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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.
It was formed in 2015 following the merger of the coffee division of the American Mondelez International with the Dutch Douwe Egberts as Jacobs Douwe Egberts. In December 2019, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) merged with Peet's Coffee to form JDE Peet's. This merger was followed by an initial public offering in 2020. [6]
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 May 2014, D.E Master Blenders 1753 announced to acquire a majority stake in Mondelez's coffee business (outside of France) to form Jacobs Douwe Egberts, it would combine brands Jacobs, Carte Noire, Gevalia, Kenco, Tassimo and Millicano from Mondelez International and Douwe Egberts, L'OR, Pilao and Senseo from D.E Master Blenders. [16]
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.
In 1753, Egbert Douwe and his wife, Akken, opened a coffee, tea, and tobacco kiosk on Main Street in Joure, Friesland. Until 1937, all the company's teas were produced under the Douwe Egberts brand; each box had an English postage stamp as a symbol. In the 1930s, the company was headed by Johannes Hessel, whose wife loved to read Charles Dickens.
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Douwe or Douw is a Dutch given name of West Frisian origin, probably meaning "dove" (Frisian: dou). [1] Notable people with the name include: Douwe Amels (born 1991), Dutch track and field athlete; Douwe Aukes (1612–1668), Frisian sea captain of the Dutch East India Company; Douwe Blumberg, Dutch sculptor; Douwe Bob (born 1992), Dutch singer ...