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Douwe Egberts is a Dutch brand of coffee which is majority-owned by JDE Peet's. It was founded in Joure, Netherlands, by Egbert Douwes in 1753 as De Witte Os ("The White Ox"), a general grocery shop. The company later started dealing specifically in coffee, tea, and tobacco.
The Dutch province of Groningen was sued in 2007 by Dutch coffee supplier Douwe Egberts for explicitly requiring its coffee suppliers to meet fair trade criteria set by Stichting Max Havelaar, most notably the payment of a minimum price and a development premium to producer cooperatives. Douwe Egberts, which sells a number of coffee brands ...
Jacobs Douwe Egberts merged with Peet's Coffee, another coffee business owned by JAB Holding, to form JDE Peet's which would own the Peet's chain, as well as brands including: Jacobs Coffee, Douwe Egberts, Moccona, Super Coffee, Owl Coffee, OldTown White Coffee, Kenco and Pickwick, and brewing systems including Senseo and Tassimo. [16]
The Jacobs Douwe Egberts factory (JDE factory) is a coffee producing factory in the Ruscote ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Built in the 1960s as a General Foods factory ( GF factory ) producing convenience food and drink including Bird's Custard , it subsequently changed ownership to Kraft Foods and Mondelez .
In 2014, the company announced a merger of its coffee business with the Dutch firm Douwe Egberts. [26] The name of the newly merged company would be Jacobs Douwe Egberts (now JDE Peet's). [26] The merger was confirmed on May 6, 2014, and completed on July 2, 2015. [27] [28]
Before Douwe Egberts introduced Drum in the UK there was an active gray market and Drum had a large market-share: as the tobacco prices were once much higher in the UK than on the European mainland, there were many people who traveled to (mainly) Belgium or France by ferry to import alcohol and tobacco.
The Winkel van Sinkel Utrecht was opened on May 6, 1839. Although it was primarily a factory store without self-service, the store is seen as the first department store in the Netherlands as there was a lot of diverse types of merchandise for sale. Sinkel then came up with the well-known verse as an advertisement: "In de Winkel van Sinkel"
Group 1 Automotive, Inc. is an international Fortune 300 automotive retailer [3] with automotive dealerships and collision centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Group 1 sells new and used cars and light trucks, arranges financial services , provides maintenance and repair services, and sells vehicle parts.