Vantera Coffee Bean Company (VCBC), Black American and Black African producers and distributors of "the world's original and best coffees," today announced that it is launching Ethiopian coffees, vowing to bring substantially more of its coffees to the U.S. and around the globe.
Vantera Coffee Bean Company was started in early 2020 by some of the Vantera Holding Corp and Haileslassie Ambaye Industries executives, a group of highly skilled and experienced men and women. VCBC, (a member of Vantera Commodities Group, LLC family of companies), was established for the purpose of the development, production, sales and distribution of high-quality coffee beans, which are sold under the Vantera Coffee Bean Company label or other trade styles. Haileslassie Ambaye, who was the founding chairman of Vantera, brought over 25 years of invaluable coffee business experience and expertise to the Vantera startup. After the majority of VCBC was recently acquired by Vantera Holding Corp, Don Polk, who was vice chairman of VCBC, became the executive chairman of Vantera. The company is also owned by a leading Ethiopian coffee producer/Wonberta General Import and Export PLC and a leading Ethiopian logistics company, Amelework Tesfay Import/Export, giving VCBC over 50 years of combined coffee industry experience.
The original coffee company was founded in 2019 by Ethiopian American family members, including Vantera COO Gaim Hagos, selling Ethiopian specialty coffee primarily to distributors under the Hydasey Coffee label. Vantera’s aim is to be a primary “go-to” company for the best coffee Ethiopia has to offer, as well as other high-quality coffees grown in Africa or other regions around the world. Vantera sources its green coffee beans directly from thousands of farmers through its stakeholders in Ethiopia. The company is directly involved in every step of the way until the final green or roasted beans are delivered to its customers. Vantera ensures consistent high quality coffee beans by maintaining strict quality control on the ground via vertical integration. In addition to high quality Ethiopian coffees, which is their primary focus, VCBC has, or is developing, qualified sources of other high-quality coffees, through strong “established relationships”, in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Costa Rica and Indonesia. VCBC is also a coffee supplier or supply partner to high profile celebrities in the United States, and soon abroad.
Vantera is committed to solely deal with high-quality arabica green coffee beans, and as such, the company has a vested interest in the wellbeing of the farmers. VCBC also has a social, ethical, moral, paternal, maternal, and ancestral obligation to support its farms and workers. “We have a special affinity to the women who work for and with us and intend to develop a program that will enrich, grow and protect the life, future, education, health and net worth for women and their children” stated Gaim Hagos. This initiative launched in Ethiopia early February 2022.
“Vantera Coffee Bean Company is also committed to giving back in substantive ways, in the United States, various African countries and other communities around the world,” says Executive Chairman Don Polk. He stated that Vantera will also support and help build minority owned companies – living up to their mantra: “Build the business that builds the people, who tell the stories, that build hope."
“We implore corporate America and millions of consumers to support VCBC and to watch us live up to our solemn promise to help build communities and to make things right." continued Polk, Executive Chairman of Vantera Coffee Bean Company. "VCBC developed its company/business and wherewithal to do business with primary corporations/multinationals. There’s no other Black owned company in the coffee business in America with the infrastructure, product certifications, verticality and wherewithal to scale — to meet the challenge of getting an equitable share of the coffee industry business. VCBC didn’t start off with the capability to be a global business. We built that from the ground up."
For more information, email [email protected], call (866) 922-2209, or visit https://vanteracoffeebeancompany.com.
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