What is your position in the coffee industry?

manager

Where are you located? ( City and Country )

Superior, Wisconsin, United States

How many years have you been in the industry?

94

About Me:

I grew up working at this family owned business. I've been here full time since graduating with a degree in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1985. I live in Duluth, Minnesota. Working here is great, but I sure have a lot to learn.

About My Company:

At ARCO coffee, we specialize in gourmet and flavored coffee, roasted from the highest quality Arabica fruits. Since 1916, we’ve prided ourselves in being one of the top gourmet coffee companies in the business. While many coffee roasters prefer to use computerized roasters, we provide our customers with coffee that’s roasted the old-fashioned way. We control the time, temperature, and every other variable. This allows us to produce the most mouth-pleasing blends, agreeable to any palate. That's a tradition of excellence that expands over 93 years in roasting and blending premium coffee.

ARCO coffee is a family owned coffee roasting company located in the Twin Ports of Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin. ARCO coffee roasts and blends many flavors of gourmet coffee, including Norseman Grog, Tiramisu Amaretto, Bavarian Chocolate Raspberry, Caramel Macchiato, Danish Blend, Scandinavian Blend, Espresso, Mocha Mint, Spiced Orange Mocha, Sumatra Mandheling, Swiss Chocolate Almond, and several more.

ARCO coffee is committed to the advancement of organic coffee. Organic coffee plantations must follow strict rules governing application of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemical application. Organic coffees are also sometimes grown under the forest canopy by farmers committed to the quality of their crop. Fair Trade Coffee is coffee that is sold under a program by the same name. This program insures that farmers will receive at least a minimum price for a pound of coffee, allowing farmers to develop their communities by paying laborers a fair wage and still have enough left over to invest in their business. ARCO coffee offers of several rich blends of Fair Trade Organic Coffee, ranging from intense Brazilian blends to creamy Colombian flavors.

Most recently, we have been devoted to making our coffee-online store more accessible to our customers. Our website offers safe and easy way to purchase delicious coffee blends online. Customers can choose whether to buy by ounce or pound, caffeinated or decaffeinated. Either way, we promise to deliver satisfying coffee. If you have a coffee house and want to buy from us, we combine shipping to save and larger orders can ship prepaid.

What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?

People make the business.

Website:

http://www.arcocoffee.om