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VERENA STREET COFFEE COMPANY
VERENA STREET COFFEE COMPANY. In 2009 Eric Gantz and Mike Gantz, cousins, became co-owners of Verena Street Coffee Company. Roasting Solutions, the parent company of Verena Street Coffee Co., was a privately-held, family-owned organization founded in December, 2010. (1) The company was located in a small building near the intersection of U. S. 52 and the Northwest Arterial, near where Verena Street was once located and the Gantz family lived. In 2010 Verena Street branding and product development began, Roasting equipment was obtained and installed, and production began in late December with products due for delivery in January, 2011. (2) The company purchased their beans from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms. (3)
In January 2016 the company announced that it was constructing a 34,000-square-foot facility on a 12.03 acre parcel in the Dubuque Industrial Center South on the north side of Seippel Road. The business had outgrown its former site. In 2016 the company's coffee was sold in 700 grocery stores in the Midwest including Hy-Vee, Fareway, Sam's Club, and Jewel-Osco. (4)
See: LIME ROCK SPRINGS COMPANY
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Source:
1. "Verena Street Coffee Company," Website: http://www.verenastreet.com/?page_id=14
2. Montgomery, Jeff. "Cup Overflows for Coffee Company," Telegraph Herald, January 3, 2016, p 1
3. "Verena Street..."
3. Ibid.