CoffeeGIANT Blog

Our office will be closed for Christmas on Friday, December 26, and for New Year’s on Friday, January 1, 2010.

The CoffeeGIANT team would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! Have a safe and festive holiday weekend!

CoffeeGIANT is proud to bring you a new season of GIANT Jubilee, your chance to win great prizes, through January 17! Registering is easy, and our fabulous prizes change every week.

Take a look at last week’s lucky winners! Bruce Altobelli of New Hampshire and Alan Serin of Florida have each won a new Nintendo DS Lite game system, and our grand prize of an Emerson 32″ LCD HDTV went to Stephen Paxos of New Jersey, courtesy of CoffeeGIANT Jubilee! (more…)

One week left for FREE K-Cups!

Need a last-minute/late gift for someone? Whether they’ve been naughty or nice, we’re sure you’ll agree that everyone deserves the convenience of a Keurig. And with our current sales on K-Cups, you can buy some for them and get some free for yourself!

Through December 31, all Timothy’s K-Cup boxes are Buy 6, Get 1 FREE! Or mix and match your selections from the Diedrich, Gloria Jean’s and Coffee People line-ups with our Buy 5 Boxes, Get 1 FREE sale!

Click here to browse our current promotions!

Over the past few months, Peet’s Coffee and Green Mountain Coffee have been engaged in a “battle of the pocketbooks” over who would acquire Diedrich Coffee’s single-serve line-up, which contains all Gloria Jean’s and Coffee People K-Cups as well.  With offers coming in from both sides, it seemed Green Mountain always had the bigger-better offer over Peet’s, and it eventually won out.

Straight off the press, here’s the Diedrich account of how it all went down:

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Diedrich Coffee, Inc. (Nasdaq: DDRX) today announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMCR) pursuant to which GMCR will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Diedrich Coffee for $35.00 in cash per share.

The Board of Directors of Diedrich Coffee had previously determined and announced that the GMCR $35 per share, all-cash offer was superior to the terms of the merger agreement with Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEET) and the exchange offer contemplated thereby, as amended by the revised proposal received from Peet’s on November 30, 2009 (which revised proposal subsequently expired on December 1, 2009). (more…)