e-Coffee
The Coffee Guide - Online!
This is a multilingual web site in English, Spanish and French ‘for use by growers, processors, traders, exporters, coffee associations and people engaged in transport, finance, quality control, certification and other related sectors in coffee producing countries.’ It offers information on all aspects of the trade from the mainstream and niche markets for coffee, contracts, logistics, supply chain management, through to risk, quality, legal matters.
The website also hosts a question and answer facility where exporters can ask coffee experts specific questions about the trade.
Click here
to visit this site.
Internet Coffee Auctions
In December 1999 ITC held the world’s first Internet coffee auction.
Called the 'Cup of Excellence' ten Brazilian coffees, selected in a national competition, were offered at auction to 23 bidders from four continents.
The producers were able to higher prices on the basis of quality obtained from care at all levels of growing and processing and the auctions have become a strong e-marketplace for small producers, who have used Internet technology to create a sellers market in an area traditionally dominated by the buying power of multinational companies
Since the first auction three more countries have started holding similar auctions with more likely to follow.
Click
here for ITC's Coffee Products web site.
Click
here for the Cup of Excellence web site.
