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DILLANOS COFFEE ROASTERS
A passion for entrepreneurship and a drive for success, David Morris set out on a venture and founded Dillanos Coffee Roasters. Dillanos, named after his oldest son Dillon, opened as an espresso cart in 1992 in front of the well-known Sunshine Mart, a convenience store located in Buckley, Washington. The Sunshine Mart, which still stands today, was owned, and operated by Howard Heyer, David’s stepfather. Howard, or Howie as many called him, took a chance with David and his coffee cart and the two developed a business partnership. The following year they set out and opened two more retail locations and would begin to make decisions that would shape the business for years to come.
n 1994, David’s brother, Chris Heyer, joined the family business at the age of 19 and bought into the company as a third owner. Together they kicked off Dillanos Coffee Roasters as a wholesale coffee roasting operation. They soon sold the retail stores and put all their energy into wholesale roasting at a new location in Sumner, Washington. As the family business continued to expand, Dillanos Coffee Roasters grew from a tiny three-person outfit to a nationally recognized roaster with more than 1,500 wholesale locations serving Dillanos Coffee across the country.
BLACK RIFLE COFFEE
Black Rifle Coffee Company serves coffee and culture to people who love America.
We develop our explosive roast profiles with the same mission focus we learned as military members serving this great country and are committed to supporting veterans, law enforcement, and first responders.
Founded in 2014 by former U.S. Army Green Beret Evan Hafer, Black Rifle Coffee Company was built upon the mission to serve coffee and culture to people who love America.
Black Rifle stands for more than high-quality coffee. We are a Veteran-founded business operated by principled men and women who honor those who protect, defend, and support our country
A large part of Black Rifle Coffee Company's success is due to the outstanding work ethic and discipline of our Veteran employees. As we grow, we're committed to hiring 10,000 Veterans to provide opportunities to the military community that helped build us.
As a Veteran-founded and operated company, Black Rifle Coffee also strives to help other service-members successfully transition from the military into entrepreneurship. We provide assistance to Veterans who seek to launch a business of their own, helping more companies like Black Rifle Coffee Company become a reality.
CANCINO FAMILY FARM
As the sun breaks over the glorious green slopes of Mauna Loa in Kona, Hawaii, you will find Cancino Family Farm hard at work. The land itself seems to wake up and greet the sun, as the dew mist lifts coffee plants perk up after the dark night. Birds, bees, pigs, and a myriad of insects join us as we work.
You see, it isn’t just a bit of land that provides the delicious coffee we grow; it is the unique environment of Kona that infuses a richness in every bean. Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, is known for its rich volcanic soil. Farming is a noble effort, intertwining people’s lives with the land to form a bond unlike any other. Work and reward go hand in hand when it comes to farming. It is one of the vocations that we deeply respect because successful crops depend on courage, planning, learning, dedication and a lot of cooperation from mother nature.
Many years ago, Cancino Family Farm began by focusing on small, under performing farms helping them reach their full potential. We grew, farm after farm, by replanting, practicing good management, diversifying our farming methods, and protecting the environment. Rather than taxing the land to produce the maximum by chemicals and mechanical equipment, our approach is to help the ecology flourish while still producing higher yields. We have grown to over 350 acres under cultivation and continue to assist other farms to achieve the same success. In this way, we also help grow a community. Our approach reflects family values: when the community prospers, this is a benefit to all families.
An important aspect of Kona coffee quality is the harvesting and processing of the beans. During the coffee harvest our pickers hand select the ripest and reddest coffee cherries. Each evening we pulp the cherry and lay the parchment on our dying platforms. A few days drying under Hawaii’s tropical sunshine ensures a naturally flavorful cup of coffee. Our state-of-the-art dry mill quickly turns the parchment into quality green beans. We roast them in small batches to ensure the freshest and highest quality cup.
MELITTA
The Melitta name has stood for passion and quality for over 100 years. In 1908, Melitta filters and drip coffee were founded by a housewife in Dresden, Germany. Melitta Bentz was in search of a better way to make a cleaner cup of coffee. So she punched holes in a brass pot and used a piece of paper to create a two-part filtration system. She put the pot on a cup, filled it with ground coffee and poured in hot water. The coffee filter and drip coffee were born. More than 100 years later, Melitta Bentz’s innovation remains the precursor to all modern pour-over and drip coffee brewing worldwide.
Melitta is dedicated to providing the ultimate coffee experience with gourmet coffees, filters and coffeemakers. Melitta Worldwide offers goods and services for coffee pleasure, as well as food storage, food preparation and cleaning in Europe, North and South America and Asia.
Melitta USA was established in 1963 and is headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, where we produce our industry-leading coffee filters. Melitta USA handles the retail sales of Melitta coffee, coffee filters and coffee preparation products in the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean. Since 1964, coffee has been roasted in Cherry Hill, New Jersey at our coffee roastery.
At Melitta, we are dedicated to offering superior products and we maintain a genuine commitment to exceed customer and industry expectations. We owe our success to our loyal customers and devoted employees, who embody an unyielding passion for the perfect cup of coffee.
COLOMBIAN COFFEE FEDERATION
In 1927, the Colombian coffee growers joined together to create an organization that would represent them nationally and internationally, work for their well-being and improve their quality of life. Through an extensive network of cooperatives – key allies – we guarantee producers the permanent purchase of their coffee at the best base market price, calculated transparently, paid in cash, in places close to their farms and throughout the entire year.
Our goal is to position Colombian coffee in the national and international markets as a great consumption experience because it is a product highly sought after by customers and final consumers. This is due to its high quality standards and the wonderful stories behind Colombian coffee-growing families. Colombian coffee growers, through the FNC, have the National Coffee Research Center (Cenicafé), which generates competitive and sustainable knowledge and technologies focused on increasing productivity, competitiveness and profitability of the country’s coffee farming, which are then transferred to all coffee growers through the Extension Service.
Through educational processes and through the Extension Service we make transfer of technology to coffee growers easier, contributing to profitability of coffee farming and the well-being of producers, their families and communities, promoting participation in technical, economic, environmental and social programs. Thanks to the efficiency and transparency with which the FNC executes projects for coffee growers in the economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions, we have become a key partner of public and private, national and international entities in implementing projects that impact the well-being and development of large rural areas of the country.
INTERNATIONAL COFFEE CORPORATION
On September 30, 1977, the J. Aron Company, one of the nation’s largest coffee traders, discontinued its coffee business in New Orleans. Our company was founded the very next day, October 1, 1977, as ten former Aron employees formed the International Coffee Corporation, working in the same offices and desks vacated by J. Aron at 336 Magazine Street.
The Madary family subsequently acquired the interest of the other owners, and today controls the Company. We recently moved from our long-time office on 300 Magazine (a building that was at the heart of the New Orleans coffee trade for more than a century, which housed previous coffee importers such as Leon Israel Brothers and the Cargill Corporation) to our new office in the suburbs of New Orleans at 734 Martin Behrman Ave., Metairie LA. Over the course of time, other members of the Madary family joined the company: Matt, William III, Marie, Jude and Greg.
Since the future holds the same opportunities as the past 35 years, ICC looks with optimism towards our golden anniversary, 2027. Our team is in place: ready, willing, and able to provide green coffee from every worldwide origin and provide the service and contractual responsibility expected by our customers from experienced coffee merchants. We look forward to sharing this experience, along with our knowledge and passion for coffee, with you.
Pacific Coast Coffee Association
PCCA
Pacific Coast Coffee Association
PCCA
Pacific Coast Coffee Association
PCCA
Pacific Coast Coffee Association
PCCA