The Folgers coffee plant in New Orleans has resumed operating at full capacity after disruptions from Hurricane Katrina, and retailers should see supply return to normal by early December, a Procter & Gamble Co. vice president said on Thursday.

"Every single week since the hurricane has gotten better than the previous week," Doug McGraw, vice president of global coffee for P&G, told Reuters. "We've been allocating shipments by retailer and that allocation officially ends Dec. 1."

The New Orleans plant, the largest coffee-making facility in the country, produces more than 50 percent of P&G's coffee. P&G controls about 40 percent of the coffee market in the United States, the top coffee consuming nation.

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