GRAND RAPIDS, MI — When Timothy Volkema listened a few years ago that Schuil Coffee Co. competence come on a market, he was peaceful to wait.
Volkema, 40, finally sealed on that understanding final month, appropriation a second-generation spit from Greta Schuil.
Schuil, who has been Grand Rapids company’s boss for dual decades, will support with a transition. Terms of a understanding were not disclosed
Her late parents, Garry and Gladys, launched a indiscriminate coffee spit in 1981, after spotting a flourishing trend in specialty coffees. The business was an tusk of Garry Schuil’s progressing career as a epicurean food attorney for stores via a Midwest.
The association will start a subsequent section underneath Volkema, a West Michigan local and entrepreneur, who recently returned to West Michigan with his mother and 3 school-age children.
“I’ve always been a ardent coffee drinker myself,” Volkema said. “This is my initial time to learn a nuts and bolts.”
The business’s 10-person workforce will remain, as Volkema works to make a transition as seamless and pure for customers.
He appreciates Schuil Coffee’s bequest as one of a initial Michigan companies to roast, package and sell specialty coffee beans.
It now reserve coffee and tea from around a universe on a indiscriminate basement to retailers, coffee shops and restaurants via a Midwest. The coffee is carried locally by retailers Forest Hills Foods, Kingma’s Market, Ken’s Fruit Market and Meijer stores.
Schuil Coffee operates a possess sell store offered freshly-roasted coffee beans and teas, baked goods, and brewing apparatus during a Grand Rapids roasting trickery and room during 3679 29th St. SE. Products can also be systematic online by a website during schuilcoffee.com.
While Schuil Coffee products have been accessible online for decades, Volkema sees room to urge a company’s e-commerce platforms.
The Calvin College grad’s work knowledge ranges from operative as a difficulty personality for Amazon in New York City to co-founding Kasa Indian Eateries in San Francisco. He many recently served as an handling partner during The Windquest Group, where he rubbed house governance issues and stepped into a purpose of halt arch selling officer of the biofeedback company, Neurocore.
The Grand Rapids holding association is owned by Amway successor Dick DeVos and his wife, Betsy. Earlier this year, she stepped away from a business to turn a U.S. Education Secretary.