Folgers Coffee purchase gave Smucker one profitable jolt

Three straight quarters of record sales and earnings -- including profits that have more than doubled three times -- have a way of silencing your detractors.

"The proof in the pudding is what the market thinks of what you've done, and their stocks have gone up more than the markets have gone up," said Fariborz Ghadar, professor of global management, policies and planning, and founding director of the Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State University. "These guys have done better than the market -- in a very challenging environment."

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Homer is Gonna Be Happy . . . mmmmmmmmmmm

Tomorrow is National Donut Day, which should actually be a national holiday. So, "Let Them Eat Donuts"

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Create a Donut . . . Got It In You?

Dunkin Donuts just launched a contest to create their next donut, win $12K, and see your donut sold throughout the Universe, or at least Dunkin Donuts.

Dunkin' Takes Battle Against Starbucks to Grocery Stores

Dunkin' has been running a marketing campaign that goes after Starbucks stores on taste, boasting that it beat the java giant in an "independent taste test." Now, J.M. Smucker Co., which owns Dunkin's supermarket-distributed coffee brand, is mounting an online sampling program for the brew-at-home version, DunkinAtHome.com. The site offers samples of Dunkin's original blend, as well as Dunkin' Dark.

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Dunkin's new CEO set to expand

"It's all about growth," Travis said. "We've got a lot of contacts between us and we can take the two strong brands out to these contacts and expand across the world."

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Dunkin' CEO Replaced by Papa John's CEO

An executive at one of the investment companies that owns Dunkin' stated, "We wanted someone with a strong consumer background and someone who has an ability to bring strong managerial experience to bear on a company that continues to have a strong growth trajectory even in this difficult environment." He said Travis met those two requirements and they were very excited about the opportunity to work with him.

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Smucker Cuts Folgers, Dunkin' Coffee Prices

Smucker is cutting Folgers Ground prices by 3.5% (10 cents per 10.3-11.5 ounce can); Folgers Gourmet varieties by 7.8% (10 cents per 10 to 12 ounces); and Folgers instant by 4.4%.

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Dunkin' Donuts Coffee: A Marketing 50 Case Study

The joint venture with the food-service brand, with marketing led by P&G, racked up first-year sales of close to $200 million after its launch in early 2007.

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Dunkin' Beat Starbucks

Dunkin' to double U.S. stores in anti-Starbucks push

Dunkin' Donuts -- the East Coast coffee shop chain called by some the "anti-Starbucks", because of its core blue collar customer base, still plans to more than double its U.S. stores to 15,000 by 2020, as its bigger rival from Seattle retrenches.

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