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title: Coke machines to carry Juan Valdez
description: "- The Wall Street Journal - The Juan Valdez coffee-shop chain has signed a distribution deal with Coca-Cola Food Service to sell Colombian coffee in vendin"
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# Coke machines to carry Juan Valdez

- The Wall Street Journal - The Juan Valdez coffee-shop chain has signed a distribution deal with Coca-Cola Food Service to sell Colombian coffee in vendin

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 mag 31, 2007

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- The Wall Street Journal -

The Juan Valdez coffee-shop chain has signed a distribution deal with Coca-Cola Food Service to sell Colombian coffee in vending machines at 11,000 locations in the U.S., Colombia\'s National Federation of Coffee Growers, or Fedecafe, said. Coca-Cola Co.\'s food-service division, which distributes products at 455,000 restaurants across the U.S., signed the deal with Procafecol, the Colombian company that owns the Juan Valdez brand. The vending machines will use a stabilized coffee extract that doesn\'t require refrigeration.

The Juan Valdez coffee-shop chain has signed a distribution deal with Coca-Cola Food Service to sell Colombian coffee in vending machines at 11,000 locations in the U.S., Colombia's National Federation of Coffee Growers, or Fedecafe, said.

Coca-Cola Co.'s food-service division, which distributes products at 455,000 restaurants across the U.S., signed the deal with Procafecol, the Colombian company that owns the Juan Valdez brand. The vending machines will use a stabilized coffee extract that doesn't require refrigeration.

"This is a great partnership for both Coca-Cola Food Services and the National Federation of Coffee Growers," Chris Lowe, president of Coca-Cola Food Services, said. "It allows us to bring our customers a well-known high-quality coffee brand in an operationally efficient format and provided the Federation with the opportunity to create new Juan Valdez fans among the customers of the restaurants who carry Coca-Cola brands."

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