Prices for Retailers, Coffee Bars and Caterers

for delivery across the UK

new customers: advice and order line 01273 326862

September 2009. The last year has seen the first increases for over 5 years. Our policy has been to pass on only the net increase (as opposed to putting our normal percentage markup on the increases). Our new larger roaster has made savings we have shared with you. In all we are far more competitive than a year ago. However in these unstable times if the £ weakens more than the $ then prices will go up again. Fortunately that has not happened yet.

Retailers: our range of 250g organic Fairtrade pure arabica coffee valve packs

Listed by strength of roast: Italian blend, Espresso, Sumatran Blend, Decaffeinated, Mexican Blend, Colombian, Papua New Guinea, Ethiopian Yergacheffe, Costa Rica, House Blend, Guatemala blend, Peru, Mild Blend.

Can you sell around 80 x 250g coffee packs in a month? By ordering direct from us you can improve your margins and ensure that your coffee is as fresh as possible. We guarantee you will increase your overall coffee turnover with our range of thirteen 250gm valve packed organic fair trade pure arabica coffees. Orders can be mixed any way you want. We can even support own label (subject to a good volume and your compliance with the organic and Fairtrade regulations). We advise you to try the whole range initially, you may be surprised how many you stay with.

If you buy less at a time and are in the London area, we recommend using our wholesaler Marigold.

This range is only available in a handful of outlets at present, so your customers will have to come back to you to get more.

Loose beans, teas, confectionery for retailers

We can supply loose beans for retail. To see the wide range of roasts and origins available see our retail coffee list. We can do special roasts as well. We have an wide range of teas including black, green and herb teas, loose and in teabags. We also have fondant chocolate, cocoa powder and raw sugar either loose or packed with our label. Price discounts from retail are shown below, for a complete product list see our retail pages.

Coffee Bars and Caterers: delicious organic Fairtrade espresso blends

"Many coffee suppliers will offer free or low rental on a machine in return for buying their coffee. This can look like a great deal but the price of the coffee will be much higher than if you source it yourself. In the long run it is often better to buy your own machine... a reputable equipment dealer will be able to explain the many different options" - Artisan November 2008 (specialist magazine for delis and the fine food trade)

We could not have put it better ourselves. If you are using 10 kg of coffee or more per week, you would be crazy to go for a "free machine" deal. If you care about organic, Fairtrade, or just simply quality you may also be disappointed with what these package deals are offering. By the way, you do not have to buy a machine outright, there are very attractive lease buy deals through leasing companies.

Our policy is to do what we are good at: getting high quality coffee to you at a reasonable price. What about machine servicing, barista training etc which suppliers sometimes offer? We can put you in touch with freelancers to train your staff, but if you are serious about selling coffees you should have at least one full time staff member who can perform a basic machine service and make a good latte.

You can arrange to visit our shop in Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London W11 for a chat, to try some blends and see our own machine in action. The best way to get quality is not to buy a well known brand - you're the one who's paying for their marketing budget! It is best to get better beans, roasted recently.

We are best suited to establishments and small chains turning over 5 to 50 kg per week who value our close attention to quality, roasting consistency and freshness. We can discuss your requirements and assess samples of the coffee you currently use. We would then offer you one or two samples to fit your requirements.

How many times have your customers asked if they can buy your coffee to take home and make themselves? Many of our catering customers also sell our valve packs as an easy profitable add-on. We have no minimum order for any one line, so you don't need to gamble on buying loads.

Is decaf a problem for you? We have excellent organic Fairtrade decaf in 250g valve packs (to keep it fresh), ground for professional espresso for £2-50 per pack.

Opening a shop? We can give general advice. We are a small business with our own coffee shop too.

Tea, teabags, cocoa powder and sugar for caterers.We offer delicious, very competitive organic Breakfast Blend teabags, perfect for regular tea made in large or individual teapots. We have specialist teashops on our customer list who use infusers or teapots to make our loose teas, or teapots for our herbal and regular teabags. (However none of our teabags are tagged). You can make delicious hot chocolate using our organic cocoa powder and making up a chocolate sauce each day. This is much better than using "drinking chocolate" powder which is mostly sugar and cheap skim milk powder. You can offer the customer a chocolatey hot chocolate without drowning it in extra sugar.

Organic Fairtrade coffee, the implications for you

We are one of the very few UK suppliers with a good range of freshly roasted organic Fairtrade coffees. By using dual certified coffee you can appeal to two highly motivated interest groups who will seek you out. This means that paradoxically you may not want to make dual certification your main selling point - these customers will notice anyway. By emphasising the superb smooth rich flavour you will appeal to everyone else too. Many of our customers have no interest in either organic or Fairtrade, they just prefer our coffee.

You do not need to make organic or Fairtrade your main selling point, those who are interested will notice anyway.
Many caterers pay more for coffee that is inferior to ours and is neither organic or Fairtrade. There is always a cheaper supplier but beware of coffee that is either inferior or unstable. This means that although it makes a reasonable cup under perfect conditions, it quickly becomes bitter if the machines are slightly off setting or your barista is having an off day. Even if you pay more for our coffee you will will recoup your money and more from extra sales as customers seek you out and do valuable word of mouth publicity for you.

Some details... Certified organic means that we are audited annually by the Soil Asociation and display their logo. Fairtrade means we are audited by the Fairtrade Foundation and carry the Fairtrade logo on our coffee. As a caterer you can advertise that your coffee is organic so long as you display a pack for the public to see, because the pack shows the organic certification details. Similarly, as a retailer selling loose beans without your own organic certificate, you can advertise they are organic so long as you serve out of the original pack. You may want to seek advice before using the organic or Fairtrade symbols on your own advertising material, copyright is owned by the respective organisations and they can be very fussy about it.

Prices for 250g retail valve packs

Our artisan style simply labelled 250g coffee valve packs

Prices for loose coffee beans in 1kg bags for caterers or retailers

The Small Print
Minimum order £100 ... Carriage £7 plus VAT, carriage free over £140 ... Grinding charge 40p per kg ... Grinding charge for powder ("Turkish") 80p per kg.
Special roasts. We can roast any green beans we have in stock to your specification, prices are as indicated above but you must take the whole batch, the minimum is normally around 12kg.
These prices are for prompt payment: either by credit/debit card or promptly remitted cheque or bacs payment ... We regret that we can only offer credit to customers who regularly take larger volumes.

Tea, cooking chocolate, cocoa powder, raw sugar (most lines organic)

These products are packed with our label. For the full range see the retail price lists for tea and confectionery. We suggest an RRP 10-20% over our retail list, which is geared to our outlet in the competitive Portobello Road market in London.

Delivery.

We deliver within five working days of order, subject to carrier. Currently our carrier is DPD, which enables online tracking. Please provide an address where there is always someone to accept deliveries in office hours. Managers: we strongly advise you to maintain a "secret stash" of coffee to avoid panic deliveries which can be difficult or even impossible