Calcot

What Calcot does

Calcot is a privately held U.S. agricultural firm headquartered in Bakersfield, California, that has operated continuously since 1927. The firm focuses on cotton marketing, sales, shipping operations, and warehousing services, functioning as a post-harvest intermediary that aggregates cotton from growers and moves it through to buyers.

The company's core activity is commodity cotton intermediation: it markets and sells pooled cotton, operates warehousing capacity for bale storage, and manages shipping logistics to deliver product to customers. Calcot employs between 51 and 100 people, indicating a mid-sized operation relative to the broader agribusiness sector but one with a focused, vertically defined service scope around the cotton supply chain.

Calcot's business model is consistent with a grower-oriented cotton marketing cooperative: revenue is generated from the spread between pooled cotton purchase and resale prices, plus fees on handling, storage, and shipping services. The firm serves cotton growers (as members/shippers) and downstream buyers including textile mills and exporters, though specific customer and member details are not disclosed in the available source material. The website (calcot.com) was inaccessible beyond a verification page, limiting visibility into current product detail, pricing structure, and digital infrastructure.

Name

Calcot

Website

https://calcot.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1927

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Calcot is a Bakersfield, California-based agricultural firm, founded in 1927, that markets, sells, ships, and warehouses cotton on behalf of growers, serving as a post-harvest intermediary in the U.S. cotton supply chain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Cooperative Services

NAICS

Other Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers (424590)

SIC

Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Feedstock Procurement, Contracting & Trading (Offtake, Spot Markets, Brokerage) (EUAAAFAJ)

Keywords

• Cotton marketing
• Cotton warehousing
• Cotton shipping logistics
• Agricultural commodity sales
• Cotton grower services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bakersfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Core offering

Calcot is an agriculture firm that provides cotton marketing, sales, shipping operations, and warehousing services to cotton growers. The company acts as an intermediary between cotton producers and buyers, handling the post-harvest logistics — including storage, transportation, and sale — of raw cotton on behalf of its grower clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cotton Marketing Services Marketing of raw cotton on behalf of cotton growers, connecting producer supply with cotton buyers and handling sale negotiation. Intended for commercial cotton growers and farming operations.
• Cotton Sales Services Sales intermediation for raw cotton, executing transactions between cotton growers and buyers. Intended for cotton growers seeking market access and cotton buyers sourcing supply.
• Cotton Shipping Operations Coordination and execution of shipping operations for raw cotton bales from warehouse to buyer destinations. Intended for cotton growers and cotton buyers requiring transport logistics.
• Cotton Warehousing Services Physical storage of raw cotton bales in company-operated or affiliated warehouses between harvest and sale. Intended for cotton growers needing post-harvest storage capacity.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• The Seam: The Seam operates a digital cotton trading and data platform that enables growers to market cotton directly to buyers, representing both a complementary channel and a competitive threat to traditional marketers like Calcot.

Broad incumbents

• Louis Dreyfus Company: Louis Dreyfus is a global merchandiser of cotton (including via Allenberg Cotton Co.) alongside other soft commodities, competing with Calcot on cotton sourcing and international sales while operating a much broader portfolio.
• ECOM Cotton: ECOM is a global cotton merchant with significant US origination; comparable to Calcot on cotton merchandising but operating a much larger international footprint.
• Olam Cotton: Olam (now ofi) is a major global cotton merchant with origination across multiple continents; it competes with Calcot for US cotton but at vastly greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Cargill Cotton: Cargill's cotton business is part of a global agricultural commodities giant offering cotton merchandising worldwide; it competes with Calcot for US and export cotton flows but operates at far greater scale and across many commodities.

Direct peers

• Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA): PCCA is a grower-owned cotton marketing cooperative serving Texas and Oklahoma growers with marketing, warehousing, and related services — directly comparable to Calcot's business model and service offering.
• Staplcotn: Staplcotn is one of the oldest US cotton marketing cooperatives, providing pooling, marketing, and warehousing services to Mid-South and Southeast growers — a near-identical peer to Calcot in structure and function.
• Cotton Growers Cooperative: Cotton Growers Cooperative is a smaller grower-owned cotton marketing cooperative operating in the Midsouth, directly comparable in cooperative structure and service offering to Calcot.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/calcotltd
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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