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Seattle's Best Signs 16-Unit Pact

Seattle's Best Coffee has signed a deal with RTG Business Enterprises to open 16 stores in Austin and Waco, TX by 2006. Terms weren't divulged.

The agreement is to develop 13 cafes in the Austin area and three in Waco. The first cafe is planned to open by January 2002

in Austin.

"I look forward to expanding the Seattle's Best Coffee brand," says Robert Gleason, President of RTG Business Enterprises.

"We are pleased to start our partnership with RTG Business Enterprises, and begin developing Seattle's Best Coffee cafes in Texas," says Steve Schickler, president of Seattle Coffee Company. "The Austin area ranks high against the national average in brand recognition and specialty coffee drinkers."

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