Millstone Coffee was a
brand
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of coffee sold in the
US, a division of
the J.M. Smucker Company
The J.M. Smucker Company, also known as Smuckers, is an American manufacturer of food and beverage products. Headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, the company was founded in 1897 as a maker of apple butter. J.M. Smucker currently has three major bus ...
. The company sold whole bean and ground
coffee
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in retail settings and on its
website
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.
History
The company was founded in
Everett, Washington
Everett is the county seat and largest city of Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is north of Seattle and is one of the main cities in the metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region. Everett is the seventh-largest city in the ...
, in 1981. Founder Phil Johnson sold 100-pound sacks of Arabica beans to high-end coffee shops in the greater
Seattle
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area and pioneered the idea of selling whole-beaned coffees to
supermarket
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s.
Johnson sold the company to
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...
in 1996, which closed most of the Everett operation and ran the company from Ohio. Johnson took the assets P&G did not purchase and created the Cascade Coffee company, which continues to do business in Everett.
Expansion
In January 2008, Procter & Gamble announced plans to create an independent company named the
Folgers Coffee Company. The company consisted of three segments: Retail, Commercial, and Millstone.
Merger
On November 6, 2008, The J. M. Smucker Company announced the completion of its merger with the Folgers Coffee Company. On September 9, 2016, J.M. Smucker Co. announced its decision to discontinue the Millstone brand, citing 'lack of sustainable demand'.
References
External links
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Coffee brands
The J.M. Smucker Co. brands
Products introduced in 1981
Products and services discontinued in 2016
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