coffee business strategies

In Specialty Coffee Retailer Magazine’s Ten Trends for 2010 this August, my comments on overseas expansion of the specialty coffee industry have ranked an impressive E-L-E-V-E-N. Rock on! “The majority of our company’s work has come from Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe in the past 2 years,” says coffee industry consultant Andrew Hetzel [...]

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I’m not an interior designer and have limited abilities with respect to to furnishings and color (I recently told my painter to “surprise me” when remodeling my house), so you can imagine my surprise to have been contacted back in March on the subject by Specialty Coffee Retailer magazine. Not only was I quoted in [...]

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…or alternatively this segment may be called “Letters from Lunatics.” Reading my work email this morning, the first business day of 2009, I was surprised and entertained to find the following: Good morning Dan @ SCR Happy new year and all that good stuff. As I have mentioned previously, I’m not in the coffee biz [...]

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