NEW YORK (Reuters) - JAB Holding Co has reached a agreement to buy U.S. single-serve coffee company Keurig Green Mountain Inc (GMCR.O), the latest in a spate of deals that has expanded the Luxembourg-based private investor's caffeine empire. This is the largest coffee acquisition by JAB, which is controlled by Germany's billionaire Reimann family. It bought Mondelez International's (MDLZ.O) Europe-focused coffee business in July for around $4 billion, combining it with DE Master Blenders, which it had bought for about $10 billion, to create the world's largest pure-play coffee company. With Keurig, JAB would expand its U.S. market presence substantially after its Peet's Coffee & Tea unit...
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