coffee business strategies

A 2009 retrospective in February 2010, you ask? Well, I’ve been hard at work for the last 6 weeks or so (which you will see in the 2010 wrap-up), so it’s going to have to do. What, you want a refund? This is my second annual year in review, started in 2008 and inspired by [...]

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Bangalore (October 6, 2009) – Coffees from Kaapi Royale Coffee of Magundi, India received three of the four highest cupping scores awarded in the October 2009 edition of Coffee Review. “India provides some of the world’s most valuable coffee types for espresso blends, yet these same exotic coffee types are seldom offered as single origins,” [...]

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Fresh off of their Oprah appearance this past Friday, our friends at Zingerman’s were featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition this Sunday, May 11th. In 1982, Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig opened Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, Mich. After 26 years, they have built an empire called Zingerman’s Community of Businesses that Inc. magazine called “The [...]

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The Detroit Free Press checks in with Zingerman’s co-founder Paul Saginaw to discuss what’s been happening lately at this American food landmark and what might come next: What’s cooking at Zingerman’s these days? New ideas, that’s what, says Paul Saginaw, one of the founders of the amazingly successful Ann Arbor deli that has evolved into [...]

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