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Business activity: Kevin Wiesehan has a real love for coffee, so much so that it led to a career change.
Wiesehan was working in Seattle, an area he described as saturated with coffee shops, when he decided to leave the aircraft industry and return to St. Louis to open The Breve Espresso Co.
Starting with one small stoe in 1995 in the Paul Brown building in downtown St. Louis, The Breve Espresso Co. consists of five locations today, with four of them operating under licensing agreements.
Breve Espresso is a specialty coffee roaster and a wholesale distributor of coffee, paper products, flavored syrups, Ghirardelli chocolates and other supplies for cafe retailers.
Wiesehan's store moved to One Bell Center in 1997 and more than doubled in size in 2002. Other locations are in the 10th Street Lofts building downtown, owned by Lynne and Jeff Tisoto; at 120 S. Central in Clayton, owned by Debbie and Greg Elliott; at 12683 Dorsett Road in Maryland Heights, owned by Todd and Connie Holmes; and in the St. Anthony's Medical Center atrium in south St. Louis County, owned by Marykay and Chuck Schuler.
In addition to the shops, Breve Espresso Co. is the exclusive supplier of specialty roasted coffees for Bunn Capitol, a food distributor owned by Bob Bunn in Springfield, Ill. Bunn, established in 1840, is the oldest family owned food distributor in the United States, whose first attorney was Abe Lincoln....