https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/company-news/people-company-news/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:43:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/13/lax-narasimhan-out-as-starbucks-ceo-chipotles-brian-niccol-in/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:43:39 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181792 Less than a year-and-a-half after permanently replacing Howard Schultz as the CEO of Starbucks, Laxman Narasimhan is stepping down.  Beginning Sept. 9, Brian Niccol, the chairman and CEO of Chipotle,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/31/upper-michigan-trailblazer-velodrome-coffee-acquired-by-mqt-hospitality/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:41:01 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181459 Upper Michigan-based Velodrome Coffee Company has been acquired by MQT Hospitality, the owner of Marquette-based 231 West Patisserie and the Cruisin’ Coffee. The MQT businesses had been longstanding clients of...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/29/listen-up-girlsplaining-is-growing-coming-to-bolivia-peru-and-us/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:04:40 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181374 The grassroots coffee community-building and education group Girlsplaining (Instagram) is expanding with more events in more countries, amplifying the voices of professional women in coffee. Created initially by Ecuadorian coffee...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/22/el-salvador-president-bukele-launches-coffee-brand-with-us-business-ties/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:29:14 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181224 El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has launched a new high-end coffee brand called Bean of Fire, targeting the United States market for sales.  The exact connection between Bukele, the brand...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/18/three-questions-with-coffee-and-beverage-expert-piper-jones/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:14:25 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180935 Anyone spotting Piper Jones at the recent International Women’s Coffee Alliance convention in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, likely found her genuinely listening, deeply engaged in a one-on-one conversation, almost in awe...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/12/brazilian-pilot-and-illinois-coffee-entrepreneur-juliana-turchetti-dies-fighting-fire/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:56:59 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181069 Juliana Turchetti, a trailblazing Brazilian aerial firefighter and owner of Springfield, Illinois-based Aviatori Coffee, died Wednesday while fighting a fire in Montana. Working on behalf of Idaho-based company Dauntless Air,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/09/swiss-coffee-trader-arrested-in-guatemala-on-tax-charges/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:54:39 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180971 A Swiss coffee trader is currently under house arrest in Guatemala following charges of tax fraud, according to numerous Swiss and Guatemalan media reports. Neither Swiss nor Guatemalan authorities have...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/02/four-new-world-coffee-champions-from-world-of-coffee-copenhagen/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:40:27 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180844 Four more 2024 world coffee champions were crowned at the World of Coffee trade show in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week. Designed to celebrate different coffee skills and barista innovation, the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/27/chicago-entrepreneur-and-mall-coffee-icon-gloria-jean-kvetco-has-died/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:44:25 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180757 Gloria Jean Kvetko, the Chicagoland entrepreneur who founded Gloria Jean’s Coffee in 1979, died on June 14 at the age of 82. Born in Chicago in 1941, Kvetko’s first entrepreneurial...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/20/three-questions-with-vikram-patel-of-png-focused-benchmark-coffee-traders/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:15:38 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180272 After passing the Illinois state bar, Vikram Patel practiced law for two years. During that time, he was also sowing the seeds of a green coffee business that has since...]]>