{"id":349916,"date":"2021-08-16T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349916"},"modified":"2021-08-16T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:05:51","slug":"hood-purchases-marianas-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hood-purchases-marianas-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood purchases Marianas Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_349917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349917\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hood-pix.jpg\" alt=\"David Hood Marianas Coffee\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-349917\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan resident David Hood, right, shakes hands with Marianas Coffee\u2019s former owner, Chuck Jordan. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan resident David Hood has purchased 100% ownership of the Marianas Coffee Co. in the CNMI and Guam. <\/p>\n<p>Hood announced the purchase in a statement last Friday, saying the Marianas Coffee\u2019s former owner, Chuck Jordan, will be staying on temporarily as an executive consultant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChuck Jordan has a wonderful story and the Marianas Coffee brand has been an iconic symbol here in the Marianas for many years,\u201d said Hood. \u201cIt will be business as usual as Mr. Jordan has agreed to an executive consulting role for up to 1.5 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hood says the plan is to expand the coffee company\u2019s wholesale and retail markets, including an online presence in the U.S. mainland. \u201cPersonally, I wanted to support the local economy and we will continue the manufacturing here in the Marianas. People will love the story,\u201d he added. (<strong>PR<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan resident David Hood has purchased 100% ownership of the Marianas Coffee Co. in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":349918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7939,711],"class_list":["post-349916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-marianas-coffee","tag-pr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}