McDonald's To Sell Green Mountain Coffee
Coffee To Be Available In 650 Restaurants
POSTED: 9:06 am EDT October 28,
2005
UPDATED: 9:20 am EDT October 28,
2005
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Here's your chance to drink some green beans.Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced Thursday it will begin supplying 650 McDonald's restaurants with its brand of Newman's Own Organic coffee. The coffee for Newman's Own is certified as Fair Trade.That means the beans are produced by farmers who are guaranteed a minimum wage for their harvests and are encouraged to practice organic and sustainable cultivation.The contract is a first for the company, which actor Paul Newman started two decades ago."He was extremely excited. He knows how important organic fair trade coffee is and for Newman's -- we wouldn't have done it without Green Mountain -- because we knew we had to be organic and fair trade to get into the coffee business," said Peter Meehan, CEO of Newman's Own Organics.Green Mountain will ship the coffee from its plant in Waterbury to McDonald's across New England and Upstate New York.Sales begin next week.
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