coffee business strategies

In a story printed in today’s Pacific Business News, LION Coffee of Hawaii announced that it will launch an antioxidant-spiked coffee line on August 1st. Lion Coffee is introducing a new line of antioxidant-rich coffee called Pure Choices. The new line will use all-natural KonaRed Coffee Fruit in four flavors: original, French roast, coconut and [...]

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Friend and colleague Shawn Steiman scores high marks in this month’s Roast Magazine with The Points Principle, a point/counterpoint look at the 100-point cupping system and its alternatives, with rebuttal by Ken Davids of Coffee Review. I give the article a solid 92.

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It’s been 6 months or so since issuing my last company newsletter, so it has come time to admit that such a method of communication is no longer practical for my small business and discontinue the practice. What with all of my updates here on my blog, to Twitter and more frequently Facebook, there is [...]

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It’s a quiet and rainy Easter Sunday afternoon in Waimea, so I’m a little fidgety and decided to look up a few things online for one of my work projects. Nothing too taxing or requiring a great deal of concentration, but the sort of lazy and easily distracted online reading that is best done on [...]

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N. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Market Wire) October 26, 2009 – The Supreme Bean Coffee Roasters of North Hollywood, California has acquired Rocky Roaster, LLC, a wholesale coffee roasting business based in Canoga Park, California. Rocky Roaster Founder Mr. Rocky Rhodes will join The Supreme Bean team to manage the Rocky Roaster brand of coffee for the [...]

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