Café Granja la Esperanza

Name

Café Granja la Esperanza

Legal name

CAFÉ GRANJA LA ESPERANZA S.A. C.I.

Website

https://cafegranjalaesperanza.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1945

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Coffee

NAICS

Other Specialty Food Retailers (44529)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Tea, Coffee & Cocoa Farming (Beverage Specialty Crops) (AFAGAGAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Specialty Coffee & Tea Retail (Beans, Leaves, Accessories) (CRAHAGAI)

Keywords

• Specialty coffee beans
• Green coffee production
• Rare coffee varietals
• Colombian coffee farming
• Single origin coffee

Headquarters

HQ city

Cali

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Green Coffee Bean Sales: Direct sales of specialty green coffee beans to customers worldwide through e-commerce. Products sold include competition-level coffees, singular series, with order quantities from 1 to 48 lbs. International shipping available globally.
2. International Export Sales: International B2B sales of green coffee for export, governed by terms including FCA, FOB, CPT, and CIP Incoterms. Sales are final with no refunds policy. Payment methods include Letter of Credit, Documentary Collection, or Bank Transfer.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Café Granja la Esperanza grows, processes, and sells specialty green coffee beans from four farms in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The product line is built around rare varietals (Geisha, Pink Bourbon, Sudan Rume) offered as named single-lot SKUs in the Singular Series and Competition Selection collections. Sales are made through both a direct-to-consumer e-commerce storefront and a formal B2B international export channel serving specialty roasters worldwide.

Product overview

Café Granja La Esperanza is a multi-award-winning Colombian specialty coffee producer and exporter operating four farms (Cerro Azul, Las Margaritas, La Esperanza, and Potosí) in the Valle del Cauca region. The company offers a portfolio of specialty coffee products organized into two main collections: Competition Selection featuring premium award-winning lots like GEISHA NAPOLEÓN, SUDAN RUMÉ HYBRID WASHED, and PINK BOURBON WASHED; and Singular Series offering experimental and rare varietals including GEISHA NATURAL ANAEROBIC, MANDELA NATURAL ANAEROBIC, JAVA NATURAL, and PACAMARA NATURAL. All products are sold as green coffee beans in quantities from 1-48 lbs, sourced from their four Colombian farms with detailed traceability including variety, altitude, processing method, and cupping scores.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Geisha Napoleon

Quantifiable outcome

• Guaranteed cupping scores of 84+ points across all regional coffees
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• PT's CoffeecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRoasting partner and supporter who believed in Café Granja La Esperanza's dreams. Purchases and roasts their specialty coffees, contributing to their international recognition.
• ModcupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRoasting partner who supported and believed in Café Granja La Esperanza's specialty coffee production, helping distribute their award-winning coffees.
• Bird Rock Coffee RoasterscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRoasting partner who believed in Café Granja La Esperanza's vision and contributed to their market success with specialty coffee distribution.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Hacienda La Esmeralda: Panamanian Geisha pioneer and the most iconic competition-grade green coffee producer globally. Direct comparable: competes head-to-head on the same Geisha-led, award-driven specialty coffee circuit and sells rare green coffee lots to international roasters at premium prices.
• Finca El Injerto: Guatemalan specialty coffee estate with multiple Cup of Excellence wins. Direct comparable: family-operated single-estate producer of competition-grade green coffee with similar focus on rare varietals, in-house quality control, and direct-to-roaster export.
• Elida Estate: Boquete, Panama-based producer famous for Geisha and high-altitude rare varietals. Direct comparable: operates in the same ultra-premium Geisha category, competes on Coffee Review and Best of Panama rankings, and sells green coffee lots directly to international specialty roasters.
• Daterra Coffee: Brazilian specialty coffee estate and exporter with award-winning lots and proprietary processing innovations. Direct comparable: vertically integrated farm-to-export specialty producer with rigorous quality control and international roaster customer base.
• Frinsa Coffee: Colombian specialty coffee producer and exporter with experimental processing and rare varietal focus. Direct comparable: fellow Colombian estate competing in the same rare-varietal, experimental-processing category with direct green bean sales to global roasters.
• Gesha Village: Ethiopian estate operating at the geographic origin of the Geisha varietal. Direct comparable: ultra-premium Geisha-focused estate producer competing in the same auction and roaster-direct channels for competition-grade green coffee.
• Finca La Minita: Costa Rican Tarrazú specialty coffee estate with long-standing reputation for high-end green coffee. Direct comparable: vertically integrated estate producer selling traceable, quality-verified green coffee directly to specialty roasters at premium prices.

Broad incumbents

• Counter Culture Coffee: U.S.-based specialty coffee roaster and longtime buyer of premium Colombian and Panamanian green coffee. Indirect comparable: representative buyer and channel partner for Café Granja La Esperanza-style competition lots, illustrating the downstream side of the specialty value chain.
• Stumptown Coffee Roasters: Established U.S. specialty coffee roaster known for direct-trade relationships with premium single-origin producers. Indirect comparable: large specialty roaster that purchases rare Colombian and Geisha-grade green lots, representing the roaster-side counterpart to origin producers like Café Granja La Esperanza.
• Bird Rock Coffee Roasters: Award-winning U.S. specialty roaster already documented as a customer of Café Granja La Esperanza. Indirect comparable: downstream roaster counterpart in the premium green coffee value chain, illustrating the demand side for competition-grade Colombian lots.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cafegranjalaesperanza
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC8jQqvTt18cvnpJLTQODPBQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/CafeGranjaLaEsperanza
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cafe-granja-la-esperanza-s-a-c-i
• Instagraminstagram.com/cafegranjalaesperanza/?hl=es-la

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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