Business Operations

Futura Coffee Expands to Corvallis with Tried & True Acquisition

Portland, Oregon-based coffee roasting and retail company Futura Coffee Roasters has acquired the two coffee shop locations of Tried & True Coffee in Corvallis, plus Tried & True sibling company...

2024.05.30

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With Donuts, Take Two Coffee Doubles the Joy in Fort Myers

Now offering dual delights in Southwest Florida is Take Two Coffee, a specialty coffee roasting and baking company founded by a pair of influential coffee pros. Caleb MacPherson and Hunter...

2024.05.22

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8th and Roast Acquires Roaster Good Citizen Coffee in Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee-based specialty coffee roaster and retailer 8th and Roast has acquired award-winning Nashville roasting company Good Citizen Coffee Co. In an announcement of the acquisition today, 8th & Roast...

2024.05.17

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Stumptown Coffee Opens Anew in Downtown Portland

As it turns 25 years old this year, pioneering Portland, Oregon-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters has renewed its commitment to its home city with the opening of a downtown Portland cafe....

2024.05.15

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Klatch Coffee Opening Five New Shops Inside Sprouts Stores

Southern California-based specialty coffee roaster and retailer Klatch Coffee plans to exponentially increase its retail footprint in 2024, with the first of five new stores soon to open inside a...

2024.05.15

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This World Bee Day, a Touch of Honey Could Help Coffee Producers

If you like coffee, you’d better dang well like bees, too. Study after study after study has highlighted the symbiotic relationships between bees and coffee ecosystems, particularly as they translate...

2024.05.14

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Blue Bottle Coffee Workers Vote 38-4 to Unionize in Boston

Workers at all six of the Boston-area locations of specialty coffee roaster/retailer Blue Bottle Coffee voted 38-4 to unionize following a successful petition to the National Labor Relations Board. Should...

2024.05.09

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Through Sound, Scientists Transform Espresso Machine Into Quick Cold Brewer

Researchers in Australia have successfully converted a home espresso machine into a sonic reactor that they say can produce desirable cold brew in mere minutes, as opposed to a period...

2024.05.08

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Mundo Novo Enters the World of Automatic Pourovers

A new coffee equipment maker called Mundo Novo launched at this month’s SCA Expo in Chicago, offering an automated manual-style pourover brewing machine for cafes and offices. [See DCN’s complete 2024...

2024.04.29

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Ryan Wilbur and Laila Ghambari Buy Portland’s Guilder and Junior’s Roasted Coffee

Portland, Oregon-area coffee professionals Ryan Wilbur and Laila Ghambari have purchased the progressive and influential sibling coffee businesses, Guilder and Junior’s Roasted Coffee. The married couple plans to maintain existing...

2024.04.27

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