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Ironman competition selects Kona as official coffee (Honolulu Advertiser) KAILUA-KONA, Hawai'i — The Ironman World Championship has made 100 percent Kona coffee an official brew, hoping to make up for an embarrassing gaffe last year when it angered Big Island farmers by naming a Guatemalan bean its official coffee. The South Florida Interactive Marketing Association Hosts 5th Annual Nautical Networking Event (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) The South Florida Interactive Marketing Association (SFIMA) will host the 5th annual Nautical Networking Event on November 7, 2008 aboard the 170-foot yacht, Lady Windridge, launching from Tranquility Marina in Ft. Lauderdale. Over 400 of the top professionals in the industry locally and from other regions in the U.S. will enjoy dinner, dancing, great prizes and dessert and coffee. Learn About the Coffee in the U.S.: Retail, Foodservice and Consumer Trends (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Tea - Coffee industry is available in its catalogue. Farmer Brothers' Coffee Bean Intl. Opens New Facility in Portland (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) TORRANCE, Calif.----Farmer Bros. Co. announced that Coffee Bean Intl. , a wholly owned subsidiary, has opened its new 125,000-foot coffee roasting and office facility in Portland, Ore. Coffee Gains as Central Banks Cut Rates to Ease Credit Crisis (Bloomberg) Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Coffee rose for a second straight day amid speculation that rate reductions by central banks, aiming to ease the global credit crisis, may stem a slide in commodities.
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