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First Look: Java Cafe Coffee Pods (The Labels Are Here)

As we continue to prepare for the launch of our Java Cafe Coffee Pod lineup in very early March, we’ve been providing updates as they become available.Today, the labels for our 12 varieties of Coffee Pods were delivered. Above is a picture of some of the rolls before we shipped them out to our roaster.While all of them look great, we’re partial to Black, Colombian Cafe Arabica and Empire Diner Blend. After seeing all of the pictures of the labels, what are your favorites?Java Cafe Coffee Pods will be available for offices exclusively from Corporate Essentials starting in early March. Contact a Corporate Essentials Office Coffee Professional today in order to set up an in-office tasting as soon as they become available.

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Building a Brand: Creating the Java Cafe Coffee Pod Lineup (Part I)

So it might make more sense to go in chronological order, and start more than a year ago when we sat down with a design firm from the west coast, and came up with a plan to totally rebuild our Java Cafe Brand of coffees. But, we thought about it, and decided that sharing each step with you as we wrap up the process of completing our Java Cafe Coffee Pod lineup might be more interesting.This week, we printed the film that will wrap each Java Cafe Coffee Pod, and seal in the freshness. Creating the perfect film for our Java Cafe Coffee Pods was big for us, mostly because of our commitment to freshness. Even back when we first discussed launching our own brand of coffee pods, our goal was to bring the freshest possible single-serve coffee experience to our customers.The first step was finding a “local” coffee roaster, willing to roast only

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First Look: Java Cafe Guatemalan Asado Perfecto Coffee Pods

So far, we have introduced three of the 12 Coffee Pods in our exclusive Java Cafe lineup – one everyday favorite and two flavors, which are sure to be popular with all of our clients who enjoy flavored coffees. Today, we are introducing Java Cafe Guatemalan Asado Perfecto Coffee Pods, the first of three single-origin offerings in the Java Cafe Coffee Pod line up.Asado Perfecto translates to “Perfect Roast,” and the reason for this is because we roast these Guatemalan beans a little different than most. Most of the time, when you see a single-origin Guatemalan coffee, it will be a medium roast, but we have found that that asado perfecto for this 100% Arabica coffee is to go just a bit darker.If you’re a fan of coffees from South and Central America, or just a fan of good coffee in general, we guarantee you’ll love our new Java Cafe

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First Look: Java Cafe Vanilla Bean Coffee Pods

When creating the Java Cafe Coffee Pod lineup, we were told over and over that we “needed” to have a both French Vanilla and Hazelnut as flavored options.After looking through a lot of data, we agreed that the people who were telling us that we needed to offer a French Vanilla and Hazelnut flavored option were correct – kind of… When it came down to it, the term “French Vanilla” just didn’t seem like it was vanilla enough. We needed something with even more vanilla flavor. And where can you get the most vanilla flavor from? A vanilla bean. And with that, Java Cafe Vanilla Bean Coffee Pods were born. Our Java Cafe Vanilla Bean Coffee Pods use more vanilla flavoring than any other coffee pods available today. From the time you tear open the packaging of one of our Java Cafe Vanilla Bean Coffee Pods, there will be no

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First Look: Java Cafe Dulce de Leche Coffee Pods

When talking to our customers about what they want, it was clear that those who enjoy single-cup coffee ask for one thing much more than anything else – more flavor choices. That’s why, in putting together the Java Cafe Coffee Pod lineup, we wanted to push the bouderies of flavoring past the regular french vanilla and hazelnut choices (although Java Cafe Vanilla Bean and Java Cafe Pacific Northwest Hazelnut Coffee Pods are part of the lineup too). We’ve purposely added more flavoring to our coffee pods than anyone else in order to ensure our flavors shine through.Finally coming to the idea to create Java Cafe Dulce de Leche Coffee Pods was not difficult. Although most caramel flavored coffee pods present the coffee lover with a toasted caramel, or creme brule-like flavor, we wanted ours to be different. We wanted the Java Cafe Dulce de Leche Coffee Pods to have a

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Exclusively Corporate Essentials: The Java Cafe

Since the start of Corporate Essentials in 1996, our exclusive line of Java Cafe coffees have undergone several facelifts. As Corporate Essentials has grown as a company, our coffee line up has grown as well. Up until now, the Java Cafe line of coffees has been made up of ground coffee in fraction packs, for the most part, used only in offices. Over the past year, our Java Cafe brand has been undergoing its biggest change ever. Not only has the Java Cafe brand new look been given a new look, but it is now expanding into the single-serve, coffee pod market. This March, Corporate Essentials will release a line up of 12 different coffee pods which start with 100% Arabica coffee beans, which are roasted in small batches, ground, packaged and shipped quickly to ensure each cup of Java Cafe coffee is the freshest, best-tasting cup possible. In addition to our

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First Look: Java Cafe Empire Diner Blend Coffee Pods

Today we’re unveiling the first selection in Corporate Essentials‘ Java Cafe Coffee Pod lineup: Java Cafe Empire Diner Blend Coffee Pods. Over the past few years, the trend has been to make, what the industry has termed, Donut Shop Coffees. As a matter of fact, since 2007, Coffee People’s Donut Shop Keurig K-Cups for the Keurig Brewing System have outsold every other Keurig K-Cup about 8 -to-1.But when you really think about it, outside of the donut shop with the pink and orange logo, in what other donut shops do you really drink coffee?As we do for a lot of our marketing meetings, we got together at the Pine Brook (NJ) Diner, right down the road from our office to initially discuss the Java Cafe Pod lineup. As we sipped our coffee, the thought that was echoed over and over was that we need to have a great “donut shop blend”

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