Single serve success – Farmer Brothers CEO Mike Keown
Farmer Brothers CEO Mike Keown tells GRC Magazine how the US coffee manufacturer is building for its next phase with sights on growth in the capsule industry
When Mike Keown first went on a corporate site visit to an undeveloped landscape in Texas, he knew he was standing on more than just an empty field.
The CEO of Farmer Brothers could clearly picture the half-million-square-foot office and distribution centre that will be the US company’s new headquarters in 2016.
For Keown, the move couldn’t come at a better time. With annual sales of more than half a billion dollars providing coffee, tea and culinary arts products to over 60,000 food and beverage outlets, the company has well outgrown its current 50-year-old home in California.
The US$40 million facility will certainly be ...