Who ships it, roasts it, pours it
Find any of 760 coffee businesses: the importers who buy green coffee, the roasters, the chains that pour it, the companies that make the machines, and the bodies that set the rules. Every listing shows its sources, and none is paid for.
No business matches that. Try a city, a state, a country or part of a name.
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Coffee passes through three hands on its way to the cup: an importer ships it, a roaster roasts it, a café pours it. Equipment makers supply every step, and trade bodies set the rules.
Green coffee importers
84listedThey buy raw, unroasted coffee in producing countries and sell it to roasters. The 84 here are based in 8 countries.
Where they buy from
Importers naming each country. 15 of 84 publish a list.
6 trading groups own 17 of them. The largest, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), has 6 companies here.
See all 84 importers
US roasters
442listedRoasters certified on the USDA Organic register or with their own public websites, in 46 states and territories.
States with the most
Roasters listed in each state.
The oldest with a known founding year is Reily Foods, founded in 1902.
See roasters on a map
US coffee chains
60listedEvery chain with ten or more US shops, with shop counts by state, franchise costs and menus.
The largest
US locations, from each chain's own count or filings.
Starbucks and Dunkin' together have 79% of the 34,425 US locations counted. Also: rankings and chains by state.
See all 60 chains
Equipment makers
163listedThe companies that build espresso machines, grinders, brewers, roasting machines and water systems: 1,377 models between them, each with its own record.
Where they are based
Makers with a head office in each country.
What they make
Makers in each field. Many work in several.
The oldest is WMF, founded in 1853, followed by Bühler (1860) and Probat (1868).
See all 163 makers
Trade bodies and competitions
10listedThe groups behind grading and contract standards, the trade's statistics, coffee research and the championships.
- 1911 National Coffee Association of USA (NCA) The oldest US coffee trade association
- 1922 Green Coffee Association (GCA) Keeps the standard US green coffee contract and arbitrates disputes
- 1963 International Coffee Organization (ICO) Brings exporting and importing governments together; keeps world coffee statistics
- 1996 Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) Created the Q coffee grading system; now teaches post-harvest processing
- 2000 World Barista Championship (WBC) The annual world final for national barista champions
- 2017 Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Specialty coffee's membership body: standards, education, trade shows
- 2018 Barista Guild (BG) The SCA's professional community for baristas
- Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) Runs the Cup of Excellence competitions and auctions
- World Coffee Championships (WCC) The SCA's seven world-level coffee competitions
- World Coffee Research (WCR) Industry-funded research on coffee breeding and varieties
The 2026 World Barista Champion is Pan Wei of China. See all 26 finals.
Also listed: Burman Coffee Traders, which supplies home roasters.
How old are they?
Each dot is one business, placed at the year it was founded. Taller stacks mean several were founded within a few years of each other. Only businesses with a sourced founding year appear; point at a dot for its name.
How this register is built
Importers and roasters come from the USDA Organic INTEGRITY register and the businesses' own sites; makers from their own pages and documents; chains from franchise disclosures, filings and their own store locators. Nothing is paid for, and a figure that could not be checked is left blank rather than guessed. Methodology · Sources