Promise in US coffee pods but patent uncertainty dogs Green Mountain – analyst
date:Jun 07, 2012
pods as a market are here to stay,Feliciano added.

Scratched the surface

Pods had onlyscratched the surfacein the US, Feliciano said, despite retail volume growth of 523% from 2006 to 2011 and movement from niche product to workplace and household mainstay.

He added:While pod penetration is still relatively low compared with other types of coffee in the US, single serve coffee pod machines now account for 20% of total volume sales, up from 4% in 2006.

Machine sales themselves were also predi
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