About ICT our Green Bean Supplier

At International Coffee Traders, we place strong emphasis on sustainability, ethical practices, and long term security for producers. At the heart of our ability to source green coffee beans are the relationships we have developed with coffee producers around the globe. Working directly with producers at the farm level provides us with access to the beans our roasting customers require. However our philosophy is that these relationships should be mutually beneficial.

Our commitment to buy green beans enables producers to invest in their farms, resulting in improved bean quality and increased crop volumes. These benefits extend across entire communities. The stability of our relationships provides producers with the confidence to invest in hiring local workers and to offer long term employment prospects. It also means long term, environmentally responsible farming practices can be applied.

International Coffee Traders have a philosophy and a practice of ensuring Fair Pricing, by negotiating prices directly with the producers, taking into consideration a number of factors such as coffee bean quality, production costs, and current market prices. ICT Fair Pricing is much more than a business, it’s a way of life and is built on trust and ethics. Producers will have an expectation of the price level they expect to achieve and our crop knowledge and broad market perspective enables a fair and competitive negotiation process. Ultimately, producers are offered a price that reflects/acknowledges the quality of their crop, and not simply a price set/dictated by a distant coffee futures market.