Bridgehead Coffee

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name = Bridgehead

type = coffeehouse
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foundation = 1981
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location_city = Ottawa, Ontario
location_country = Canada
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products = coffee, tea
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intl = Founded in 1981 in Toronto by Oxfam, Bridgehead is a small fair trade coffeehouse chain which now has nine outlets in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to coffee and organic teas, it sells snacks as well as soups and salads made in its own kitchen. [ [http://www.bridgehead.ca/en/AboutUs/coffeehouses.asp Coffee Houses] Bridgehead website. Retrieved August 13 2007.] In November 2006, Bridgehead was again voted Ottawa’s “Best Coffee/Tea House” by readers of "Ottawa XPress", a widely-read lifestyle weekly. [Ottawa Xpress, 23 November 2006 (The annual "Best of Ottawa" issue) [http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/dossier/bestof/bestof2006.aspx?iIDArticle=10883] ] Bridgehead also sells coffee by mail through its website.

Bridgehead, fair trade, and corporate social responsibility

Bridgehead’s steady expansion from one outlet in 2000 [Cook, Gay (2000) “Bridgehead Offers Coffee with a Difference” in Ottawa Citizen (July 12, 2000)] to nine in 2008 [Bridgehead.ca "Locations" at http://www.bridgehead.ca/en/AboutUs/locations.asp [http://www.bridgehead.ca/en/AboutUs/locations.asp] ] came after the original Bridgehead closed. A profile of Bridgehead’s post-Oxfam management in the Ottawa Citizen claimed that Oxfam Canada's Bridgehead ultimately failed in the mid-1990s due in part a “lack of sound business practices." [Chianello, Joanne (2002) “Bridgehead bounces back: Sticking to your ethics can work as long as the business plan is based on more than good intentions” in Ottawa Citizen [http://www.ottawacitizen.ca] (May 4, 2002), p.H1, H4. ] Tracey Clark bought the Bridgehead Trading Company in 2000, including its trademarks and customer lists for $30,000. Clark originally relied on financing from family and friends, but by 2002, Bridgehead was owned by 30 investors. [Chianello, 2002:H4 ]

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External links

* [http://www.bridgehead.ca Bridgehead official website]