Sourcing Partner’s
We’re committed to being fully transparent about how and where we source our coffee and who makes these connections with the fantastic producers we are lucky to work with as a coffee roaster.
Loyalty and commitment to growing prosperous long-lasting relationships
Our importing partners all have excellent records with a clear commitment to long-term growth in the origins, regions, and communities they source from. They work with the producers to improve the quality of the coffee produced through various programs and initiatives from sourcing new equipment through coffee sales, helping build new processing stations that are easier to access for smallholders, and helping through educational exchanges between experts in varying fields with producers.
Improving the quality of coffee is one thing. But improving the quality of life, working in the community interest is something that we look for also and are proud to say we find all our importing partners show a clear sign of this commitment to this ethos.
Transparency Report
We’ve signed the pledge to be a part of a worldwide movement to create a common code of practice for transparency reporting in green coffee.
Our commitments are to:
state the producer/producer organization the coffee was purchased from;
state the Free On Board (FOB) price paid for the coffee;
indicate the quality of the coffee, for instance by using the SCA score in order to indicate cup quality;
state the lot size (volume) of the coffee purchased;
state the length of the relationship between producer/producer organization and buyer;
state the percentage of transparent coffees in relation to the total volume of coffee (in lbs/tonnes) sold in the stated year.
Companies that sign this pledge publish the required information about at least one of the coffees they are selling. If the published information is called into question, companies that signed this contract agree to share a randomly selected number of green coffee contracts with other participants in order to verify the information published in the transparency reports (peer review).
Importing Partners
Kamba Coffee is the result of an idea put together by friends and coffee lovers that have generations of experience from production to roasting. After deciding to get involved in specialty coffee sourcing, as each of them was already busy either producing, importing or roasting, they decided to put together a team who would implement their ideas and bring their own experiences and motivations to the project:
Raw Material is registered as a Community Interest Company (CIC) in the UK. This means it exists to benefit the community as opposed to private shareholders. 100% of its profits are allocated for the benefit of the smallholder farmers it works with, either directly through payments for coffee, or through investment in community-level projects, such as the building of coffee processing facilities and community hubs for the purpose of knowledge sharing and education.
Carvela is certified B-corporation. Their business model is built upon sustainability through quality, education and traceability. With a team of more than 200 coffee professionals – spread out in across 7 origin operations and 4 import offices, and with an infrastructure of more than 40 purchasing stations, they offer the unique opportunity to access an unparalleled range of specialty coffees, building long-term relationships with farmers and ensuring a consistent product from year-to-year, as well as a genuine lasting impact for their business and yours.
Falcon Speciality was born out of the conviction that the coffee industry has the potential to drive enormous socio economic change and harness environmental stewardship across a geo-political landscape that is home to both vulnerable communities and fragile ecosystems. Their purpose is to help drive this change as part of Global citizenship. Embracing diversity in all things, treating everyone we interact with, including one another, with dignity and respect, being of service, constantly seeking improvement through innovation, having a positive impact, wherever we trade and being a good company to work for, and with.