Happy Thanksgiving

Thankfulness

An Israeli couple eulogized their only son emotionally. The audience in the synagogue listened with sympathy as the couple spoke of the young boy’s special character, appreciation for life, and deep devotion to the Holy Land of Israel. Just after his nineteenth birthday, he was brutally killed while defending his beloved Land. In their son’s memory, the parents presented a generous donation to their synagogue.

After the presentation a woman in the audience turned to her husband and whispered, “Let’s donate the same for our son.”

“What are you talking about?” asked the father. “Our boy didn’t lose his life.”

“That’s just my point,” replied the mother. “Let’s give charity because he was spared.”

“Ask not, ‘How can I get all the things I want?’ Ask, ‘How can I enjoy the things I have?’”

Chabad.org

Fair trade coffee sales grow in the US

The last two years have seen a significant increase in businesses using fair trade coffee, but Philippa Nuttall asks whether the US is really serious about ethical food ingredients.

The $100 million fair trade coffee market is the fastest-growing sector of the coffee industry, according to trade reports, and TransFair USA estimates that 30 million pounds of fair trade coffee will be imported into the US this year, nearly double the 18.7 million pounds that entered the country in 2003.

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Starbucks Converts to Recycled-Content Cup

Starbucks Environmental Leadership Drives Industry First With Use of the Only FDA Approved Recycled-Content Cup
Company Announces Plans to Convert Cup by End of 2005 in U.S. Company-Operated Retail Stores

SEATTLE, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/22/2004 -- E-Wire -- In an important step to further integrate leading environmental practices into its business, Starbucks Coffee Company announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Starbucks supply chain member, Mississippi River Corporation, the first-ever approval to use recycled content in food packaging, specifically Starbucks hot beverage cups. Following successful testing, Starbucks expects to convert its hot beverage cups to 10 percent recycled material, an industry first.

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Vietnam coffee exports rise 47%

HANOI - Vietnam has so far this year exported 806,000 tonnes of coffee worth US$533 million, a year-on-year increase of 47% in volume and 41% in value, according to the Vietnam Coffee-Cacao Association (VICOFA).

In 2004, the country's coffee sector showed signs of recovery as coffee prices in the world picked up after the 2000-03 crisis.

Vietnam's coffee products have been exported to 59 countries and territories with Germany and the US being the largest markets.

Since 2000, the country has become the world's second biggest coffee exporter after Brazil and equal to Columbia but leading in Robusta coffee exports.

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CoffeeSiphons.com is closing

After two great years of bringing pleasure to the coffee community with our exotic brewers and unique products, CoffeeSiphons.com will be closing its proverbial online doors at the end of this holiday season.

While we are sad to see this unique venture close, we know that this will bring you, our customers, some bit of happiness in that we are liquidating our inventory throughout the next month and a half.

We're sorry that our time together is being cut short, and we wish you all the best in your coffee-brewing pursuits. While most of our inventory has been sold-out, won't you shop CoffeeSiphons.com one more time and see what great values you can find to use as gifts this year?

www.coffeesiphons.com

All the best,
Jeremy Joslin, Partner & CEO
CoffeeSiphons.com
Joslin & Westerhof Imports, LLC

P.S. If you own a coffee shop and would like one last chance to stock up on some great selling products, contact us about wholesale lots of as few as six brewers. We are firstly a wholesale company and can import directly to your door.