Brazil initiated the Group's coffee business. Since then, the Group's coffee operations have extended throughout the Americas, West Africa, and the Far East, and have recently merged into a global operation. The Coffee Group currently maintains a wide variety of operations in milling, warehousing, exporting, and trading coffee. Ecom Coffee Group includes not only wholly owned origin operations, but also an important presence in consuming countries with offices in Switzerland to cover the European Market, and New York to cover the US & Canadian markets.