Dan Bolton is speaking at Coffee Fest Seattle twice. Retailers Roundtable Saturday at 4pm http://coffeefest.com/Event/WorkshopDetails.aspx?WID=bc3f9408-a489-4b33-b003-edc879e881c2 Ten 2010 Trends: Specialty Coffee Contradictions Sunday at 9am http://coffeefest.com/Event/WorkshopDetails.aspx?WID=95264774-7b47-4146-90d3-e2b0349d7d69

1. Dan Bolton, Editor-in-chief
Specialty Coffee Retailer
COFFEE
Specialty Coffee Retailer is in business to build your business
“We don’t roast, sell or grow coffee but Specialty Coffee Retailer draws on every
resource the industry has to offer to craft its unique blend of best practices, innovations
and advice. In every issue talented writers delve into the complexities, document the
experiences and digest mounds of information to deliver publishing’s most precious elixir
— business insight.” - Dan Bolton, Editor-in-Chief
INTRO
Among the many challenges facing a probationary firefighter is the task of brewing
gallons of coffee at all hours of the day. Dan joined the fire service in 1974 long before
Keurig simplified the task. He learned to love the brew in the three years he worked for
the City of Manhattan, Kansas.
BIO
Since 1995 Dan has led four magazine publishing companies. His introduction to the
food and beverage industry came as CEO and Publisher of Patterson’s Beverage Journal
and the Beverage Bulletin. In 2002, following the USDA’s adoption of National Organic
Program certification rules, Dan launched the Certified Organic Food Directory. This 500-
page directory contained listings for every organic supplier in the U.S. and Canada. The
success of the directory financed the launch of Natural Food Network and magazine in
May 2005. In 2007 the company was sold to M2Media360. Dan joined M2Media360 as
NFN’s editor-in-chief in November 2007. The following year he was also named editor-
in-chief of Specialty Coffee Retailer.
OPTIONAL
Dan worked as a reporter and editor at five newspapers in Kansas, California and
Oklahoma owned by media groups including Knight-Ridder, Donrey Media, Scripps
Howard and the Press-Enterprise Company. His articles have appeared in many regional
and national magazines. Dan ended a 20-year career in newspapers as executive editor
of Community Newspapers in Los Angeles, a group responsible for the Glendale News
Press, Burbank Leader and the Weekly Foothills Section of the Los Angeles Times. He
was the publisher of Animation Magazine from 1995 until 1998. He later worked at Reed
Business Information as publisher of the LA 411 film and television production directory
and Kemps International Film Directory in London. Reed was then the nation’s largest b-
to-b publishing company. Dan launched the NY 411 film production directory in 1998

2. and the award-winning Digital 411 directory in 1999. He is a partner and a member of
the board of directors of film magazine Below the Line which he helped launch in 2002.
A native of Providence, Rhode Island, and the oldest of seven children, Dan was raised
in Kansas and is the father of three. He is a graduate of Kansas State University where
he earned a BS in Mass Communications.