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Date Posted: 17:14:08 02/17/00 Thu
Author: Anonymous
Subject: http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/Re: Starbucks...more food for thought
In reply to: 's message, "Starbucks...more food for thought" on 16:55:29 02/17/00 Thu

> You mention Starbucks and their relationship with > Guatemala > The finest coffee in the world is grown right there in > PNG. Know one of the main reasons it does not get the > same attention as that of Guatemala? You don't grow > enough of it to make it worth while. Know why you > don't grow enough? Because in order to do this you > need critical management of agriculture. A company > like Starbucks isn't going to establish a business in > a country where the promises to get certain things > done in a timely manner are never kept. You sell the > hell out of your trees for lumber. Isolation doesn't > stop that process. You have a lot of trees because God > put them there. If the world depended on the New > Guineans to grow and culture them you wouldn't have > that industry either.

Boy it sure sounds like somebody pissed in your Cheerios this morning! The purpose of this place is to put out ideas that can be useful. Any clown can look for the weak spots and make fun of them. If all you want to do is bash PNG I guess it's your right. What the post you responded to said was that the Starbucks/Guatemala arraingment mentioned in the first post is the KIND of thing to do and that just copying what worked someplace else isn't good enough. But it looks like Guatemala is getting more for its coffee by virtue of the value added by the Starbuck marketing people than they would get selling it on the open market as generic beans. The point of the article is to suggest that money be invested in developing countries using the same criteria as would be used to evaluate a new business anyplace else and that if the developing countries lack the skills to develop sound business plans then it would benefit investors and would-be investors to help them get those skills.

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