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- <text id=90TT1805>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: Business Notes:Beverages
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 54
- Business Notes
- BEVERAGES
- Down to the Last Drops
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- <body>
- <p> For 50 years Hoboken, N.J., has awakened to the rich smell
- of coffee roasting at the Maxwell House factory on the town's
- famous waterfront. But last week the Philip Morris subsidiary
- announced that the factory, which has 600 employees and ranks
- as the city's largest industrial employer, will close in 1992.
- Like other brands, Maxwell House has suffered from the decline
- in U.S. coffee consumption. On average, Americans now drink
- 1.75 cups a day, roughly half their intake in 1962. Younger
- consumers favor soft drinks.
- </p>
- <p> The company will replace the Hoboken output by boosting
- production at its factory in Jacksonville. But residents of
- Manhattan at night, across the Hudson River, will miss the
- venerable red-and-white neon sign of Maxwell House, its
- trademark coffee cup spilling out the last drops.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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