Welcome to COQUA Trading PLC
Your Gateway to Ethiopian Coffee Excellence
About Us
Company Background
Established in October 2016, COQUA Trading is dedicated to modernizing the coffee sector by leveraging the expertise of professionals hailing from Ethiopia’s major coffee-producing regions. Our team is comprised of highly qualified individuals with extensive experience in coffee quality, agronomy, and marketing, spanning across various sectors including public, private, and NGO realms. By sourcing the finest Ethiopian coffee, including specialty blends, from the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) and providing comprehensive coffee cupping laboratory services to buyers, we aim to revolutionize the export trade. As an independent and nonexclusive agent, our mission is to facilitate quality assurance and timely export service delivery, ensuring a sustainable solution for all stakeholders involved.
Company Rationale
Based on numerous studies, the Ethiopian coffee export trade is compounded with number of challenges of Coffee quality, traceability, impeded export process, coffee type mix ups and late shipments, lack of required capacity among others. Taking these challenges of the sector into account, COQUA TRADING PLC is designed with a strategy of using innovative management practices to create a sustainable solution by serving as a bridge between coffee producers, unions & buyer, sourcing the best of Ethiopian coffee (incl. specialty coffee) from ECX and providing coffee cupping laboratory services to buyers. Furthermore, as an Export trade auxiliary, and with a business aim of providing an innovative quality export trade support (commercial, quality & marketing) services, the company acts as an independent, nonexclusive agent to the importer/s to facilitate the quality assurance and timely export service delivery.Services
State of The Art Coffee Cupping Laboratory
- Certified coffee cupping laboratory in Addis Ababa
- Provision of capacity building trainings and professional services
- Augmentation of quality monitoring and descriptive cupping exercises
- Related studies and research endeavors
Quality Coffee Trade/Marketing
- Reading and sales operations support
- Promotional activities
- Representation at international trade fairs/trade shows
- Personal selling
- Sales service charge/commission
Capacity Building Services
- Wet mill support for harvest and post-harvest processes
- Trainings in green evaluation and cupping for beginner cuppers
- Best agronomy and farm management trainings for farmers
- Coffee quality and marketing trainings at expert and farmer levels
- Support services for attaining best practice certifications
Projects
TNS/CPI/Peets Coffee & Tea (Coffee Harvest Support Project)
Coffee Partners Initiative (CPI) project implementation support of wet mill, Techno Serve Ethiopia.
Mejang zone Coffee Profiling and Promotion Project
Mejang Forest Livelihood Improvement Project (November 2017- November2018)
CQI Capacity Building Gender & local support
Bench Sheka (June 2019 September 2019)
TNS Union Capacity Building
Coffee export process TorbanAnfilo, Sorgeba, KetaMuduga (July 2018- October 2018)
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Contact Us
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Head Office Kera Road:
Metamen Building (2nd floor, Room No.202/201) -
Cell phone:
+251 911 439 162
+251 917 829 194 -
E-mail:
info@coquatrading.com