Caffitaly
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Espresso
Espresso is a concentrated beverage brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee. Espresso is widely known throughout the world....
and other coffee
Coffee
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drinks in home espresso machine
Espresso machine
An espresso machine is used to produce the traditional Italian coffee beverage called espresso.-History:The first machine for making espresso was built and patented by Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, who demonstrated a working example at the Turin General Exposition of 1884. He was granted patent no...
s. The name is a portmanteau of caffè, the Italian
Italian language
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word for coffee, and Italy
Italy
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.
Caffitaly was not developed by Gaggia but from Caffita System SPA and has been adopted by other manufacturers, notably Princess of the Netherlands
Netherlands
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, Germany
Germany
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's Tchibo
Tchibo
Tchibo is a German chain of coffee shops and cafés, also known for its weekly-changing range of other products. The latter includes: clothing, household items, electronics and electrical appliances...
and Israel
Israel
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i Espresso Club as well as Löfbergs Lila
Löfbergs Lila
Löfbergs Lila is a coffee roastery in Karlstad. It was founded in 1906 by the three brothers Josef, Anders and John Löfberg.Löfbergs Lila is today one of the largest coffee roasteries in the Nordic countries. The company is still family owned and is now in third and fourth generation. The main...
in Sweden
Sweden
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. It is similar in principle to the competing Nespresso
Nespresso
Nespresso is the brand name of Nestlé Nespresso S.A., an operating unit of the Nestlé Group based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Nespresso machines brew espresso from special capsules containing ground coffee.- History :...
and Tassimo
Tassimo
The Tassimo Hot Beverage System is a consumer coffee machine that prepares one-cup servings of espresso, regular coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and various other coffee drinks, notably those including milk such as latte or cappuccino....
capsule systems, in which a sealed capsule containing a premeasured amount of coffee is inserted into the machine, through which hot water is forced at high pressure into a coffee cup. The capsule can be disposed of easily once the coffee is made, and the machine requires little maintenance or cleaning.
Gaggia company does not use Caffitaly system anymore, recently they have joined with Illy spa for launching the new Gaggia Illy Capsule machines.
Like similar proprietary coffee-making systems, Caffitaly can be seen as an example of the razor and blades business model, in which the relatively low price of the coffeemaker is recouped through a higher profit margin on the coffee capsules it uses.
Caffita sponsored the Lampre-Caffita
Lampre-Fondital
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cycling
Cycling
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team in 2005.
Caffitaly Systems also produces the CBTL Capsule System for The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.