In the last few decades, we have seen an increase in the
appreciation for high-quality, gourmet coffee as evidenced by the abundance of
specialty coffee shops popping up in every neighborhood across the country and
across the entire world.
Gloria Jean’s Coffee was
one of the first coffee shops that started this worldwide trend when Gloria
Jean and Ed Kvetko bought a small gift shop in the northern part of Chicago in
1979 and converted it into a quaint little coffee shop where they served their
own brand of gourmet coffee. Their unique coffee blends were reason enough for
the small company to expand in just a small period of time. In the middle of
the 80s, the company began franchising, and soon more and more Gloria Jean’s
coffee shops opened up in the rest of the US.
Sixteen years after the Kvetkos opened up their first coffee shop,
Australian businessman and coffee connoisseur, Nabi Saleh and his business
partner Peter Irvine got their taste of Gloria Jean’s coffee when they were in
the US on a business trip. Saleh was so impressed with the quality of the
coffee concoctions that he decided to take the brand to their homeland. After
acquiring the franchise to open Gloria Jean’s stores in Australia, they decided
to take it a step further and acquired the International branding rights to
Gloria Jean’s Coffee which spans every other country around the world except
for the United States and Puerto Rico. Under Sale and Irvine, Gloria Jean’s
became a household name when it comes to delicious gourmet coffee all over the
world.
In the US, Gloria Jean’s Coffee has over a hundred stores in the US
and its international counterpart has over a thousand stores spread around 39
countries, including almost 500 stores in Australia alone.
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