The future of coffee starts with its origins. As experts at origin, with exceptional global coverage, true depth of knowledge and an innovative, entrepreneurial mindset, ECOM supports farmers, forges alliances and finds sustainable new ways to grow, harvest and mill.
Because we’re there at the beginning, we help shape what’s next, allowing roasters big and small, mainstream and artisan, to anticipate and master change. We make the connections that help give coffee its next kick.
What’s new
Helping Colombian coffee growers get their business back
In the decades of violence that blighted Colombia, many coffee growers were forced to abandon their lands. Now they have their lands back, ECOM Specialty Coffee is working with the Land Restitution Unit to help these families find buyers for their specialty beans, cultivated in rich, volcano ash-derived soil...
Frutos de la Restitución, Colombia
What’s new
Coffee’s next big kick
Coffee changes constantly – and at ECOM, we’re paving the way for those changes, working in partnership with our subsidiaries and with other coffee pioneers across the world. 2021 saw the launch of Nespresso’s first fermented coffee, Nicaragua La Cumplida Refinada...
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What’s new
From small beginnings…
In 1996, ECOM Coffee established its first operation in Africa – Kawacom Uganda Limited. From a small company in a rented office, Kawacom has grown to become a leader in the Ugandan coffee community, thanks to our innovative approach to sustainable coffee farming.
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Our business
Strength through success
ECOM Coffee is one of the largest and most successful service companies in coffee globally, sourcing, selling and delivering exceptional service across six continents
From innovative sub-pallet solutions for artisans to streamlined, efficient operations for the big players, we help food companies big and small to do their best business. We have three key areas of focus: our commercial business serving our largest customers worldwide; our global family of specialty coffee companies, for exceptional quality and single origin coffees; and SMS, our on-the-ground sustainability arm.
With our entrepreneurial mindset and broad global network, ECOM is proud to pave the way for coffee’s next stage. Whether it’s finding new ways to grow, collecting better data for our farmers and customers, or supporting communities at origin through education and female empowerment initiatives, we’re here to take coffee forwards and help secure its future.
Our profile
Love your origins
‘Love your origins’ is not just a strapline for us. We’re not just traders. We’re proper coffee people, with a genuine passion for what we do. And that means we’ll do everything we can to bring our customers quality beans that fit their needs, on time, every time.
We’re an origins-based business, driven by people. For our farmers, we’re there on the ground to create shared value and help where it counts. For our customers, the reach and expertise of our global network creates supply chains they can rely on. And through constant innovation, we find solutions that help us and our partners meet their sustainability goals.
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Where we operate
Our coffee world
ECOM Coffee has over 20 origin countries and 85 sales destinations across six continents. With 33 wet mills, 36 dry mills and 53 warehouses, we buy from producers and provide primary processing at origin, as well as providing secondary industrial processing at both origin and destination.
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Brazil
EISA Empresa Interagricola
Facts
Started in 1949
Locations:
- Santos (SP)
- Vitoria da Conquista (BA)
- Luis Eduardo (BA)
- Cacoal (RO)
- Vitoria (ES)
- Manhuacu (MG)
- Varginha(MG)
- Machado(MG)
- Araguari (MG)
- Pedregulho (SP)
- Londrina (PR)
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Brazil
Brazil
Bourbon Specialty Coffees
Facts
Started in 2000
Locations:
- Poços de Caldas (MG)
- Manhuaçu (MG)
- Araxá (MG)
- Venda Nova do Imigrante (ES)
- São João da Boa Vista (SP)
Contact us
Brazil
www.bourboncoffees.com.br
bourbon@bourboncoffee.com
Brazil
CarmoCoffees
Facts
Started in 2007
Locations:
- Carmo de Minas (MG)
- Três Corações (MG)
- Lambari (MG)
- Pedralva (MG)
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Brazil
Capricornio Coffees
Facts
Started in 2015
Locations:
- Ourinhos (SP)
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Colombia
Condor Specialty Coffee
Facts
Started in 1987, Integrated in 1991
Dry mills & Buying Centers: Pitalito(Huila), Buga & Virginia (Eje Cafetero), Bucaramanga(Santander), Popayán(Cauca), Viotá(Cundinamarca), Chaparral(Tolima), Concordía(Antioquia)
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Colombia
Mexico
Agroindustrias Unidas de Mexico SA
Facts
Started in 1979
Mexico City
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Chiapas, Veracruz, Puebla & Oxaca
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Mexico
tradecafe@ecomtrading.com
El salvador
Cafetalera del Pacífico S.A de C.V
Facts
Started in 2004
Zaragoza
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: covering most of the country’s coffee regions.
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El Salvador
cadepa-trading@ecomtrading.com
Guatemala
Retrillas del Pacifico
Facts
Started in 1980
Guatemala City
Dry mills & Buying Centers: Agua Santa, Los Pinos, Gualán, Coatepeque, Huehuetenango
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Guatemala
coflauguat@ecomtrading.com
Honduras
Sogimex S.A
Facts
Started in 1985
San Pedro Sula
Dry mills & Buying Centers: Chinacla(Los Andes), La Libertad & El Paraiso, Pena Blanca, San Nicolas, San Luis, Cucuyagua, Gracias, Lepaera, Subirana
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Honduras
Nicaragua
Exportadora Atlantic S.A.
Facts
Started in 1997
Managua
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Matagalpa, Jinotega, Ocotal
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Costa rica
Cafinter S.A.
Facts
Started in 1979, Integrated in 1992
Tres Rios
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: West Valley, La Giorgia, Patalillo, Orosi Valley, La Amistad
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Costa Rica
crtrade@ecomtrading.com
Kenya
Dorman Kenya Ltd
Facts
Started in 1950, integrated in 2014
Tatu City
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Karatina, Ruiru and Eldoret
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Tanzania
Dorman Tanzania Ltd
Facts
Started in 2013, Integrated in 2014
Moshi
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Mbinga, Mbeya and Dar Es Salaam
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Tanzania
www.dormanscoffee.com
Kenya_Trade@ecomtrading.com
Rwanda
Dorman Rwanda Ltd
Facts
Started in 2012, Integrated in 2014
Kigali
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Covering most of the country’s coffee regions.
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Uganda
Kawacom (U) Ltd
Facts
Started in 1996
Kampala
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Sipi & West Nile
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Uganda
Ethiopia
ECOM Agroindustrial Corp Ltd
Facts
Started in 2012
Addis Abada
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Ethiopia
ethiopia_traffic@ecomtrading.com
Vietnam
Atlantic Commodities Vietnam Ltd
Facts
Started in 2003
Ho Chi Minh (Binh Thanh District)
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Duc Trong, Bao Loc, Gia Lai & Dong Nai
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Vietnam
acom-trade@ecomtrading.com
India
ECOM Commodities India Private Limited
Facts
Started in 2000
Bangalore
Dry mills & Buying Centers: Kushalnagar(Coorg), Chikmagalur/Gonikoppa(Karnataka), Sulthan bathery(Kerala), Yercaud/Theni (Tamilnadu)
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India
indiatradecoffe@ecomtrading.com
Indonesia
PT Indo CafCo
Facts
Started in 2004
Medan, North Sumatra
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Bener Meria, Aceh
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China
Ecom China Co., Ltd & Puer Tianchen Coffee Co., Ltd
Facts
Started in 2012
Kunming
Buying Centers: Simao
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China
cncof@ecomtrading.com
Papua new guinea
Monpi Coffee Export Ltd
Facts
Started in 2002
Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province
Wet/Dry mills & Buying Centers: Mt. Hagen, Western Highlands Province
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Papua New Guinea
PNG_Coffee_Trade@ecomtrading.com
Switzerland
ECOM Agroindustrial Corp Ltd
Facts
Started in 1967
Pully - Headquarters
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Switzerland
ch_tr@ecomtrading.com
Belgium
Supremo NV
Facts
Started in 1989
Integrated in 2013
Bruges
Local offices: Uganda and Burundi
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Germany
ECOM Kaffee GmbH
Facts
Started in 2014
Hamburg
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Germany
Greece
Paris DST
Facts
Started in 2008
Thessaloniki
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United kingdom
Mercanta Ltd.
Facts
Started in 1996
London
Founders of the London School of Coffee and Mercanta Micro
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Royaume-uni
Keynote Coffee Ltd
Facts
Started in 2020
Chelthenham
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États-unis
Atlantic (USA), LLC.
Facts
Started in 1988
New York City
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USA
atusatradecoffee@ecomtrading.com
United states
Atlantic Specialty Coffee
Facts
Started in 1996
San Leandro, California
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Singapore
ECOM Agroindustrial Asia Pte Ltd
Facts
Started in 1992
Singapore
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Singapore
singcoffeetrade@ecomtrading.com
South korea
ECOM Korea Co. Ltd
Facts
Started in 2019
Seoul
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South Korea
ecomkorea@ecomtrading.com
China
ECOM China Co., Ltd
Facts
Started in 2016
Shanghai
Contact us
China
china_trade@ecomtrading.com
Japan
ECOM Japan Ltd
Facts
Started in 2003
Tokyo
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Japan
japan_all@ecomtrading.com
Australia
Condesa Co.Lab
Facts
Started in 2012
Sydney
Local offices: Port Melbourne & Adelaide
Contact us
Australia
www.condesacolab.com.au
sales@condesa.com.au
United states
Alternative Bean Company
Facts
Started in 2019
Houston (US), Hamburg (Germany) & San José (Costa Rica)
Contact us
www.alternativebeancompany.com
abc@ecomtrading.com
Mexico
Descafeinadores Mexicanos S.A. de C.V
Facts
Started in 1980
Veracruz
Contact us
Mexico
www.descamex.com.mx
descamex@ecomtrading.com
Mexico
Cafés de Especialidad de Chiapas SAPI de CV
Facts
Started in 2011
Tapachula
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Mexico
www.cafesca.com
cafesca@ecomtrading.com
Our companies & brands
Some brands in focus
Bourbon Specialty Coffees, Brazil
Since 2000, Bourbon has been working with partner estates and farmers in Brazil’s main growing regions. The company exports its coffee in innovation bags, which preserve the quality for longer.
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Carmo Coffees, Brazil
Since 2007, Carmo are pioneers in the development of post-harvest processes. Their warehouse has a unique and innovative design, planned to work only with specialty coffee and machinery specific for microlots.
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Capricornio Coffees, Brazil
Founded in 2015, Capricornio is at the origin of the Four Seasons Project that provides agronomical support on best practices of farming and post harvest, aiming at specialty sustainable coffees production.
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Cari Coffee, Mexico
Born in 2019, Cari Coffee is the specialty coffee division of Agroindustrias Unidas de Mexico. We select and separate the best Mexican coffees for specialty coffee roasters all over the world.
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SMS Specialty Coffee, Costa Rica
SMS Specialty was founded in 2019 with the objective of promoting specialty coffee from Costa Rica, from farms that are changing the way the coffee sector moves forward into the future, with the advice of our SMS department. It's the perfect partner in origin for those that share the same passion, great coffee, and positive impact behind each bag.
Condor, Colombia
Established in 1987, Condor is the first exporter of Specialty Coffee in Colombia. Their purpose is to Source and reveal unique coffees in order to create value through innovative and transparent solutions that connect passionate roasters and dedicated producers. From farm to cup, hand in hand with coffee growers and roasters.
C.Dorman, Kenya
Founded in 1950, Dorman is one of the region’s preeminent exporters. Deeply committed to purveying coffees of the highest quality, but also to supporting the coffee farmers of Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda through investment in sustainability programs - activities that it believes will secure the livelihood of the coffee farmers and the future of coffee production within the region.
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Mercanta - The Coffee Hunters, UK
Established in 1996, Mercanta pioneered the growth of specialty coffee in Europe. Focused on specialty coffee for both boutiques and medium scale roasters, it also founded the London School of Coffee.
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Keynote, UK
Founded in 2020, Keynote is focused on supplying high commercial, low specialty, and certified coffees to midsized roasters and also offering them trade solutions. Integration is key and sourcing is mainly done from ECOM’s origins.
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Condesa, Australia
Since 2012, Condesa Co.lab simplified the process of buying any coffee for the roaster supported by an experienced team of coffee professionals from boutique operations to large-scale roasters.
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Paris DST, Greece
In 1995, "Paris Coffee Co Ltd UK" was established by Mr. Paris Diamandouros as a coffee exporter based in Thessaloniki. In parallel, "DST Trading'' located in Cyprus was founded by Mr. Dimos Tsolakis & his sons Stavros & Dimitris. In 2000, both entities merged and ECOM took over the company in 2008. Since then, Paris DST is renowned in the Balkans region for offering a large range of coffee on a permanent basis.
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Descamex, Mexico
First decaffeination plant in Latin America, operational since 1980. Descamex is specialised in the processing, sale and export of organic and conventional decaffeinated coffee beans.
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Cafesca, Mexico
Established in 2011, Cafesca is the only freeze dried coffee factory in Mexico and Central America. It offers tailor-made coffee solutions: freeze-dried coffee, roasted & ground, functional coffee, and freeze-dried cold brew.
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Our sustainability commitments
Creating a secure future for coffee
As innovators and industry leaders, ECOM came early to sustainability. Our on-the-ground sustainability arm, SMS, was established in 2007. SMS works with farmers and their communities to create sustainable value, improve livelihoods and provide global solutions that help farmers, our customers and our people on our collective journey to carbon neutrality. ECOM has pledged to become Net Zero by 2050.
Improve
farmer and worker livelihoods by empowering them and their communities to optimise their profitability and by eliminating breaches of human rights through proper risk identification and remediation.
Protect
and regenerate nature by optimising our natural resource management practices, improving farmer resilience to the effects of climate change and achieving Net Zero carbon by 2050.
Manage
change by ensuring transparency and responsibility in our supply chains.
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Knowledge
Supremo encyclopedia
Supremo NV was incorporated in 1989 in Bruges, heart of Flemish and European trade in the 16th century.
In 2013, Supremo integrates into the ECOM Group, thus expanding its access to critical knowledge, market information, and sourcing infrastructure.
Supremo have developed this Coffee Encyclopedia, and hope that it can become a bookmark for many.
Supremo Coffee Encyclopedia
Services
ECOM Risk management
We are offering to our customers diversified hedging strategies. With offices across the globe, our specialist company ECOM Risk Management helps them protect their production margins and budgets but also to generate superior risk-weighted hedging returns.
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