CANTON, Mass., April 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- With warmer
weather on the way, Dunkin' Donuts, America's all-day, everyday
stop for coffee and baked goods, is teeing up delicious new iced
tea beverages to help guests stay refreshed all spring and summer.
Leading off the brand's lineup of new iced tea choices, Dunkin'
Donuts today launched Iced Green Tea, as well as a cool and unique
variety of fruity flavors of its freshly brewed Iced Tea, including
Blueberry, Raspberry and Peach. All are now available at
participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants nationwide for a limited
time.
For guests seeking a new iced tea blend, Dunkin' Donuts' freshly
brewed Iced Green Tea offers pure and simple refreshment, with
healthy antioxidants to help people feel renewed any time of day.
Dunkin' Donuts' Iced Green Tea features the Rainforest Alliance
Certified™ seal, and contains 30% tea sourced from Rainforest
Alliance Certified farms that are managed according to rigorous
environmental, social and economic criteria. The Rainforest
Alliance is an international nonprofit organization that works to
conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods.
Rainforest Alliance certification helps to protect wildlife;
safeguard soils and waterways; and improve quality of life for
workers, their families and local communities in order to achieve
true, long-term sustainability.
To help celebrate the launch of Dunkin' Donuts' new Iced Green
Tea, Dunkin' Brands today announced a $50,000 grant to the Rainforest Alliance. Since
2010, Dunkin' Brands has granted a total of $220,000 to the Rainforest Alliance to fund
future training projects to assist coffee and tea farmers seeking
to improve the sustainability and productivity of their farms
through Rainforest Alliance certification.
Dunkin' Donuts' Blueberry, Raspberry and Peach flavors put a
fruity and fresh twist on Iced Tea, giving guests a fun and
refreshing way to personalize and customize their favorite
beverage. All of Dunkin' Donuts' delicious freshly brewed Iced Teas
are made-to-order, unsweetened or sweetened. With five calories per
16 ounce serving, a small Dunkin' Donuts unsweetened Iced Tea also
offers a crisp, cold and convenient better-for-you beverage
option.
"Our freshly brewed Iced Tea has become a favorite choice with
our guests for fresh and flavorful refreshment that perfectly
complements our all-day snacks and bakery sandwiches," said
John Costello, President, Global
Marketing and Innovation at Dunkin' Brands. "We're excited to now
offer Iced Green Tea and fun new Iced Tea flavors to give our
guests more beverage options and continue to enhance our leadership
in this increasingly popular beverage category."
In addition to its work with the Rain Forest Alliance, all of
the farms from which Dunkin' Donuts sources its tea are members of
the Ethical Tea Partnership, a nonprofit organization established
to help build a thriving tea industry that is socially just and
environmentally sustainable. For more information on Dunkin'
Brands sustainability efforts see the company's most recent
corporate social responsibility report at
http://bit.ly/1mxtsr6.
To learn more about Dunkin' Donuts,
visit www.DunkinDonuts.com or follow us on Facebook
(www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts) and Twitter
(www.twitter.com/DunkinDonuts).
About Dunkin' Donuts
Founded in 1950, Dunkin' Donuts is America's favorite all-day,
everyday stop for coffee and baked goods. Dunkin' Donuts is a
market leader in the hot regular/decaf/flavored coffee, iced
coffee, donut, bagel and muffin categories. Dunkin' Donuts has
earned the No. 1 ranking for customer loyalty in the coffee
category by Brand Keys for eight
years running. The company has nearly 11,000 restaurants in 33
countries worldwide. Based in Canton,
Mass., Dunkin' Donuts is part of the Dunkin' Brands Group,
Inc. (Nasdaq: DNKN) family of companies. For more information,
visit www.DunkinDonuts.com.
About The Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is a global nonprofit that
works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping
them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host
travelers. From large multinational corporations to small,
community-based cooperatives, businesses and consumers worldwide
are involved in the Rainforest Alliance's efforts to bring
responsibly produced goods and services to a global marketplace
where the demand for sustainability is growing steadily. For more
information, visit
www.rainforest-alliance.org.
Contact:
Heather
McIntyre
Dunkin' Brands
781-737-5200
heather.mcintyre@dunkinbrands.com
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