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Article: Austria - they're roasting up a storm. (Julius Meinl AG) (Company Profile)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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Julius Meinl--A company which has gone through two world wars, its assets stolen, was still able to build itself back as a major roaster for Austria. Now e company is proudly prominent in the former Eastern Bloc countries where it originally had its roots. Mindful of the swell of coffee specialty shops in the U.S., I couldn't help but notice the myriad coffee shops throughout Western Europe as well as in the former iron curtain countries. It really did start all here with the company Julius Meinl as one of those shops whose beginnings started over 100 years ago. It is these European shops that were the forerunner of the specialty phenomenon in the U.S.
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