Traders & importers (17)
- Ally Coffee — A green-coffee importer that began as Mountain Coffee Corporation in 2010 and took the Ally name in 2013 — Brazilian in origin, Swiss in its finance office, American in its main sales arm, and the source behind several of this wiki’s Costa Rican farm entries.
- Alo Coffee — The Ethiopian family producer-exporter in the Sidama highlands whose own private auction, Echoes of the Peak, sold coffee at $1,739 a kilo in 2025.
- Cafe Imports — An independent specialty green-coffee importer founded in Minneapolis in 1993 by Andrew Miller, now operating on three continents — and, through its free education library and its long-running water activity study, one of the most-cited reference publishers in the specialty trade.
- Daye Bensa — The family-owned Ethiopian grower-exporter in Bensa, Sidama — sixteen washing stations, tens of thousands of smallholder suppliers, and three Cup of Excellence placings filed under the founders’ own names.
- ECOM — The Swiss-based, family-owned soft commodity group that is one of the world’s largest green coffee merchants and millers — the company behind Mercanta, Bourbon Specialty Coffees and Dorman, and the commercial half of the CIRAD alliance that bred Marsellesa and Starmaya.
- Falcon Coffees — A green coffee trading house based in Lewes, England, with origin and sales offices from Addis Ababa to Austin — a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nasdaq-listed Westrock Coffee since 2014, and the company behind much of Westrock’s traceability story.
- Kape Diem Coffee Lab — A coffee quality lab in Dili started in 2018 that cups, teaches and buys traceable coffee in Timor-Leste — an origin with no auction and almost no published scores — and exports through its own arm, Orijem Timor, under an Australian government-backed partnership.
- M-Cultivo — The software company that runs most of the world’s specialty coffee auctions — including Best of Panama — and briefly ran Cup of Excellence’s before the two parted ways in 2025.
- Mercanta — The London green-coffee importer that has traded as “The Coffee Hunters” since 1996 — founded by Stephen Hurst, now an ECOM company, with warehouses on three continents and five Cup of Excellence number-one lots to its name.
- Ninety Plus — The producer brand founded by Joseph Brodsky that made its name on experimental Ethiopian naturals, then bought 200 hectares of ex-cattle land in Volcán, Panama and grew Geisha under a rebuilt forest — and sells it privately rather than at auction.
- Nordic Approach — The Oslo green-coffee importer founded in 2011 that buys only lots scoring 86 points and up, ships them from a warehouse in Belgium, and has belonged to the German trading group Neumann Kaffee Gruppe since around 2021.
- Orijem Timor — The Australian-backed export company formed in 2021 to carry Timor-Leste specialty coffee to Australia — a three-way partnership between the Dili quality lab Kape Diem, the green-coffee buyer Project Origin and the Canberra consultancy 1LM, launched publicly by the Timorese prime minister in 2023.
- Pebble Coffee — A small Taipei green-coffee importer and micro-roaster that shows up on the buyer list for the $10,013-a-kilo 2024 Best of Panama record lot — bidding, unusually, on someone else’s behalf.
- Project Origin — An Australian green coffee buyer founded by Sasa Sestic out of his Canberra company ONA Coffee, selling unroasted coffee from eighteen countries to roasters — and the company behind CM Selections, the carbonic-maceration range that put sealed-tank fermentation on wholesale price lists.
- Sucafina — A family-owned Swiss green coffee trading group — founded in Geneva in 1977 on a commodity business dating to 1905 in Jaffa — that buys coffee from farmers and sells it to roasters in 42 countries, and whose offering pages are one of this wiki’s most-cited sources on Panamanian farms.
- Sustainable Harvest — A US specialty green-coffee importer founded in Portland in 1997 by David Griswold, built around a “Relationship Coffee” model, certified as a B Corporation since 2008 — and, since February 2023, wholly owned by Sucafina North America.
- Testi Coffee — The Addis Ababa family exporter, founded in 2009 by Faysel Abdosh Yonis, that runs washing stations across four Ethiopian coffee zones and staged the private auction where Ethiopian coffee first sold for US$1,604 a kilo.