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Five years ago, Kevin Coupe bought a new laptop computer, rented office space above a tavern, and set out to prove that retail journalism could be provocative, exciting and even fun to read.
Today, MorningNewsBeat.com boasts more than 15,000 subscribers from all segments of the industry, and Kevin’s quick, concise and unique brand of “news in context, analysis with attitude” – including a healthy dose of irreverence for the industry’s sacred cows – has created a website that is a must-read every business morning.
In addition, Kevin runs Coupe Communications, a production company that specializes in business videos designed to help companies define and share big ideas with employees, customers and clients.
He also is a contributing columnist to SupermarketGuru.com, Chain Store Age, and numerous other publications and websites. He was the founding editor of IdeaBeat.com, editorial director of the Retail Insights and Supermarket Insights video programs, and was a staff writer and editor for Progressive Grocer, Supermarket Business, and Drug Store News.
Kevin likes nothing better than getting on a plane or behind the wheel of his aging convertible and traveling to someplace he hasn’t been before, where he can eat the local food, taste the local beer or wine, and find out what makes the local retailers tick. He’s reported from 40 out of the 50 United States and from some 20 different countries around the globe. Kevin also has spoken at numerous conferences in the US and abroad, has been a newspaper reporter and video producer, ran a winery tasting room, worked in a series of men’s clothing stores, acted in a major motion picture, once was a bodyguard for Farrah Fawcett, and even wrote a segment of the French animated series, "Barnyard Commandos." And, in his spare time he has completed two marathons and recently learned to drive a Formula Dodge racecar.
He is married with three children, and lives in Connecticut.
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