Heine Brothers'

Heine Brothers' is a coffee roaster and coffee shop chain founded in 1994 by Gary Heine and Mike Mays in Louisville, Kentucky. The company became "100% Fair-Trade & Organic" in 2002. In 2011, co-founder Mays bought out Heine's interests in the company and merged it with Vint, a local coffee shop chain. Today, the company operates 13 Heine Brothers' coffee shops and 1 coffee shop under the Vint name within Kentucky and Southern Indiana. In 1999, Heine Brothers' became a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, Inc., an importer of fairly traded and organically grown green coffee operating in the United States and Canada. In early 2015, in a partnership with Forecastle Foundation and Whole Foods Market, Heine Brothers' created "Kentucky Dream", a fair trade coffee blend benefiting conservation efforts. In November 2016, the company relocated its roasting facilities and headquarters to Louisville's Portland neighborhood. In August 2017, Heine Brothers' partnered with WDRB, a local, Fox-affiliated television station, to distribute eclipse glasses for the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. Funds raised from the promotion, totaling $50,702, were donated to the Louisville Science Center.