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Blackanthem Military News
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Last Updated:
Mar 18, 2010 - 5:39:57 PM |
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LINCOLN and SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. - Families and friends of U.S. military service members can now treat their troops to "Fairly Traded" gourmet coffee and let the Rogers Family Company (www.rogersfamilyco.com) pay the freight to any overseas base in the company's "Summer of Free Shipping To Support Our Troops" program.
The Rogers Family Company - a producer of "Fairly Traded" branded gourmet coffee and tea available throughout the U.S. and abroad - will offer free priority-mail shipping for anyone who sends coffee, tea and other gifts to service members wit h an APO/FPO (military post office) address through September 21.
Part of the Rogers Family Co.'s ongoing support of U.S. troops, this program is also good for service members and for their own coffee or tea orders. The free shipping offer, including coffee gift packages or mugs for birthdays or other special days, applies to any package or item ordered from the Rogers Family Gourmet Coffee & Tea Market (www.gourmet-coffee.com) or (www.rogersfamilyco.com).
The Rogers Family Company this year is once again teaming up with Operation Gratitude - a non-profit, all -volunteer organization that sends care packages to military personnel in hostile zones throughout the world. Rogers Family Coffee Company has been a longtime partner with Operation Gratitude (www.opgratitude.com). During last year's holiday season, the Rogers Family Company launched the "Letters to Our Troops" contest in which heartfelt letters of thanks were enclosed with care packages to troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"The Rogers Family Company is pleased to announce this program, which is a small token of appreciation for our service members throughout the world," said Rogers Family Co.=2 0CEO Jon B. Rogers, who served as an officer in the U.S. Army. "We value our partnership with Operation Gratitude and its valuable effort to send reminders of home to service members."
This spring, the Rogers Family Company donated 45,000 coffee packets to Operation Gratitude's Patriotic Drive for service members. In total, the company has shipped approximately 300,000 bags of coffee to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and on ships at sea since 2005 when it launched its association with Operation Gratitude.
The "Support Our Troops" program is one of myriad social and environmental projects of the Rogers Family Company which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. In conjunction with this year's Earth Day, the company launched a ‘100-year tree planting program' to fight global warming. Under the program, the company will plant a native tree at one of its organic coffee farms on behalf of customers who join its online coffee clubs.
The family-owned company also produces a premium shade-grown coffee line under license from the National Audubon Society and certified by the Rainforest Alliance. In cooperation with farmers and help from partners and customers, the company's "Community Aid" program has completed hundreds of social and environmental projects. A few sample projects include building dozens of schools, approximately 1,000 houses as well as medical facilities, schools and day care centers for thousands of workers.
The Rogers Family Company was founded in 1979 by Princeton University graduate and ex-Revlon executive Jon B. Rogers and his wife Barbara Rogers. The company is one of the20 nation's leading importers and roasters of Fairly Traded" branded gourmet coffee and tea. All four of their adult children play a key role in the company that supplies its "Responsibly Grown/Fairly Traded" coffee and tea to customers worldwide. The company's divisions and brands include the Organic Coffee Company, San Francisco Bay Premium Gourmet Coffee, Pleasant Hill Farms, Café Jerusalem, Audubon Shade-Grown Coffee Coffee, East India Coffee & Tea, the Organic Tea Co. and Black Mountain Gold. It also sponsors coffee clubs: Java Perks on the Rogers Gourmet Coffee & Tea Market (www.gourmet-coffee.com) or Audubon Premium Shade-Grown Coffee (www.auduboncoffeeclub.com) online stores. With 150 employees, the company makes approximately 3,500 individual coffee and tea products. The company's roasting operations are in San Leandro and Lincoln, California.
Media can contact Jim Zelinski/Zelinski Public Relations at 925/242-0918, 415/420-6050 or jimz@zelinskipublicrelations.com for additional information, request a coffee farm tour, an interview or obtain video or photographs.
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