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...Athens Street resident, who just moved to the area on Sept. 15, said last night that she heard and witnessed the chain of events from her window...
...part of the campaign to tap into the $9 billion specialty-coffee market, the federation is opening a chain of posh Juan Valdez cafes, complete with porcelain cups, comfy chairs and knock-off Frappuccinos. Two weeks after the Washington cafe opens, the President of Colombia will preside over a similar gala at Juan's flagship store in Manhattan. And this fall Target will start stocking single-serve Juan Valdez coffee machines to help consumers replicate cafe quality at home. "Even the average consumer is requesting much better coffee quality and in plain-vanilla places like a burger joint...
...real goal is to revitalize the perception of Colombian coffee. Labels on some Juan Valdez products note that the beans are "the primary source of income for more than 500,000 peasant families in Colombia." The U.S. cafes will stress the chain's vertical integration "from the tree to the cup." That altruistic spin could play well in a marketplace where do-gooder brands like Green Mountain and Equal Exchange have captured consumers' attention--and dollars...
Bank One and J.P. Morgan Chase. Now the pairings are trickling down the asset chain. In late August Citigroup said it was buying its way into retail banking in Texas by acquiring privately held First American Bank. Two days later, Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank announced it would spend $3.8 billion for 51% of Banknorth Group, based in Portland, Maine, which is itself expanding southward by acquisition...
When Four Seasons asked George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg to design a hotel, the Toronto-based architects confessed they had never worked on a luxury hotel. To their surprise, that's what the resort chain--which was reputed for high-class service but not necessarily high-class design--was looking for. "Going to most hotels is like going to Grandma's bedroom. It's fussy and old-fashioned. They wanted a modern approach," says Pushelberg. "It's all in the details and subtlety, so it can resonate with someone 65 years old but also with someone...