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EMERYVILLE Calif. Alfred Peet, founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea and a catalyst for the premium-coffee boom of the past two decades, died at his home in Ashland, Ore., on Aug. 29 at age 87. The cause of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Coffee legend Alfred Peet, creator of Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc., a forerunner to Starbucks Corp., has died at his home in Ashland, Oregon, his company said. He was 87. Sign up ...

Alfred Peet, 87, a Dutch tea trader who started the gourmet coffee craze in the United States with his rich, darkly roasted, high-altitude beans and taught the trade to the founders of Starbucks and ...

This is a bit late but I didn't see any other thread in a search. If you don't live in California, you may not have heard of Peet's Coffee. But rest assured, if you live in America and like good ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Peet's Coffee & Tea is being taken private by a German conglomerate for approximately $977.6 million. Privately held Joh. A. Benckiser, which invests in consumer goods brands, ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. & PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peet’s Coffee & Tea and Stumptown Coffee Roasters today announced an agreement in which Peet’s will acquire ownership of Stumptown from its ...