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Stacy Loyd
The Re-making of CPG. Bringing Hip-Hop To Mass Retail Through Digital Cultural Products

The Re-making of CPG. Bringing Hip-Hop To Mass Retail Through Digital Cultural Products

As a child I would walk the aisles of the grocery stores with my mother as she did her weekly shopping, I was a curious and creative young fellow with a nack for merchandising and artistic design, I constantly scanned the packaging of the top food and beverage companies from Kraft and Nabisco to Coca-Cola and Pepsi and always took a little extra time to study the packages that had Black and Brown faces on them such as Uncle Bens, Aunt Jemimah and Cream of Wheat. I’d linger on each aisle scanning the tops and bottoms of the packaging and...

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Stacy Loyd
YOUR FAVORITE ATLANTA RAPPER GRIP INKS RETAIL PARTNERSHIP WITH I DIED FOR THIS COFFEE!?

YOUR FAVORITE ATLANTA RAPPER GRIP INKS RETAIL PARTNERSHIP WITH I DIED FOR THIS COFFEE!?

Atlanta Ga, March 8th 2023 I Died For This Coffee!? Announcement Fresh off the More Black Superheroes Tour and a major record deal with Shady Records, GRIP the burgeoning wordsmith out of East Atlanta recently announced a major retail collaboration with Atlanta’s hip-hop-infused coffee roaster also known as Dope Coffee. The partnership entails combining GRIP’s back catalog classic, I Died For This!?, with a tantalizing blend of East African coffees that are to die for, pun intended. This hip-hop infusion is an entirely new work of art on its own know as, I Died For This Coffee, which is a...

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Stacy Loyd
Dope Coffee Opens New Facility and Announces the ‘Dope Coffee Brand Experience 2023’

Dope Coffee Opens New Facility and Announces the ‘Dope Coffee Brand Experience 2023’

Decatur, GA, January 19, 2023 – Metro-Atlanta, Georgia-based Dope Coffee Company is launching its first big event of the year, the Dope Coffee Brand Experience, February 18, 2023 at its new, fully-integrated headquarters building and event center in Decatur, GA. The team at Dope is fresh off of a fundraising round that saw the Black-owned brand raise over $500,000 dollars from customers and investors which helped them to launch this new facility. Fully Integrated Facility   Dope Coffee Cafe, Decatur, Ga The new 6,000 square-foot facility includes the company’s coffee bean roasting, manufacturing and warehousing operations; a multi-media production facility;...

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Stacy Loyd
Dope Coffee Announces Official Partnership With Vets2Industry

Dope Coffee Announces Official Partnership With Vets2Industry

Vets2Industry Foundation and Dope Coffee Company, both based in Georgia, have partnered together to create a special custom blend of Dope Coffee, called Vets2Industry Coffee By Dope Coffee. Vets2Industry Coffee By Dope Coffee will be available in 12 oz bags and sold direct-to-consumers, in retail stores and through other sales channels, beginning January 2023. The unique blend of coffee was created by Dope Coffee and is being roasted at the Dope Coffee Company facility in Decatur, Georgia.  Dope Coffee Company also designed and created the packaging in consultation with the team at Vets2Industry. A portion of all sales of the...

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