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Stumptown Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster and retailer based in Portland, Oregon, United States. The chain's flagship cafe and roastery on SE 45th and Division opened in 1999. Three other cafes, a roastery and a tasting annex have since opened in Portland as well as two locations in Seattle, two in New York and one in Los Angeles. In August 2012, the company moved its headquarters to a building in Portland's Central Eastside Industrial District. On October 6, 2015 it was announced that Peet's Coffee was buying Stumptown. Peet's Coffee is itself a part of JAB Holding Company of Luxembourg, owners of coffee companies Caribou and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, as well as luxury brands such as Jimmy Choo. It is expected that Stumptown will benefit from Peet's expertise at logistics as the company grows larger.〔NY Times (Peet’s Buys Stumptown Coffee Roasters )〕 ==Business model== The business practices and quality standards of Stumptown Coffee Roasters have led to them being recognized as having "revolutionized the coffee business" and helped "refine coffee drinkers' palates" in Portland. Founder Duane Sorenson and Stumptown Coffee Roasters have been credited as being part of the third wave of coffee movement. Sorenson, and his employees, in pursuit of the best quality coffee spends considerable time visiting farms in person and is willing to pay high prices for coffee he deems worthy—occasionally three or four times the fair trade price. He once set the record for highest price ever paid for coffee beans. Sorenson is known for forming lasting relationships with coffee producers. The owner has offered atypical perks to his employees such as paying for a compilation album to be produced of their various bands, and hiring a full-time on-staff massage therapist. They have received numerous awards, including ''Roaster of the Year 2006''.〔 In 2011 Stumptown took on a large investment from private equity fund TSG Consumer Partners in New York, including re-registering the business under TSG in the state of Oregon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Documents Show Shift Atop Stumptown Coffee )〕 Stumptown is now registered as a Delaware corporation.〔 This led many to declare that Stumptown had sold out, despite assurances that Sorenson was technically still running the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Has Stumptown Coffee been sold? )〕 As of February 2013, Joth Ricci of Jones Soda Co. is now the acting president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Longtime soda and beverage executive Joth Ricci has taken over as president of Stumptown Coffee Roasters. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stumptown Coffee Roasters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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