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Coffee Empire Industry

• The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation
(FNC) was created in 1927 as a non-profit
rganization to represent and support Colom-
bian coffee farmers. It has promoted and
defended the renown of Café de Colombia
around the world. From the very beginning,
the FNC strictly stuck to the criterion of
exporting coffee under the highest quality
standards . Local producers are very proud of
their high-quality coffee. Cooperatives
• The FNC’s headquarters are located in Bogota, Colombia. In Colombia, about 530 purchase points belong to
It has also offices around the world: Amsterdam (for Europe), different coffee Cooperatives. Since coffee can be harvested and
New York, Tokyo and Shanghai. In your everyday life, have you collected all year round in Colombia, Cooperatives are open as
ever seen the logo of the FNC or Café de Colombia? well to support farmers. Every day coffee is purchased from
• The FNC’s mission covers the whole process from seed to farmers at fair and transparent prices.
cup. It starts 88 years ago, representing now 560,000 families
involved in coffee growing in Colombia. Coffee farming Cenicafe
provides over 750,000 direct jobs in the rural sector. The FNC There are over 100 scientists working in the National
offers a wide portfolio of high-quality coffees, exporting not Coffee Research Center (Cenicafé). They work on climate,
only green coffee, but specialty and added-value coffees, such breeding, botany, environment and other fields related to coffee
as soluble coffee through Buencafé, and operating the Juan growing, especially developing coffee varietals that help the
Valdez® Café coffee shop chain and brand, which is the only plant resist diseases such as rust and raise productivity with a
one of global relevance owned by coffee producers. The chain high-quality cup profile.
has 106 stores in over 15 countries besides Colombia, mainly
Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Malaysia, El Salvador, Panama, South Almacafe
Korea, Spain and the USA, besides over 230 stores in Colombia.
Almacafé is an important branch of the FNC that
assesses, classifies and stores coffee beans. It is basically in charge
of logistics and quality control for exporting coffee.

Manuel Mejía Foundation
As educational branch of the FNC (like a coffee
university), it helps train the extensionists (agricultural
technicians) and coffee growers, transferring the knowledge
developed by Cenicafé. It is also a very important place to
consult about coffee farming.

The FNC’s branches

Committees
Coffee Growers Committees are the bridge that con- Buencafe
nects coffee farms and the FNC, communicating and imple- Buencafé is the largest freeze-dried Arabica coffee
menting national coffee policies. The committees also represent factory, which owns the most advanced production technology,
the farmers’ interests and speak on their behalf, implementing applying the freeze-drying method. Based on this technology,
projects of infrastructure, education, sanity, environment and coffee flavor and aroma are preserved in instant coffee to the
welfare, among others. highest extent.
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