Peets

Peets is one of the most popular specialty coffee roasters in their local California and they have a growing following on the world wide web. The Peets coffee & tea company sells a wide range of varieties of dark roasted coffees and various signature coffee blends and tea blends. Peets Coffee and Tea is sometimes called the "grandfather of specialty coffee" and they are a fixture of the local community in their native Berkeley, California.

Peets coffee was founded in the late sixties in Berkeley by Alfred Peets. Recently it is often asked "did Starbucks buy Peets coffee?" The answer is no; however the founders of Starbucks coffee created their company knowing Alfred Peets and when Starbucks was first created they bought their coffee beans from Peets coffee for a year as they got started. Later, the original founders of Starbucks bought and took control of Peets Coffee and Tea when Starbucks was bought by Howard Schultz (although the companies remained separate), which has led to some confusion. The two companies are known for being quite similar, although Peets coffee has remained mostly a California based business, with roughly one hundred and fifty locations most of which are in their home state. For a short time there was a small partnership for a few stores in Tokyo, and there are Peets coffee locations in some large cities across the United States, but on the whole Peets coffee has not gone for the same kind of quick expansion route that Starbucks has. Recently, however, they have gone public with an IPO that was successful in January 2001. They remain a competitor to Starbucks with a much smaller market cap.

You can buy Peets coffee either online or in various stores around the country; Peets coffee is sold in a limited number of the most popular packaged varieties in supermarket chains. Online, you can get Peets coffee from their official store and get a discount at special times using a Peets coffee promotion code. The Peets coffee web site also has a store locator that you can use to find out where the closest Peets coffee and tea retail chain store to you is and find out how to take a trip to where you can get more types of Peets coffee than may be available to you at your local supermarket. Peets coffee also has various promotions for Mother's Day and other holidays for which you can buy coffee related gifts and have them sent to the address of your mother, friends, family or other loved ones. Enjoy the variety of great coffee products from Peets coffee and tea on the web.