Flavia® The Café of Choice

I just wanted to post a little blurb about the company that I work for. Most people have not heard of our company, everyone has heard of M&M's, but that is not the division that I work in. I just get their free candy (which I don't need!)

We just recently went through a name change, so instead of Flavia, we are now Mars Drinks North America. Since "Flavia" is a brand, this was a good business decision to unify our names across all business units. Anyways, enough with the boring talk!

Here is a link to the MyFlavia Website where you can find information on our drinks.


Basically, though, it works like this. We are mostly a business to business driven company, so most of our sales are to office buildings, car dealerships, company lounges, etc. We offer a single serve coffee, tea & indulgent drink variety that is not "instant coffee" as some think, but fresh brewed drinks.

What is really nice about these drinks is that besides for being fresh (being exposed to oxygen only once through packaging) it is convenient. In one packet it contains its own filter, product, and nozzle. So this means that there is no cross-contamination from one drink to the next. You will not get hot chocolate residue in your next cup of green tea. Unlike the other machines that use the "pods" you have to clean the macine thoroughly or you will get the residue from the last drink. It really is an amazing product and it is delicious!


We do have at home brewers, they are called the Fusion and are available for purchase at any of these fine department stores (Macy's, Bloomingdales's, & Linen's & Things, in-store only). Remember if you are going to Linen's & Things you can use your 20% coupon!

Please check out our website and if you work in an office building where the coffee is never fresh or you like to have a variety of drinks to choose from then Flavia is for you! Please contact me if you would like to have a free trial in your office. We have reps all up and down the east coast (and for you New Englanders, we have an office in Boston)

I wrote this post because I am convinced that Flavia coffee is one of the best out there and I would like to share this with everyone!

Pictures from Our Trip

Here is the Photoshow of our pics from Europe. It has a really cheesy song, I couldn't figure out how to change it so I would suggest turning the volume down! Enjoy!

Europe 2007

Europe

Well, we are finally back! I never thought I would be so happy to land in Philadelphia Airport!! Saturday was a looong day! 11 hours total on a plane, 4 hrs sleep the night before, 6 hours sitting in an airport, and when we arrived in Philly, it was another 6 hours of time that we gained.

So, here is a rundown of our trip. We first went to Paris, France. John's sister Danielle went with us for the first week, so while John was working we got to go and see all of the sights.



Day 1
Mostly Travel, we lost 6 hours getting there, so we just unpacked, caught up on sleep, got room service and watched a movie

Day 2
Danielle and I went to the Musee D'Orsay (lots of Monet, Van Gogh, etc.), had lunch at an awesome cafe and figured out the Paris Metro system (their subway)


Day 3
Danielle and I took a full day tour of the Louvre (where the Mona Lisa, Turkish bath, etc. is), Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower. We had lunch in the Tour de Eiffel restaurant Altitude 95, very nice view. I got a drawing of myself outside of Notre Dame by one of the street artists, ver cool!



Day 4
Relaxed in the morning, John came back from work early and we went to a nice restaurant down the street, drank wine

Day 5
Eurodisney, or Disneyland Paris as it is called now. VERY BAD! Do not go to this place! IF I was Disney, I would be ashamed to have this park under my name

Day 6
Unfortunately for John, this was his last day to get a chance to see all of the sights and it rained. We did manage to take the Bat-O-Bus (a boat/bus that runs down the Seine river and stops at all of the tourist spots) and walked around the Eiffel tower with him




Day 7
Danielle gets her flight home :-(, we take a plane to Dusseldorf, Germany
Arrived in Remscheid, Germany, met up with John's co-worker Adrian, had dinner at the hotel

Day 8
Lounged around in the morning, finished my book, walked around the town
John came back from his meeting, we went out to dinner with the Faiveley Transport Group



Day 9
Packed up, left for the airport in the afternoon (glad to leave Remscheid, it is a stinky, smokey, dirty little town!) Flew from Dusseldorf to Copenhagen Denmark
Arrived in Denmark, took train to Landskrona, Sweden. Pretty cool, we took a train across the ocean.


Day 10
I took a walk around Landskrona in the morning. It is beautiful, right on the Baltic Sea. I took a boat over to the little island of Ven, very nice. John and I went out to dinner with the Faiveley grpup. Good times, great people! ALso, most of them spoke English which was a plus!

Day 11
John and I hung out, we met up with his co-worker Yohan (John in Swedish) and his fiancee. The four of us went out to dinner and for some drinks.



Day 12
Travel back to US, boy has this been a long trip!!

So that was a shortened version of my diary from the trip! I wanted to keep a diary for our kids to read someday. I remember reading my Memmy's from all of the trips that she'd taken and I just loved reading all of the stories!

Here are some more pics...

"On the road again..."

My first try at using a song title for my blog entry!

I told you all I had a valid excuse for not updating my blog! For the past three weeks, I have been traveling almost every day for work. Thankfully, except for our own personal trip to Europe in a few weeks, I will not have to do any more traveling for awhile!

I haven't been to many cool places these past few weeks, except for McLean, VA (our company headquarters) which is right outside of DC and our Masterfoods plant in Hackettstown NJ where they make the plain & peanut M&M's (nothing like a fresh M&M right off the production line - even without the candy coating!)

I was also working at out Mt. Olive office, where our Information Systems International business unit it (not as interesting!)

The nice thing was that John was able to accompany me to McLean, VA because her has some customers in DC, sp that was nice, especially because my company put us up at the Ritz-Carlton (boy did we feel a little out of place!) It was the nicest hotel I've ever stayed in! I will post a few pictures of the suite we had there.



Anyways, next week I am finally in the office all week, very happy about that (along with all of the employees I serve!) It's nice when you work in HR and feel needed as much as we do!

I also took the boys to the zoo this past weekend, so I will definitely report on that tomorrow!

Dream Job!

Since some of you have been asking me how my job search is going, I am pleased to let everyone know that I received a job offer this past week with Flavia (they are a division of M&M Mars) in West Chester. I couldn't of asked to work for a better company, from an onsite gym, free medical coverage, nice PTO policy, not to mention they sent me a Flavia drink station upon my acceptance of their offer!

I am finally where I want to be in my career, this job search (and waiting, patiently) has certainly paid off! I definitely would not make a very good stay-at-home mother/wife (John would agree)! It is also my passion for chocolate & coffee that has me excited to work for a place that manufactures both!

On another note, demolition of our kitchen/dining room is going on beneath me as I type this blog entry. I snapped a few pics for the "before" it probably won't be until next weekend for the "after" pics. Our contractor is coming to install the cabinets on Tuesday.