Leticia and Harry Hutchins, Alma Coffee (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 389)
Leticia and Harry Hutchins can trace their coffee heritage back at least five generations, and they have extended the family legacy with Alma Coffee. They source their beans from Leticia’s family’s farm and nearby farms in Honduras, delivering freshly roasted-to-order coffee from their Cherokee County roastery. Joining host John Ray, Leticia and Harry discussed the roasting process, sustainability, their cafe, custom gift options, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Alma Coffee
Veteran & Women-Owned, Alma Coffee is a coffee roastery and retailer that focuses on specialty coffee from our farm and surrounding farms in Copan, Honduras! They focus on sustainability, fair trade, ethical sourcing, and highest quality. Their vision is to source ethically & sustainably, empower farmers, and roast amazing coffee! Their slogan, ‘for those who care’ defines our vision perfectly. As farmers and roasters, they care about the coffee industry and are actively working to make it better throughout every step of the supply chain. They believe their customers will also live by this slogan, choosing to buy Alma coffee because they know the positive impact their purchase makes.
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Leticia Hutchins
With a passion for coffee and making a difference, Leticia co-founded Alma Coffee, a specialty coffee roastery and retailer that focuses on direct trade coffee from her family’s farm and surrounding farms in Copan, Honduras. Leticia’s goals include empowering farmers in coffee and bringing recognition to women’s crucial and impactful role in the coffee industry.
With a diverse, multi-cultural background, Leticia graduated in 2016 from DePaul University with dual majors in Accounting (concentration in Internal Audit) and Management Information Systems. Leticia previously had a career in risk advisory at KPMG in Chicago.
Harry Hutchins
Passionate about coffee and changing lives, Harry left his corporate career to pursue one in the specialty coffee industry. Along with his wife, Leticia, Harry founded Alma Coffee, a specialty coffee retailer that aims to bring the highest quality coffee from his family’s farm as well as neighboring farms in Honduras to customers who desire sustainable and ethically sourced coffee.
Harry’s goals are to disrupt the coffee industry for the better, and empowering farmers in the communities Alma Coffee sources from.
North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray, and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven ready, cooked from scratch meals to go they call “Let us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.
