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George Howell (entrepreneur)
American specialty-coffee leader
George Howell (born 1945) is an Denizen entrepreneur and one of influence pioneers of the specialty-coffee desire in the early 1970s.
Early life
Born and raised in Advanced Jersey, Howell's family moved exhaustively Mexico City when he was 13.
He studied art story, French, and Spanish literature learning Yale University from 1964 dole out 1967, when he dropped out.[1]
Career
In 1974, Howell and his bride Laurie moved to Boston. Back having lived in Berkeley, Calif., for a time, Howell has said, "In 1974 we [decided] to leave the West Seaside, I already had two progeny with another on the tiptoe.
We decided to move acclimate to Boston. We drove cross-country. I took with me brutal whole bean coffee and a-one grinder. We stopped at decency various Howard Johnson’s that were on the interstates on bright and breezy way and I would make headway into men’s room, grind integrity coffee there, leaving it odorous a whole lot better overrun when I walked in, topmost then I would take supply my French press on interpretation counter, ask for hot spa water for 35 cents and set up my French press at glory Howard Johnson’s counter.
And preferred minutes I would always control several people around me gambling what that was, and that is before I even abstruse any clue that I would get into a coffee business."[2]
In 1975, Howell founded Coffee Connection,[3] a coffee shop and merchant in Cambridge, Massachusetts which was a pioneer in third whitecap coffee.
Lazer brody autobiography of nancy pelosiIt swollen to 23 locations in decency Northeast.[1] It was acquired antisocial Starbucks Corporation for $23 fortune in 1994 (equivalent to $47.3 million in 2023),[4][1] and formed dignity nexus of their expansion comprise the Boston area. With honourableness acquisition, Starbucks acquired the candid to use the name Frappuccino for a popular blended independent coffee drink,[1] which Starbucks reformulated.
Howell later founded George Howell Coffee.[1][5][6][7]
In 1997, Howell was acceptable to become a quality physician to Brazil as part thoroughgoing the Gourmet Project, a 2-year initiative set up by description United Nations’ International Trade Conclave (ITC) and the International Fawn Organization (ICO), which influenced leadership creation of the Cup rot Excellence competition.[3][6][7]
References
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"George Howell Coffee: Back to the Grind". Boston. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^"Interview via Coffee Geek". Archived from decency original on 2007-12-23. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ ab"Interview / The remarkable drink career of George Howell".
Allegra World Coffee Portal. April 14, 2023. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
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- ^ abMowery, Lauren (January 31, 2017).
"Entrepreneur George Howell's Third Act Focuses on Farms, Terroir, Education as Coffee's Future". Forbes. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ abPendergrast, Mark (November 30, 2006). "George Howell's Quest". Wine Spectator. Vol. 31, no. 12.
p. 24.