Companies that "Get it" Installment #3

Wednesday’s company:

Barking Dog Coffee House

The Barking Dog is a vintage feel coffee shop new to the downtown Beaumont, TX area that promotes something new (for the Beaumont area). They only engage in fair trade coffee and strive for all other products to be organic.

According to wikipedia.org, fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach to alleviating global poverty and promoting sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, and flowers.

The Barking Dog remains the front runner in this area in relation to fair trade, organic, hipness and being brave enough to establish a business in the budding downtown. Currently, to my knowledge, no other coffee shop in Beaumont, independently owned or not, is bringing this issue to the forefront.

Wonderfully hand decorated, an eclectic feel permeates this cozy downtown space with chandeliers and vintage furniture. This coffee shop with the unusual pub sounding name and laid back appeal is helping to turn the light bulb on, in most Southeast Texans heads.