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The result was speedy keep. Nom withdrawn with no remaining delete votes. WP:SK, #1. Protonk (talk) 03:18, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tchibo[edit]

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Non-notable company. Interesting story of rise and fall, corporate restructuring, etc., but I can't find multiple substantial references to this thing and its claims of notability sound like generic market-fluff and aren't cited. DMacks (talk) 16:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Editorial note: Article subject to COI spam and related vandalism lately. Not a reason to delete, but check history to make sure you're reading an encyclopediac version of this article rather than an ad. DMacks (talk) 16:09, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Revert to this revision and keep. This can be sourced from Google News (see link above). -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 16:47, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. The network (under Tchibo and Eduscho brands) is omnipresent in German-speaking countries. 12000 employees and 3.6 bn euro sales in Germany alone. Coffee itself could be better, though. NVO (talk) 17:45, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- P.S. DMacks, check your firewall. The first search at the first newspaper site brings 87 hits [1]. Some are duds, some spot on: [2]. NVO (talk) 17:50, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep 17,200 google news hits obviously notable. Ikip (talk) 18:29, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, one of Germany's most important coffee companies and extremely well-known brand. — Kusma ^talk 18:54, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Appears to meet notability criterion, using google news. -Marcusmax(speak) 19:24, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per NVO, and also agree the coffee could be better. Skäpperöd (talk) 19:34, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The company may not be known in the US (unsurprising as it doesn't trade there) but it is a well-known (i.e. notable) firm in Europe. However the article was not well written. I have carried out an initial revision to improve the style, but it really needs some proper references. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Tchibo is an institution in Germany. 7-figure Google hits. --Boson (talk) 21:35, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. -- Cybercobra (talk) 06:28, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. -- Cybercobra (talk) 06:29, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. -- Cybercobra (talk) 06:29, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw. Without speaking German or having certain books available, the now-included refs that strongly support corp-notability aren't available to me. DMacks (talk) 17:43, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per arguments of others, this does seem to be quite notable, plenty of news mention of it. I'd like to remind the nominator, its best not to send something to the AFD before checking Google and Google news for it. [3] Please do so in the future. Dream Focus 01:49, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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