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Tully’s Coffee company history timeline

1995

1995: The company opens a new roasting plant and corporate offices.

1996

By 1996, its number of stores had increased to 22, and same store sales increases were roughly 15 percent higher than the year before.

1997

1997: Tully's begins to sell its coffee overseas.

1998

The company began selling its beans in supermarket chains owned by Brown & Cole in October 1998.

1999

Known for his fun loving, but extremely competitive nature, O'Keefe was puzzled by the fact that no company had stepped forward to challenge Starbucks. "Nobody was competing with Starbucks," he said in the Seattle Post Intelligencer in 1999. "It didn't make sense to me.

Beginning in 1999, Tully's moved into Europe, signing its first licensing agreement in Scandinavia.

2000

In late 2000, the company purchased Portland's Marsee Bakery chain and five stores from Coffee Station in Los Angeles.

A new Tully's opened every six days in 2000 as the number of employees increased dramatically from 400 to 1,300.

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Founded
1992
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Headquarters
Seattle, WA
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Founders
Natasha Chopra,Naveen Chopra,Tom O'Keefe
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