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MPC Values | Communication

MPC Values | Communication

COMMUNICATION Ahh, communication. The social process by which we attempt to share words, ideas and meaning. Not just verbally either. Yea, words matter, but so does our way of expressing said words. And nowadays, we’ve evolved to do so much...
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MPC Values | Sustainability

MPC Values | Sustainability

SUSTAINABILITY I took a class on sustainability from SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) several years ago and one thing I walked away with was that everyone had a different definition of sustainability. Part of the issue in my opinion about answering...
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MPC Values | Empowerment

MPC Values | Empowerment

EMPOWERMENT  One of the greatest responsibilities I have as a business owner is to give power to people. In a society that promotes self-preservation, individualism and profit, it is all too rare to see owners and businesses utilize their “power”...
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MPC Values | Transparency

MPC Values | Transparency

⚖️ JUSTICE ⚖️ What even is transparency? I feel like it’s become such an overused term to convince consumers to buy a product, that it’s lost a lot of meaning. What is the responsibility of a business to share certain...
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MPC Values | Justice

MPC Values | Justice

⚖️ JUSTICE ⚖️ One of the first coffees we ever sold, “The Original Hipster”, was from Yemen. It wasn’t a great coffee, and certainly wasn’t sourced from a good importer (more on that irony later) – but with good intentions,...
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