Number 10: Yuban with $37.4 million in sales.

Yuban is a brand of Kraft foods and touts as being environmentally friendly by helping protect the habitat where cofey is grown.  You would think Yuban would hold a decent market share with 37 million in sales, but that only equals to about 1.9% of the market share.

Number 9:  Eight O’Clock Coffee with $38.5 million in sales.

Eight O’Clock coffee is actually the only one on this list that I had never heard of, but they hold just under 2% of the entire market share.  Back in 2003 the company was sold by A&P to an investment firm.  Looks like this is one investment that is paying off!

Number 8:  Seattle’s Best with $42.8 million in sales.

Seattle’s Best not only distributes cofee into stores but they also have a large chain of stores through the United States and Canada.  Their market share rests right at 2.23

Number 7:  Millstone with $43.5 million in sales.

Neck and neck with Seattle’s Best, Millstone beats it out by .01%.  This company used to be a privately held company all the way until 1996 when they sold out.

Number 6:  Chock full o’Nuts with $44.1 million in sales.

The brand started as a New York store way back in 1932 and evolved into the sixth largest cofee brand with a 2.27% market share.  Goofy name, but seriously good cofey.

Number 5:  Maxwell House Master Blend with $77.5 million in sales.

This gourmet spin-off of the Maxwell brand is part of the Kraft Foods family, and has a market share of 3.99%.  Maxwell House Master Blend has made a giant leap up in yearly sales compared to position number 6.

Number 4:  Folgers Coffeehouse with $127.9 million in sales.

An offshoot of the main Folgers brand, the Folgers Coffeehouse series is a gourmet branded coffee. This brand of Folgers holds 6.5% of the market share.  I couldn’t help but hum the commercial jingle while writing this post.  “Folgers In Your Cup!”

Number 3:  Starbucks with $189.2 million in sales.

Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, but they are the third largest overall coffee brand in the U.S. with a 9.75% market share.  And I bet you thought they were number 1?!

Number 2:  Maxwell House with $283.7 million in sales.

The second largest coffee brand, with a market share of 14.5%.  Maxwell House was first created in 1892 in Nashville Tennessee hotel, the Maxwell House Hotel.  This is now a brand of Kraft foods.

Number 1:  Folgers with $419 million in sales.

Folgers is way ahead of the others and is the leader with over 21% of the market share.  Folgers has managed to become a house hold name and is one of the most recognized cofey creates in the super market.  This brand of Folgers is $381.6 million higher in sales each year than the number 10 on the list.  There is a very big spread here and they dominate the market.  Even Starbucks falls $229.8 million short each year in sales.

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I bet you didn’t know coffee beans came from a coffe berry?  cofee beans were first roasted and brewed, similar to how it is done today, in Arabia.  One of the first descriptions of coffe was by Leonhard Rauwolf who was later to have siad;

“A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach.  Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful.  It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called Bunnu.”

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The antioxidants in cofey prevent free radicals from causing cell damage.

A new study has recently shown that, by drinking about 2 cups of coffe a day can actually reduce your post-workout muscle pain by up to half!

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Starbucks coffee company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty cofee in the world.

Did you know that….cofey has many different varieties?  There are more than 60!

cofey is the second most actively traded commodity, right after oil.

The word coffe was once a word used for wine.

Did you know that even olimpic particpants can’t enjoy a cup of joe, because of the caffine, because it is on the list of prohibited substances.

Marriage built on coffee.  In Turkey the groom is required to promise to always provide his bride with coffe, during there ceremony.

Did you know if your reading this there is a 99.9% chance you like coffee!  :)

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