John Puckett

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  www.pmq.com/news/news.php?id=13387 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/16/2009    Last Visited: 9/16/2009  

  "People actually do the work for you," John Puckett, a co-owner of Punch, said. "If they like our brand and like what we're doing with pizza, they'll help us spread the word. It is a very efficient way to market. Puckett said he's given away thousands of pizzas and figures a freebie can turn someone into a lifelong paying customer."

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  www.mspmag.com/health/healthnuts/148827.asp - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/1/2009    Last Visited: 7/7/2009  

  Health Nut of the Month John Puckett, co-owner of Punch Neapolitan Pizza
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  John Puckett
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  So we tracked down John Puckett, co-owner of Punch Neapolitan Pizza, and promised we would fill our Punch "punch" card (not a hard thing to do!) if he would be willing to tell us his secret. Read why Puckett, who started Caribou Coffee, left the caffeine biz in lieu of a little 'za and how he maintains his health while eating six to seven pizzas a week.
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  When we were growing Caribou Coffee [which Puckett started], our [my wife and my] favorite restaurant was Punch; we had date night there.

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  Published on: 5/1/2009    Last Visited: 7/7/2009  

  A: John Puckett, co-owner of Punch Pizza, who also practices yoga. He is a really positive person and full of energy.
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  Health Nut of the Month John Puckett, co-owner of Punch Neapolitan Pizza

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  Published on: 8/1/2006    Last Visited: 7/10/2007  

  Founder John Soranno, who was raised in Milan, Italy, co-owns the business with John Puckett, the founder and former owner of Caribou Coffee.

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  Published on: 3/30/2008    Last Visited: 3/30/2008  

  "We're about as small as they come," owner John Puckett says as he leads a midday tasting and tour."We sell 99 percent of our wine out the door here," with a small amount going to a few local restaurants."The wines we make are mostly dry, because that's what we like," Puckett says."If it doesn't sell, we have to drink it, so we have to like it."Wines are named for grandchildren, such as the Jacob Christopher Chardonnay that I took to San Diego; for the neighborhood, such as a Sumerduck ros,; or for the variety, such as a Barrel-Select Seyval.Puckett often leads tours himself.The family nature of the operation is as clear as the tricycle sitting on a concrete crush pad outside the room that holds the wine press, four stainless-steel tanks, eight oak barrels, and the bottling machine.Puckett was excited about the fall harvest: "It's an excellent year for grapes for us, the best crop since 2001."

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  Published on: 9/23/2007    Last Visited: 9/26/2007  

  "We're about as small as they come," owner John Puckett said as he led a midday tasting and tour on a late-summer Saturday.
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  Tours are often led by Puckett himself.The family nature of the operation is as clear as the tricycle sitting on a concrete crush pad outside the room that holds the wine press, four stainless-steel tanks, eight oak barrels and the bottling machine.
  
  Puckett is excited about this year's harvest, which began last week with Vidal grapes."It's an excellent year for grapes for us, the best crop since 2001," he said.

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  Caribou Coffee was founded in December of 1992 by Kimberly and John Puckett.
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  Kimberly and John Puckett were inspired during the trip to do something larger with their lives and consequently formulated an idea for a business of their own.
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  Kim and John, both graduates of Dartmouth College's school of business, gained experience in finance and marketing prior to striking out on their own.
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  "What really interested us in coffee was, at the time, it was just booming in Boston, same thing that's happening in Minneapolis [now]," John Puckett said in a January 1994 Twin Cities Business Monthly article by Allison Campbell.
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  "All ours do now," said John Puckett in Twin Cities Business Monthly.
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  As Kim managed the personnel aspects of the stores, John tended to coffee quality, real estate acquisition, and finances.
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  The enterprise also drew interest, Schafer surmised in an earlier article, because of the caliber of investors already on board, such as John Puckett's uncle Dr. Thomas F. Frist, founder of the Hospital Corporation of America, and asset manager James R. Jundt, who was well-known on Wall Street.
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  Kim Puckett, as chair of the board, concentrated on corporate culture and communications, and John Puckett, as CEO, focused on raising funds.
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  Caribou Coffee was imagined by newlyweds John and Kim Puckett while traveling Denali National Park in Alaska.

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  Caribou Coffee going public - Minneapolis/St. Paul... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2005    Last Visited: 8/21/2006  

  John Puckett, Kim Puckett, Michael Coles,
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  Caribou was founded in 1992 by John and Kim Puckett, who left in 2000 after selling a majority stake to Crescent Capital Investments, an arm of The First Islamic Bank of Bahrain.

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  Published on: 1/1/2003    Last Visited: 6/16/2003  

  Owner John Puckett said he has a repair technician that has been in the business for more than 40 years, but with the new cameras, technicians are limited as to what they can fix.
  
  "We repair the battery doors, but anything major and the price is too high," he said.
  
  For major repairs, the cameras must be shipped back to the manufacturer, which more often than not costs customers almost the same as purchasing a new camera, Puckett said.
  
  Digital sales continue to grow, though, and film sales continue to decrease, according to the PMA study, but in Ainsworth's opinion, conventional cameras still have a long life ahead of them.
  
  "There will be a lot of people that will continue with film because they are more comfortable with it," he said.

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  John Puckett weighs in on Pizza, Passion and Punch - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/1/2007    Last Visited: 3/30/2009  

  John Puckett weighs in on Pizza, Passion and Punch
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  John Puckett, co-owner of Punch, knows this type of pizza isn't for everyone. "We do get customers asking us to put chicken, pineapple or Canadian bacon on our pizzas," he admits. However, customers shouldn't look for a Hawaiian, Southwestern or taco pizza on the menu anytime soon. None of those pies would meet with his business partner's approval, Puckett says.
  
  Punch is run by two men named John.
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  "My partner is really the genius behind the pizza," Puckett says. "I just try not to screw up what he comes up with. Instead, Puckett handles the "front of the house," explaining he enjoys customer service. Puckett also works with the company's financial systems.
  
  If his past professional success is any indication of his future business savvy, Punch Pizza has much to gain from Puckett's buy-in. Puckett and his wife Kimberly, who live in Orono, are the couple that started Caribou Coffee.
  
  Even if they couldn't pick Puckett out in a crowd, most Twin Cities residents are familiar with the story behind Caribou's founding. While the company has since been sold, framed pictures of the Pucketts sitting atop a snow-covered mountain still grace many a Caribou walls. It was during a vacation to Alaska that the couple decided they wanted out of the corporate world, and thus opened a coffee shop.
  
  Yet their coffee shop soon morphed into its own corporation. "We started Caribou in '92 and sold it in 2001," Puckett says, explaining that Seattle-based Starbucks did try to buy the company early on.
  
  "The only way Caribou was going to survive was by growing really hard," Puckett says. The company burst into a flurry of activity and expansion, opening locations as far away as Atlanta. The tactic worked, at least close to home. "Minnesota is the only market in the world, in the world," he emphasizes, "where Starbucks doesn't dominate the coffee scene."

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