Coffee Value Chain
At EFICO, we connect producers and roasters across the coffee value chain. Our local offices in Ethiopia, Brazil and Guatemala give us a year-round presence at origin and keep us close to our coffee farmer partners.
We import green coffee into Europe, store it and deliver it to customers through our sales offices in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Eastern Europe. Our teams combine origin knowledge with trade, logistics and market expertise to bring coffee from origin to roaster.
Food integrity, quality, safety and authenticity are fundamental to the coffees we source and offer. We work towards sustainable and traceable value chains that support farmers’ livelihoods and prosperity while reducing our environmental impact.
Risk Management
To get your beloved coffee beans to their destination for coffee lovers to enjoy, multiple risks pop up along the way and need to be handled with great care. This can go from logistic risks up to security, financial, quality, macro-economic, and other supply chain risks. Our team of experts has in-depth knowledge to manage these risks adequately and accurately.
Supply Chain Management
We manage our supply chain in the most effective and efficient way, maximizing customer value.
With our origin offices and by working closely together with our coffee farmer partners we have a global reach and can source coffee from all over the world. We source locally and can provide you with green coffee and tailor-made supply chain solutions globally. In our Belgian-based warehouse SEABRIDGE, your coffee will be stored under the best conditions, and handled in the best possible way.
Sustainable solutions
We embed sustainability throughout our value chain and provide tools to help clients and suppliers put responsible business practices into action. The United Nations Global Compact and Sustainable Development Goals provide the framework for EFICO’s corporate responsibility.
We assess and monitor supplier and customer performance, while maintaining an open dialogue to improve products and align service requirements. Together with our partners, we work in line with our Supplier Code Principles.
We continuously challenge our teams and stakeholders to improve, learn and adapt. By embracing change, we encourage innovation and keep moving forward.
Future proof
We envision a coffee future where origin and flavour diversity, economic viability and stability are key. A sustainable coffee future is a future where the industry as a whole invests in itself for the long run, valuing all people along the journey.
This is why we highly value our Partnerships with World Coffee Research, Global Coffee Platform and Sustainable Coffee Challenge. Within these frameworks, there is also room for pre-competitive collaboration. We are also active members of several initiatives supporting sustainable development, including Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance/UTZ, Organic, 4C.
Overall, we adhere a lot of importance to the legislative framework, both globally and locally. The European Green Deal or EU mandatory Due Diligence legislation are indispensable to a more sustainable future and display a bold commitment to the transformation of global value chains by promoting new standards for sustainable growth.