Lavazza

Infobox_Company
company_name = Luigi Lavazza S.p.A.
| title = 1901-1932
work = Lavazza History
publisher = Lavazza
url = http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/company/history/1901-1932.html
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ] The business of Lavazza S.p.A. is currently administered by the third and fourth generation of the Lavazza family.cite web
title = 2004-2006
work = Lavazza History
publisher = Lavazza
url = http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/company/history/2004-2006.html
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ] [cite press release
title = Lavazza Corporate Press Release
publisher = Lavazza
date = 2007
url = http://www.lavazza.com/export/sites/www.lavazza.com/en/pressarea/press_kit.pdf
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ]

Coffee

Lavazza imports coffee from around the world. Countries include Brazil and Colombia in South America, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras in Central America, Uganda in Africa, and Indonesia and Vietnam in Asia. Sustainable production concerns have led the company to develop the ¡Tierra! project, a sustainable agriculture program in Honduras, Colombia, and Peru, that seeks to improve the quality of coffee as well as the environmental and working conditions of those communities.

Branded as "Italy's Favourite Coffee," the company claims that 16 out of the 20 million coffee purchasing families in Italy choose Lavazza. Among its offerings today are products such as Top Class, Super Crema, Grand'Espresso, and Dek (decaffeinated).cite web
title = At Home
work = Range of Products and Services
publisher = Lavazza
url = http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/products/home/IT/blends/
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ]

Company

Lavazza has four production facilities located in Italy, with seven subsidiaries around the world: France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, Austria, and the United States. Lavazza distributes their products in eighty countries.cite web
title = When coffee is Lavazza
work = Spotlight
publisher = Italian Institute for Foreign Trade
date =
url = http://www.italtrade.com/spotlight/lavazza.htm
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ]

Lavazza has recently ventured into the Indian coffee market by buying out the entire stake of the Chennai-based Sterling Infotech group which owns the coffee chain The Barista Coffee Company and the coffee vending business Fresh and Honest.cite news
last = Mehta
first = Mona
title = Barista's second manufacturing unit by year-end
work = Market
publisher = "Express Hospitality"
date = Sept 1-15 2007
url = http://www.expresshospitality.com/20070915/market26.shtml
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ]

The company's turnover for 2006 is estimated at €930 million.cite web
title = Figures
work = Company
publisher = Lavazza
url = http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/company/numbers/
accessdate = 2007-10-23 ]

ee also

*illycaffè S.p.A.
*Segafredo Zanetti S.p.A.

References

External links

* [http://www.lavazza.com/corporate/en/ Official website]