Meet the team
Lars & Margo is a small, family-run business. Peter and Mandy, the founders, work together to provide a reliable and personal service. They believe in building honest relationships with customers and farmers. If you visit their roastery, you can purchase their outstanding coffee and experience their warm and friendly atmosphere. They love talking about coffee and are always happy to share samples with you.
THE FOUNDERS.
PETER
Director and Master Roaster, Business Manager. Machine/Technical sourcing and Procurement. Finance, friendly guy on the end of the phone and Post Office Gopher!
Cornish born and bred, discovering 55 yrs later of his Danish heritage and that his original name was Lars. A long story but a wonderful one with an equally pleasing outcome.
Peter frequently speaks of fond memories of his first job at the age of 11yrs when growing up in Looe. He was a paperboy for Mandy’s uncle, Mike Delf. He was also a pub bottle-upper and sweetshop and tobacconist assistant. He served in the RAF (where he visited his first coffee farm whilst stationed in Belize in the 1980’s). This followed with retail procurement.
An OU Historian, the family member you’ll always find looking out to sea and standing on the furthest rock and also a self confessed hoarder of anything sentimental. He’ll be the one strolling at the back when out in a crowd, blissfully taking in the world and all his surroundings
Ambition - to see Lars & Margo on the shelves of Fortnum & Mason.
MANDY
Director and Innovation Manager, Green Bean Sourcing and Procurement. Back-Up Roaster, Admin and Social Media/Marketing. She’s a hugger! Good news or sad, she’ll be there to provide.
To Mandy, life is a book full of chapters; chance encounters and the opening of new doors. Working in various fields, her proudest achievement - as a mother to three. She was born in Nairobi, the youngest of five children, with a childhood living in Bahrain. Later as a young adult she became a property owner with her late parents, briefly, in France. Mandy loves the world and the kind people within. She strives to connect with people and likewise connect others.
First Class Fine Art hons graduate working in time based installation - microplastics in the ocean (Sub/Supra Pioneer, 2012), now promoting other creatives.
When ‘spring fever’ arrives she’s enthused and inspired. Painfully impatient but desperate to learn from others. She’s longing to meet coffee farmers and producers and likewise artistically document her research.
Ambition - to know when enough is enough.
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