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COQUA

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.
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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

Quality Coffee Trade/Marketing

Capacity Building Services

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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