ADVISORY/Van Houtte Announces a Major Acquisition as Well as Strong Third Quarter Results.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Feb. 7) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Graphics, Corporate Logo, Text --(BUSINESS WIRE) Van Houtte Van Houtte Inc. (TSX: VH) is a company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that processes, distributes and sells coffee and related products. France-born Albert-Louis Van Houtte (1877–1944)[1] emigrated to Canada in 1912. Inc. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :VH.) announces that it has reached an agreement with USRefresh, a subsidiary of US Office Products Co., to acquire all of its Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. , and a large part of its U.S. coffee service business. Through this acquisition scheduled to close mid-February 2001, Van Houtte will integrate 26 traditional coffee service branches: 16 located across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and 10 in Canada. This network employs 265 people, serves some 12,000 customers and achieves Cdn $50 million in annual sales. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?1999 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news or information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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