Tag Archive 'hills_bros'

Trip Report: Tassili Caffé

Posted by TheShot on 24 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew

Errantly called ‘Tasili Coffee’ in most phone books and directories, this is a business lunch spot tucked away in the Hills Plaza brick office park, within a courtyard in the shadow of the Bay Bridge featuring a statue of the old Hills Bros. Coffee trademark: the turbaned Arab drinking coffee. Yes, this location was once [...]

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Sara Lee US Retail Coffee Brands Purchased by Segafredo Zanetti Coffee Group

Posted by TheShot on 13 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Beans

This just in from Yahoo! Finance: Sara Lee US Retail Coffee Brands Purchased by Segafredo Zanetti Coffee Group.
The Segafredo Zanetti Coffee Group is a relatively upscale brand. Particularly in this country. So what the heck are they doing buying out one of The Big Four — the world’s quadumvirate of crude, mass production coffee? [...]

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