Farmer Bros. Names Interim CEO to Post

By Jerry Hirsch

Aug. 16, 2005 12 AM PT

Torrance coffee roaster Farmer Bros. Co. named longtime company executive Guenter W. Berger its chairman, chief executive and president.

Berger, 68, has served as interim CEO since January after the suicide of Roy E. Farmer, grandson of the company’s founder. Berger’s elevation marks only the second time in the company’s 93-year history that it has been run by a non-family member.

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A third-generation Angeleno, Jerry Hirsch covered the automotive industry for the Los Angeles Times. He wrote frequently about consumer and safety issues in the car business and the relationship between the auto industry and the state and national economies. He has a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He left The Times in 2015.

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