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Nonprofit HRNS Enters New Era as Longtime Director Michael Opitz Steps Down

Hamburg, Germany-based nonprofit Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has named Karen Hadem as a managing director alongside Jens Sorgenfrei, as longtime managing director Michael Opitz steps down after more than...

2026.07.02

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Nonprofit HRNS Enters New Era as Longtime Director Michael Opitz Steps Down

Hamburg, Germany-based nonprofit Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has named Karen Hadem as a managing director alongside Jens Sorgenfrei, as longtime managing director Michael Opitz steps down after more than...

2026.07.02

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The San Franciscan Roaster Company is Under New Ownership

Nevada-based San Franciscan Roaster Company is under new ownership and leadership, with food manufacturing executive Dave Marson buying the company and Matthew Sewell named CEO. The financial terms of the...

2026.06.29

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Three Questions with Kosta Kallivrousis of Age of Coffee

Driven by a desire to connect with more people and pushed in part by the 2008 financial crisis, Kosta Kallivrousis left his father’s electrician business to take a job at...

2026.04.17

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Keurig Taps JDE Peet’s CEO Rafael Rafael Oliveira to Lead Coffee Company

Keurig Dr Pepper has completed its acquisition of JDE Peet’s while naming JDE Peet’s CEO Rafael Oliveira to lead the combined coffee business and eventually helm the planned spinoff...

2026.04.01

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NBA’s Corey Kispert Launches The Bitter Truth Coffee Company

NBA sharpshooter Corey Kispert has launched a new coffee brand called The Bitter Truth Coffee Company, pairing fresh roasts with words of inspiration from lessons learned on and off...

2026.03.31

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Three Questions with Mike Mamo of Addis Exporter

As a world-class runner attending college in the United States, Mike Mamo had little inclination to join his family’s coffee business, Addis Exporter, founded by his father in Ethiopia. “I...

2026.03.26

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California Coffee Coffee Pioneers Jay and Kristen Ruskey Mourned

John “Jay” Ruskey and Kristen Ruskey, the married couple behind Good Land Organics and pioneers in the California-grown specialty coffee movement through Frinj Coffee, died on Sunday, Feb. 8, in...

2026.02.13

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Best of ‘Three Questions’ 2025: Conversations with Coffee Innovators

Some coffee careers start the “classic” way — behind a bar, learning the rhythm of service and operations. Others arrive by detour, through architecture and urban planning, coral conservation research,...

2025.12.29

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Bill Kennedy, San Franciscan Roaster Owner and Educator, Dies

San Franciscan Roaster Co. announced the death of owner, president and CEO Bill Kennedy, a former school principal who later championed small roasters and U.S. manufacturing. “The loss of Bill...

2025.12.12

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