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Article: Extreme stick-to-itiveness. (profile of Da Vinci Gourmet Ltd.)(Company Profile)
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- Prepared Foods
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- October 1, 1998
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With a tongue for taste and a quest for quality, Da Vinci Gourmet maintains a thick grip on the flavored syrup market.
Everyone's familiar with the expression, "Don't quit your day job." It's often meant in jest, but William Cotter took it literally.
A senior partner in a successful Seattle law firm, Cotter opted to leave the practice in 1989 for an uncertain future developing and marketing flavored syrups for the rapidly expanding Seattle gourmet coffee market.
Some might regard it as professional suicide, but nine years after bolting law for the sweet, succulent world of guava, hazelnut and boysenberry, Cotter and his partner Greg Davenport have ...