Juan Valdez Cafe opens first store in Dominican Republic

[Dolores]

With long lines in Agora Mall, the first Juan Valdez Café store opened in Santo Domingo this week. The Colombian coffee chain store is part of a strategic partnership with local franchisee United Brands, which expects to open another two outlets in the DR by the end of this year. One of these will be at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), targeting the younger demographic.

The Juan Valdez Café shop will compete with the market leader Café Santo Domingo with stores in most leading malls. The US coffee leading brand, Starbucks has seven stores in Santo Domingo.

Juan Valdez operates 368 stores in Colombia and has opened outlets in several Latin American markets, including Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Aruba and Curacao.

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[M4kintosh]

Coffee wars:

- Starbucks opening agressively in Santo Domingo
- Cafe Santo Domingo making partnerships at large and expanding, too
- And now Juan Valdez

@NALs

 

[windeguy]

Maxwelll House makes it to the DR? I remember Juan Valdez in those TV commercials when growing up:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-valdez-ab739b2b/

 

[JD Jones]

Maxwelll House makes it to the DR? I remember Juan Valdez in those TV commercials when growing up:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-valdez-ab739b2b/

God, we're that old, aren't we?

 

[PJT]

God, we're that old, aren't we?

"Hand picked by Juan Valdez"

Regards,

PJT

 

[JD Jones]

"Juan Valdez is a creation of the Colombian Federation of Coffee Growers (called the FNC or Fedecafe). This Federation was started in 1927 to protect and promote the coffee industry in Colombia."

Who is Juan Valdez? - Flavors of Bogota

Juan Valdez is the most famous coffee grower ever. But who is Juan Valdez? Does this coffee grower represent something larger than himself?

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[bob saunders]

La Sirena sells Juan Valdez coffee, but it is very expensive.

 

[NanSanPedro]

"Hand picked by Juan Valdez"

Regards,

PJT

I remember that. I thought he would have retired by now. He was no spring chicken back then.

 

[Manuel01]

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Everything that takes a buck or two away from starbucks is warmly welcomed by me.

 

[windeguy]

Everything that takes a buck or two away from starbucks is warmly welcomed by me.

You can say that again in spades. Starbucks sucks almost as bad as Santo Domingo(the city, not the coffee) does, but not quite.

 

[Tom0910]

La Sirena sells Juan Valdez coffee, but it is very expensive.

It's expensive here in Colombia too.