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Trouble brewing between Starbucks, Green Mountain

February 20, 2011

According to The Montreal Gazette, Starbucks Corp. is trying to negotiate better terms with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. in an attempt to establish itself as a dominant force in the U.S. single-cup coffee market, analysts said on Friday.

Green Mountain, with a more than 80 per cent share of the single-cup market, makes Keurigbranded machines that brew individual cups of coffee with small plastic packets of coffee, which it also provides.