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Coffee is the most diverse, interesting and challenging commodity to trade in the world. We are all very fortunate to be involved in this fascinating business. However, to provide that perfect cup of coffee can sometimes be a difficult task. All of the participants in the supply chain, from the farmer to the retailer, are continually exposed to a shifting horizon due to ever changing market factors such as weather, politics, logistics, macro and micro-economics and government regulations. It is our role in the supply chain to make the delivery of the right quality coffee to our customers as easy and timely as possible.

  LEARN THE STORY OF INCREDIBLE COFFEE. THE ANTHEM JOURNEY For more than 30 years, our family business has helped coffee roasters achieve great results through custom solutions that build quality and consistency. We do this through personal service and by overseeing each phase of the coffee process-come journey with us!

ABOUT US Through our direct origin relationships we provide our customers access to a vast network of coffee sourcing and export channels. As a member of the The ECOM Coffee Group we work closely with our global purchasing, milling and exporting operations to produce and deliver spectacular specialty coffee. In addition to the support we receive from our sister companies at origin, we work with 3rd party independent farms, mills, and exporters. This unique and integrated sourcing approach enables us to meet all your green coffee buying requirements. Be it cup profile, processing, quality and origin selection, sustainable certifications, or direct source, we are confident we can support and help grow your business. The ASCI office opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996. Our team has extensive trading experience and we look forward to sharing our knowledge in partnership with you and your company. Please refer to ECOM’s Global Offices map to find our sister offices. In addition to providing top quality coffee, market analysis and hedging assistance, we have extensive backgrounds in a range of sustainable programs. Whether it be organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, or ECOM’s in house program, Sustainable Management Services, ASCI can fulfill your […]

Atlas Coffee Importers is a full-service trading company founded in Seattle in 1998, with the intention of connecting growers and roasters in a common language of quality and mutual benefit. Our mission is to provide personalized coffee trading services to benefit the global coffee community. This means our focus and energy are directed toward quality-of coffee, of business, of relationships, of environment. We want what is good for Atlas to be equally good for our vendors, our clients, and the people who work here. We strive to operate with integrity and professionalism, while maintaining a sense of humor and deep appreciation for the privilege of getting to work in a great industry. Ultimately, we love sharing our enthusiasm for coffee and helping to create a thriving global community. As part of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), we are supported by a global community of coffee service companies.

WHO WE ARE Founded in 1917 by Richard and Ralph Balzac, Balzac Brothers is one of the country’s top importers of green coffee. Our family has been supplying sustainable, specialty coffee for four generations. This tradition of excellence and dedication to coffee roasters continues with unsurpassed attention to detail and top quality green coffee. Balzac Brothers & Co. is committed to providing our valued customers with only the finest green coffees available in the most timely and informed manner possible. We take pride in our commitment and our service quality and look forward to serving your green coffee needs. OUR OFFICE Dating back to 1852, the Balzac Brothers office is tucked away on historic Fulton Street in downtown Charleston. The bee friendly building boasts an indoor/outdoor observational bee hive. We sample roast on our Jabez and Burns 4 barrel sample roasters dating back to 1909, our Ikawa Pro V3 and production roast for research and development on our 2001 12 kilo Probat. Balzac Brothers is one of only 18 SCAA and CQI certified labs in the United States, hosting classes of up to 12 students at a time. We host several CQI and SCAA classes a year – check with […]

It stands to reason that a small business focused on the service of importing coffee is going to be very hands-on. We’ve learned a few things over the years of our business, and one of the most important is that our day-to-day work has the capability to touch a lot of people’s lives for the better. Farmers, millers, exporters, shippers, roasters, everyone involved-we take the relationship we have with each of these characters seriously and aim to leave every partner and potential partner satisfied that they made the right choice to work with Cafe Imports.

ABOUT CAPE HORN COFFEES Founded in 1995, Cape Horn Coffees, Inc. (“CHC”) is an importer and wholesaler of green (unroasted) coffee into North America. We trade all origins of coffee, with a focus on Brazil and Central America. CHC’s owners come from very different backgrounds within coffee, giving us an entirely unique perspective on the industry. Paul Leighton founded Cape Horn in 1995 after 15 years of co-owning and operating the Coffee Corner, a small but successful coffee roaster in Eugene, OR. Paul used his roasting insights to begin to supply green coffee to other roasting companies in the Pacific Northwest, and CHC was born. Today, CHC imports and supplies green coffee to roasters throughout North America. CHC’s philosophy is to always put the customer’s best interests first. We never push a particular grade or origin, but rather take the time to learn our customer’s profiles and end-market so that we can provide relevant advice and source the best value coffees for each customer’s particular needs. CHC is owned by three partners with very different backgrounds within coffee. Our diverse backgrounds in farming, roasting, trading, and finance give us unique insight into the issues that roasting companies face, which go […]

What We Do We offer the unique opportunity to access an unparalleled range of specialty coffee, priced and categorized according to cupping score – and still make an impact at origin. Our business was founded to bridge the gap between specialty coffee roasters and quality focussed small-holder farmers in Latin America. Our business was founded in 2000 specifically to bridge the gap between Latin American farmers and the rest of the world – hence our name. Back then we also thought that quality coffee must have to come from larger farms with more money to invest. However, as we ventured into sourcing the coffee direct from origin we soon realized it didn’t have to be that way. In fact, the best qualities were being produced by small, unknown farmers.

ABOUT US Founded in 1971, Coffee Holding Company, Inc. has been a family run business for three generations serving specialty and institutional roasters, wholesalers, and retailers for more than 47 years. Although we have been publicly traded since 2005 (NASDAQ JVA), we still treat our customers and conduct our business relationships in the same intimate manner as we have since the very beginning. Our team is comprised of committed, knowledgeable, coffee professionals with over 100 years of combined industry experience. Today, we continue with our founder’s tradition with an ongoing commitment to the highest standards of selecting, roasting, and packaging the highest quality coffees available on the market today.

Since 1998, we have led the effort to secure top quality coffees for our customers.   OUR MISSION COFFEE RESOURCES INC., a US based company, was founded in 1998 by its present owner Felipe Isaza, as a company providing over 25 years of experience in coffee to the specialty coffee trade. Today, our company is fully dedicated to importing and exporting top quality coffees from diverse origins. The company represents a few fine coffee producers from various origins, including Exportadora de Cafe Condor in Colombia. COFFEE RESOURCES INC. maintains a solid base of customers who understand and demand quality, and it is guided by the philosophy acquired throughout several years involved with coffee: QUALITY; QUALITY of coffee, QUALITY of the environment, and most important QUALITY of life of the thousands of coffee producers who depend on coffee. Our customers are distributed throughout the globe. from small to medium size roasters in the U.S.,Europe, Middle East, and Asian countries including Japan, Korea and China. In 1982 after graduating from University of Texas in International Business and Finance, Felipe returned to Colombia to work with a very important Japanese trading house.

history Cooperative Coffees is a green coffee importing cooperative committed to supporting and partnering with small-scale coffee farmers and their exporting cooperatives. By importing directly from our partner-farmers, we do business in a way that creates a fairer, more transparent and sustainable system of coffee trade that directly benefits farmers, and their families and communities. Coop Coffees’ story began in 1997, when founder Bill Harris – inspired by his encounter with a Guatemalan coffee coop on a Habitat for Humanity delegation – decided to start up a roasting company that would import and roast fairly traded coffee beans from Central America. By 1998, Cafe Campesino, the roasting company, imported one full container – approximately 40,000 pounds of coffee. Needless to say, they were up to their ears in green coffee that would have taken them years to go through themselves. So Bill planned a road trip to scour the eastern seaboard and across the mid-western states, looking for value-driven roasters interested in investing in a collective coffee importing venture. In 1999, seven roasters met in Atlanta and officially formed Cooperative Coffees. In 2009, 10 years down the road, the cooperative had grown to include 23 roasters who spanned the continent […]

OUR MISSION Equal Exchange’s mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world. OUR STORY Equal Exchange started with an idea: what if food could be traded in a way that is honest and fair, a way that empowers both farmers and consumers? Our founders – Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal and Michael Rozyne – asked this question as they envisioned a trade model that values ?each part of the supply chain?. So they took a big risk and plunged full-force into changing a broken food system. In 1986, they started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn’t look back?. Read more of our story > ?Three decades later (and with several product lines in the mix), we still face vast challenges. Consumers have been overloaded with labels and certifications, while the Fair Trade movement has been watered down in favor of corporate interests. The whole food industry has continued to consolidate into the hands of just a few big players, allowing concentrated power […]