Roasting

Portland’s Futura Coffee Roasters Brings Regenerative Focus to East Coast

With direct ties to Colombian specialty coffee and a proactive economic approach to environmental stewardship, Oregon-based Futura Coffee Roasters has expanded to the east coast. The growing Futura leadership team...

2023.12.21

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Wyoming’s Pine Coffee Supply Spruces Up the Boise Coffee Scene

Pine Coffee Supply, a quality-obsessive coffee company born in small-town Wyoming, has found a second home in the relatively big city of Boise, Idaho. The Pinedale, Wyoming-based coffee roasting company...

2023.12.20

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Japan’s Geshary Coffee Buys Manhattan Building for $38 Million

Japanese coffee company Geshary Coffee has closed on a Fifth Avenue property in New York City for $38 million, with plans to occupy the building. The purchase of the five-story...

2023.12.20

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The Sepia Coffee Project Offers a Guiding Light in Metro Detroit

When Martell Mason returned to metro Detroit in 2020, he found a more hopeful place than the one he’d left 20 years earlier. Yet when he zoomed in on his...

2023.12.20

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Mill City Roasters Launches 2-Kilo Electric Roaster, the MCR-2E

Minneapolis-based roasting equipment maker Mill City Roasters has launched the MCR-2E, the company’s largest and most advanced electric-heat roaster to date. The 2-kilo-capacity MCR-2E pairs UL-listed 5,000 watt heating elements...

2023.12.20

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Chobani Buys La Colombe Coffee for $900 Million

New York State-based packaged yogurt giant Chobani has acquired Philadelphia-born coffee company La Colombe for $900 million. The deal follows nearly a decade’s worth of interest in the coffee company...

2023.12.16

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Mill City Roasters Launches RoastPath Software and Sharing Platform

Minneapolis-based coffee roasting equipment company Mill City Roasters this month officially launched RoastPath, a software package and community-focused platform for coffee roasters that’s six years in the making. Core features...

2023.12.15

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Legal Dispute Between Montana Coffee Traders and Ghost Town Goes Public

A legal issue that has quietly simmered between two Montana coffee roasting companies since May spilled into the public sphere this week, with both companies saying they’ve received negative backlash....

2023.12.14

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Greenstreet Coffee Replants Itself in South Philadelphia

The retail operations of Philadelphia roasting company Greenstreet Coffee are verdant once again with the opening of a new South Philadelphia cafe just blocks away from the Greenstreet roastery. Helping...

2023.12.14

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Juju’s Coffee Charms East Dallas with New Roastery Cafe

A young North Texas coffee company called Juju’s Coffee has channeled the retro appeal of its 1962 Airstream trailer for its first brick-and-mortar roastery cafe in East Dallas. A bright...

2023.12.13

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