer days...so I'm told.crazydaisy | |
| | | Bank account of life | | A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o"clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.
His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
As he manoeuvred his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. "I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. "Mr. Jones, you haven"t seen the room, just wait." "That doesn"t have anything to do with it," he replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn"t depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it"s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. "It"s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice
. I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out... | |
| | Dogs:What would you do if one came into your yard? | | I have decided to make this discussion and ask all you mylotters out there,[b]what would you do if a dog came into your yard?Would you ignore it?Would you chase it out of the yard?Would you shoot it?What if it was a neighbors dog?What if the dog attacked one of your dogs?Would you shoot it?Would chase it off?If you knew who it belonged to would to cuss them out?Would you tell them to keep their dog out of your yard or next time you would shoot it?Would you call the pound and have the dog taken away?[/b]The reason that I am posting about this is because Wednesday night about eight o clock a neighbor from down the road was walking their dog,it was not on a leash and it wandered into our yard,our two chihuahuas were outside,and they chased the dog out of the yard,and the dog turned around and bit the biggest chihuahua whose name is Cracker,my mom saw it and she told the lady to stay with Cracker while she took the other chihuahua Peanut into the house and got,my father,my fiance and me,we got a blanket and wrapped him up and took him to the emergency animal hospital,and after x-rays were done they said that the bite had punctured one of his lungs and air was escaping,she said he was... | |
| | Tricky ones! | | Instructions:1. Read a question once and only once2. Give your answer the same number as that of the question.3. Correct answers will be give only after everybody I expect to take the quiz will post their answers.4. No cheating. Q1: Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?Q2: I went to bed at eight O' clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine O' clock in the morning. How many hours of sleep would i get before being awakened by the alarm?Q3: Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?Q4: If you has only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil lamp, an oil heater and a candle, which would you light first?Q5: You're the bus driver. At the first stop 4 people get on. At the second stop 8 people on, at the third stop 2 people get off and, at the forth stop everyone got off. The question is what color are the bus driver's eyes?Q6: A cowboy rode to an inn on friday. He sstayed two nights and left on Friday. How could that be?Q7: If the red house is on the right side, the blue house is on left side. Where is the white house?Q8: What insect... | |
| | I bought eight new fishes today.. | | To day was a holiday and I decided to buy some new fishes for my aquarium as the market for the fancy fishes remain opened today.. I went there in the morning and I bought eight Electric Yellow Cichiled fishes..
I'm so excited .. in six months or so they will be bigger in size and will look great. | |
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