by andrew | Feb 18, 2008 | events, marketing, news, retail, starbucks
Starbucks announced as a part of its restructuring and sweeping return to its roots that the business would close for 3 hours worldwide to retrain its baristas, which is when the idea hit us and I wrote this press release for my client at Coffee Klatch: San Dimas,...
by andrew | Feb 18, 2008 | competitions, events, news, retail
February is the month of coffee and love with Valentine’s Day and Specialty Coffee month sharing the stage. And that coffee love is blooming at Silicon valley’s Barefoot Coffee Roasters. Barefoot is hosting Guatemalan National Barista Champion Noe Castro...
by andrew | Feb 16, 2008 | industry, retail
Alisa Morkides of Delaware’s Brew HaHa! chain writes about Coffee’s Third Wave in the January 2008 issue of Delaware Out and About. Jim is a bit of a geek, and his multiple tattoos and piercings are somewhat unsettling to customers. But he knows his...
by andrew | Feb 9, 2008 | news, retail
In the January 21st issue of Delaware’s The News Journal, writer Gary Harbor profiles coffee businesses that are thriving around the State in the article No Ordinary Joe, including our friends at local chain Brew Ha Ha!. A local chain grows In 1993, Alisa...
by andrew | Feb 7, 2008 | industry, news, retail
Tully’s Coffee Corp. today scrapped its beleaguered plans to go public. Frankly, I was amazed that they were going to attempt to go public now anyway; good to see that I was not the only one that considered taking a money-losing company that has had a string of...
by andrew | Jan 31, 2008 | business, news, retail, starbucks
In the company’s best business move in years, Starbucks has nixed their breakfast sandwiches in order to stop pretending to be McDonald’s and return back to their core expertise: coffee. So far today, Wall Street does not seem to understand the move, but...
