Resources

• Case study

Pre-contracting helped this roaster secure coffee at the best price

Quarter Horse Coffee in the UK is pre-contracting more and more. By acting fast, they avoided the price rally in 2021 following the Brazilian frost. They also secured one of the few lots available to source directly from Costa Rica in 2022 despite the country’s lower production, which led to most coffees selling out.
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• Trends

Algrano Market Trends Review 2022

The new Algrano Market Review highlights the stabilising effect of long-term relationships on coffee supply and prices with more than 60% of surveyed coffee roasters and producers wanting to invest more in direct trade practices in 2022.
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• Trends

Beyond wholesale: three ways to boost your coffee sales

Learn how innovative UK roasters are exploring new sales channels, from paid ads to the shop local movement, to grow their sales. Bonus: three ideas to diversify your offer and how to make your brand stand out online!
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• Case study

Girls Who Grind Coffee & Bean Voyage: why partners should match your values

The idea of customer acquisition based on rare coffees is getting outdated. This is why the UK female roastery Girls Who Grind Coffee built a brand with values that consumers want to support. And they can’t do that without the help of matching suppliers like Bean Voyage.
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• Costa Rica

• Trends
• Interview

Direct sourcing: how to solve the 4 most common problems

Don't panic. Learn how to solve quality issues, avoid shipping delays, bridge language barriers and make relationships last with two seasoned roasters: the founder of Neues Schwarz and the green buyer of Ozone and Hasbean.
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• Case study

Why Blum Kaffee puts relationships before quality

Swiss roaster impressed restaurants and grew in hospitality despite the pandemic. Their secret? A fruity Ethiopian natural produced by Boledu Coffee and a relationship-driven sourcing model that shows their customers what they are really about.
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• Ethiopia

• Trends

Nine ways to better plan your green supply

The Head of Coffee of Henauer Kaffee and Plot Roasting’s Green Buyer share their basic forecasting principles so that you can start a sourcing plan to keep the green flowing at the right time, in the right amount and with the right quality.
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• Case study

Rave Coffee, Old Spike Roasters and the rising popularity of Tanzanian beans

The two roasters describe how their latest Tanzanian single-origins sourced through Algrano were customer favourites with nothing shy from the quality of Kenyan or Ethiopian lots, sustainable farming practices, a good shelf-life with a stable acidity until the last batches and an added bonus: outstanding synergy with milk.
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• Tanzania

• Trends

Your Guide to Sourcing and Selling Green Coffee Directly

Download the guide to learn. Producers: about buyers’ needs and how to make offers they can’t resist. Roasters: find out how to communicate and plan, build direct relationships, and access the best lots that never make it to the offer lists.
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• Brazil
• Colombia
• Indonesia
• Ethiopia
• India
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• Peru
• Honduras
• Uganda
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Ecuador
• Tanzania
• Kenya
• Rwanda
• Bolivia

• Trends

Why is best to pre-contract your favourite lots in the early days of the harvest

One of the jobs of green buyers is to win the race for coffee to make sure their roastery has the coffees loved by their customers year after year. Get ahead of the sourcing game and support your suppliers by pre-contracting! You know the saying: the early roaster catches the beans...
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• Blog

The principles behind Algrano's direct sourcing

To source directly means simply that it is the producers who make you offers when the coffees are still in their possession. The quality, price and samples you get come straight from them. This model has a lot of potential but it is only as ethical as the roaster who embraces it. Below are the principles we endorse to make direct sourcing a tool for positive change.
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What is direct sourcing? Is it the same thing as direct trade?

Life is too short to discuss what direct trade is, so call it what you want. However, as the industry moves away from the slippery concept, we choose to highlight a sourcing model that is more accurate to what really happens in the supply chain and that gets right the things that direct trade got wrong.
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