Sucafina
Sucafina is a privately held, Geneva-based multinational coffee merchant that sources green coffee from 42 countries and supplies roasters globally through specialty and commercial offerings, sustainability certifications, and vertically integrated instant and private-label subsidiaries.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1977
- HeadquartersAntwerp, Belgium
- Headcount1,001–5,000
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Sucafina does
Sucafina SA is a privately held multinational coffee merchant headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1977 with a family tradition in commodities dating back to 1905. The company sources green (unroasted) coffee beans from origin countries and distributes them to roasters across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, operating 67 locations in 42 countries with 60 washing stations, bonded warehouses in Antwerp, the UK, Dublin, and Dubai, and relationships with 214,313 certified farmers. Its offering spans specialty macrolot to microlot coffee, multiple third-party certifications (Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, Fairtrade Organic, Organic), and the proprietary IMPACT responsible-sourcing standard; its portfolio also includes instant coffee (Sucafina Instant), private-label brands (Beyers Koffie, TB Brown), and relationship coffee (Sustainable Harvest).
Revenue is generated through per-transaction green coffee trading, with quote-based pricing per unit (22-70kg bag or box), minimum order of one unit, and future-delivery contracts for price hedging. The go-to-market is account-based B2B sales with regional websites for North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, supported by local sales teams, bonded warehouses, and a network of storage partners (Pacorini, AGC, CWT, Commodity Centre, Seabridge, DMCC). Customer segments are horizontal across roasters — from small specialty roasters to large commercial buyers — plus producers/farmers at origin and industrial/instant coffee buyers served through the Sucafina Instant channel; the company is contractually restricted to supplying roaster and related-business customers, not home consumers.
Technically, Sucafina operates a vertically integrated Farm-to-Roaster stack combining origin washing stations, a quality-control laboratory equipped with AkVo Pro+, Roest, Ikawa, Mahlkönig EK43, Sinar Bean pro 6070, Aqualab PAWKIT, VST III, and Colortrack instruments; an in-house IMPACT and IMPACT Beyond sustainability program; a digitalized trade-document pipeline that cut shipping instruction submission time from 10 to 4 minutes (per an ICC case study); and AI-processed satellite imagery (Airbus Pléiades/Pléiades Neo) under the multi-party Coffee Canopy Partnership to map coffee farms and identify deforestation risk for EU Deforestation Regulation compliance, with worldwide coverage targeted for 2027. The company is privately held, with CEO Nicolas A. Tamari, and operates without public financial disclosures.
Sucafina firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Sucafina
- Legal name
- Sucafina SA
- Website
- https://sucafina.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1977
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1,001–5,000 employees
- Short description
- Sucafina is a privately held, Geneva-based multinational coffee merchant that sources green coffee from 42 countries and supplies roasters globally through specialty and commercial offerings, sustainability certifications, and vertically integrated instant and private-label subsidiaries.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Sucafina industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Green Coffee Trading & Supply Chain
- NAICS
- Coffee and Tea Manufacturing (31192)
- SIC
- Beverages (2080)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Coffee (Roasted, Ground, Whole Bean) (CRADAHAG)
Keywords
Where Sucafina is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Antwerp
- HQ country
- Belgium
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices12 records
Markets served
Sucafina business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Green Coffee Trading (Specialty): Core business of trading green (unroasted) coffee beans from origin countries to roasters worldwide. Offers macrolot to microlot coffee across all quality tiers and budgets, sourced through vertically integrated supply chains with 60 washing stations globally. Coffees are stored in bonded/licensed warehouses in Antwerp, UK, Dublin, and Dubai for distribution.
- Certified & Verified Coffee Sales: Sale of coffees carrying third-party sustainability certifications including Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, Fairtrade Organic, Organic, and the company's own IMPACT and Impact Beyond standards.
- Sustainable Harvest (Subsidiary): Sucafina's Relationship Coffee subsidiary Sustainable Harvest operates as a specialty coffee importer/distributor, contributing to the group's diversified revenue streams.
- Sucafina Instant (Subsidiary): Bulk instant coffee solutions offered through the Sucafina Instant division, serving clients in the instant coffee segment across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America markets.
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels10 records
Sucafina product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Sucafina is a multinational coffee merchant that sources green (unroasted) coffee from origin countries through 60 washing stations and distributes it to roasters globally via bonded warehouses in Antwerp, UK, Dublin, and Dubai. Its portfolio spans specialty microlots to commercial-grade lots with seven sustainability certifications (including its own IMPACT standard), bulk instant coffee through Sucafina Instant, and private-label coffee through Beyers Koffie and TB Brown. The company sells exclusively to roasters and trade businesses, not to home consumers.
Product overview
Sucafina operates as a multinational coffee merchant founded in 1977, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of coffee products and services organized around three main pillars: Sucafina Green (green coffee trading across specialty and commercial segments), Sucafina Instant (bulk instant coffee solutions), and related sub-brands including Beyers Koffie and TB Brown. The IMPACT program serves as the company's responsible sourcing standard with verification and certification capabilities. The portfolio also includes acquired brands like Sustainable Harvest. Coffee offerings range from macrolot to microlot with various sustainability certifications including Fairtrade, Organic, Rainforest Alliance, and the company's proprietary IMPACT standard. The company operates across 67 locations in 42 countries with a network of 60 washing stations and relationships with over 214,000 certified farmers.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- IMPACT: Sucafina's responsible sourcing program that benefits farmers, traders, and roasters to create a fairer, more resilient coffee industry. Includes a sustainability standard guaranteeing compliance with environmental, social, and economic best practices.
- IMPACT Beyond
- Source Smart
- Farmgate Initiative
Products and services
- Sucafina Green (Green Coffee Trading) Core green coffee trading and merchandising business offering specialty and commercial coffees across macrolot to microlot sizing, sourced through 60+ washing stations and distributed via bonded warehouses to roasters worldwide.
- Sucafina Instant Bulk instant coffee solutions serving food service, retail, and manufacturing customers globally through a dedicated website and operations team.
- Beyers Koffie Private-label coffee brand specializing in customized coffee solutions for retail and food service customers in Europe.
- TB Brown Coffee trading and logistics brand operating within the Sucafina group, serving various market segments.
- Sustainable Harvest Relationship coffee importing and distribution business operating in North America, focusing on transparent direct trade relationships with coffee producers.
- Coffee Sourcing (Macrolot to Microlot) Green coffee sourcing service offering products across quality and budget spectrums from macrolot to microlot, with certifications including Fairtrade, Organic, Rainforest Alliance, Farmer Connect, EUDR, and Sucafina Originals.
- Coffee Canopy Partnership Satellite and AI-based deforestation monitoring initiative providing publicly available farm mapping and traceability data to support EUDR compliance and deforestation-free coffee supply chains.
Quantifiable outcome
- 214,313 certified farmers supported through the supply chain
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Sucafina
Customer profileNamed customers2 records
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Sucafina technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
AI capability3 records
Feature4 records
Sucafina partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
16 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and supporting.
- JDE Peet'sflagshipJDE Peet's, now part of Keurig Dr Pepper, is the initiator and lead of the Coffee Canopy Partnership, a global satellite-based mapping initiative to monitor deforestation linked to coffee farming. Sucafina is one of six founding coffee company partners. The initiative uses Airbus satellite imagery and AI to map coffee farms and identify deforestation risk, addressing EUDR compliance challenges. Initial East Africa pilot covers 1.2 million km² across six countries with worldwide coverage planned for 2027.
- Airbus Defence and SpacecoreAirbus is the technical partner providing Pléiades and Pléiades Neo satellite imagery for the Coffee Canopy Partnership. The satellite technology enables high-resolution mapping of coffee farms across East Africa and eventually globally to support deforestation-free supply chains under the EUDR.
- Louis Dreyfus CompanyflagshipMajor global coffee trader and founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership alongside JDE Peet's, Tchibo, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, Touton, Sucden, and Sucafina, collaborating on satellite-based deforestation monitoring.
- Neumann Kaffee GruppeflagshipMajor global green coffee trader and founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership, collaborating on industry-wide satellite mapping for EUDR compliance.
- TchiboflagshipMajor coffee roaster and founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership, collaborating on the satellite-based deforestation monitoring initiative.
- ToutonflagshipCoffee trader and founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership, contributing to the industry-wide satellite mapping initiative for deforestation-free supply chains.
- SucdenflagshipCommodity trader and founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership, collaborating with other major traders and roasters on satellite-based EUDR compliance monitoring.
- UK FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)supportingThe UK government's foreign development office provides support to the Coffee Canopy Partnership, contributing to the funding and policy framework for the satellite-based deforestation monitoring initiative.
- FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)supportingThe UN Food and Agriculture Organization supports the Coffee Canopy Partnership, lending institutional credibility and technical expertise to the satellite-based coffee farm mapping initiative.
- Specialty Coffee Association (SCA)coreSucafina Specialty is a partner in the SCA's Green Coffee Summit initiative, contributing to the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide which aggregates data from over 50,000 coffee contracts to provide price negotiation context. SCA's work addresses the challenge of green specialty coffee prices frequently failing to cover full production costs.
- PacorinisupportingWarehouse partner in Antwerp, Belgium providing bonded and licensed storage for Sucafina's green coffee inventory for EU customers.
- AGC Commodity StoresupportingWarehouse partner in Thurrock, UK providing bonded storage for Sucafina's green coffee for UK customers.
- CWT (Commodity Warehouse Tracing)supportingWarehouse partner in Thurrock and Liverpool, UK providing bonded storage and logistics for Sucafina's green coffee in the UK market.
- Commodity Centre (Great Braxted, UK)supportingWarehouse partner in Great Braxted, UK providing storage for Sucafina's green coffee inventory.
- DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodity Centre)supportingWarehouse partner in Dubai, UAE providing bonded storage for Sucafina's green coffee for Middle East customers.
- Seabridge (Dublin, Ireland)supportingWarehouse partner in Dublin, Ireland providing bonded storage for Sucafina's green coffee for Irish customers.
Scale indicators8 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Sucafina competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Touton: French-headquartered global coffee trader with vertically integrated operations from farm to roaster. Co-founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership alongside Sucafina, with directly overlapping business model and customer base.
- Louis Dreyfus Company: Global commodity merchant with a major coffee division that sources, trades, and distributes green coffee worldwide. Co-founding partner in the Coffee Canopy Partnership and competes with Sucafina across the same roaster customer base, though it operates as part of a broader diversified commodities platform.
- Café Imports: Specialty green coffee importer focused on relationship-based sourcing and microlot-to-macrolot offerings. Comparable to Sucafina's specialty segment in customer base (specialty roasters) and product positioning, though smaller in scale.
- Volcafe (ED&F Man): One of the world's largest coffee traders, operating across the full green coffee supply chain from origin to roaster. Direct competitor in green coffee trading with comparable global footprint and vertically integrated operations.
- Neumann Kaffee Gruppe: One of the world's largest green coffee traders with vertically integrated origin operations across multiple producing countries. Direct co-founding partner with Sucafina in the Coffee Canopy Partnership, making it the most directly comparable peer in scale, business model, and strategic positioning.
- ECOM Trading: Privately held global coffee merchant with vertically integrated operations spanning origin processing, trading, and distribution. Highly comparable to Sucafina in business model, with similar washing station assets and farmer networks across multiple origins.
- Olam Food Ingredients (ofi): Specialized ingredient solutions business spun out of Olam Group with a significant coffee platform including origin operations, trading, and soluble coffee manufacturing. Competes directly with Sucafina across green coffee, instant coffee, and private-label categories.
- InterAmerican Coffee: Specialty-focused green coffee importer and trader serving roasters in North America and Europe. Highly comparable to Sucafina's specialty trading arm, with overlapping customer base and similar emphasis on quality differentiation and origin relationships.
- Sucden: Paris-based commodity trader with a substantial coffee business spanning origination, trading, and distribution. Co-founding member of the Coffee Canopy Partnership with comparable scale and direct competition across the same global roaster customers.
Broad incumbents
- JDE Peet's: World's largest pure-play coffee and tea group by volume, now part of Keurig Dr Pepper. While primarily a roaster and consumer brand operator rather than a green coffee trader, it is a major buyer of Sucafina's coffee and the initiator of the Coffee Canopy Partnership, making it a strategically important counterpart and a benchmark for downstream value capture in the coffee value chain.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Sucafina social profiles
Digital presenceSucafina compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance7 records
Sucafina financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Sucafina leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Sucafina subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries7 records
Sucafina funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Sucafina M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments4 records
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Frequently asked questions about Sucafina
What does Sucafina do?
Sucafina is a multinational coffee merchant that sources green (unroasted) coffee from origin countries through 60 washing stations and distributes it to roasters globally via bonded warehouses in Antwerp, UK, Dublin, and Dubai. Its portfolio spans specialty microlots to commercial-grade lots with seven sustainability certifications (including its own IMPACT standard), bulk instant coffee through Sucafina Instant, and private-label coffee through Beyers Koffie and TB Brown. The company sells exclusively to roasters and trade businesses, not to home consumers.
Is Sucafina a public or private company?
Sucafina is a private company. It is classified as family owned and is currently operating.
When was Sucafina founded?
Sucafina was founded in 1977. It employs 1,001 to 5,000 people.
Where is Sucafina based?
Sucafina is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, in the Europe region.
How does Sucafina make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Green Coffee Trading (Specialty) is the primary driver. The others are certified & Verified Coffee Sales, sustainable Harvest (Subsidiary) and sucafina Instant (Subsidiary).
Who are Sucafina's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Touton, Louis Dreyfus Company, Café Imports, Volcafe (ED&F Man), Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, ECOM Trading, Olam Food Ingredients (ofi), InterAmerican Coffee and Sucden. JDE Peet's is listed as a broad incumbent.
Does Sucafina have an API?
No public API is recorded for Sucafina.
What industry is Sucafina in?
Sucafina's product category is Green Coffee Trading & Supply Chain. Its primary akta.pro industry code is CRADAHAG, Coffee (Roasted, Ground, Whole Bean). Its NAICS code is 31192 and its SIC code is 2080.