By David Nicholson
Daily Press Online, January 16, 2015
Chock full o’Nuts Coffee, roasted by parent company Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA in Suffolk, will be featured on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” airing at 8 p.m. Monday on WAVY-TV, Channel 10.
By Lorraine Eaton
The Virginia-Pilot, January 15, 2015
ON A LONELY stretch of Suffolk highway, it almost always smells like 8 a.m.
The aroma rises from Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA, hidden beyond the tree line along the U.S. 58 bypass, a massive plant that roasts and packages millions of pounds of coffee each month – think Chase & Sanborn, Hills Bros., Kauai Coffee and Chock full o’ Nuts.
On Monday night, the latter brand catapults beyond the tree line and onto “The Celebrity Apprentice” and becomes, at least for a time, the obsession of the likes of Donald Trump, Geraldo Rivera and two-time World Series baseball star Johnny Damon.
By Marvin PerezLuzi Ann Javier and Gerson Freitas Jr
Bloomberg News, December 30, 2014
Coffee, the best-performing commodity of 2014, is ending the year in a bear market that shows few signs of ending.
Prices that doubled this year by October fell 12 percent in the past two months as rains aided parched trees in Brazil, the world’s top grower. November was the wettest month of the year, after the worst dry spell in eight decades forced Starbucks Corp. and Folgers to charge more for their coffee.