Consolidation is happening in green coffee trading, with increased competition, high interest rates and lower profit margins. Smaller green coffee traders will need to adapt in order to survive, either through wise financial partnerships or adapted business models.| Coffee Intelligence
Many of the world’s coffee traders are now running on fumes. After a decade of relatively benign markets, the past five years have been a blur of price shocks, shipping snarls, rising labour costs, and now the extra burden of US tariffs. Smaller exporters and cooperatives face the sharpest strain, raising the question of who survives and how.| Coffee Intelligence
In coffee shops around the world, we’re still seeing exciting, experimental microlots for those “in the know,” and blends of lower grade Brazilian coffees for milky espresso-based drinks. Once-profitable "mid-80s" lots that balanced quality and scale have become unviable in today’s market. With the C price holding above $2/lb, many mid-tier coffees now cost as much as experimental microlots did in the past. This is eroding margins and collapsing demand, leaving specialty importers an...| Coffee Intelligence