Lavazza to Buy $250 Million Stake in Green Mountain

Not sure what this means, but I just saw this article on Bloomberg BusinessWeek and it seems that Green Mountain and Lavazza may be teaming up.    Could be that Lavazza Espresso will get quickly bigger in the US or that Keurig / Green Mountain will get bigger in Europe.   

My guess is that this will be a pretty powerful partnership. 

In the last three years, Green Mountain Corporation has taken direct control of the following  Keurig K-cup producers and manufacturers. 

• Keurig Premium Brewing Systems
• Tully's Coffee (K-cups and Office Coffee products)
• Timothy's World Coffee (including Emeril's Coffee K-cups)
• Diedrich Coffee Roasters (including Coffee People and Gloria Jean's Coffee)