Contact Person: Amos Kasigi, Managing Director. Mob: +256 753 185 555, +256 708 153 244.

Established: 2007.

Profile Video: https://youtu.be/YgsqWUx58Hg.

Partners: Rootcapital, Operation Wealth Creation, USAID, Uganda Quality Coffee Traders’ & Processors’ Association, OikoCredit, aBi Development Ltd and UCDA e.t.c.

Description: The company processes and exports sundried and washed arabica from Bugisu and robusta from central, western and eastern region. It has an annual capacity of 12,000Metric Tonnes of coffee. Its coffee buyers are both local and international companies that exports ready and graded coffees such as Olam, UGACOF, TOUTON, Kyagalanyi Coffee, TRC Specialty Commodities, ENGELHART (ECTP) among others. It also deals in cocoa production for exporting in the European markets.

Description: Coffee processors, roasters and exporters.

Contact Person: Doreen Rweihangwe, President. Email: doreen.rweihangwe@ugandacoffee.co.ug

Contact Person: Rebecca Kisolo, Vice President. Email: rebeccakisolo@gmail.com.

Description: empowers women to participate in the coffee production chain so as to increase their household incomes and improve their livelihoods

Contact Person: Cynthia, Operations Manager. Mob: +256 778 060 424, +256 709 729 818.

Contact Person: Joshua, Managing Partner. Mob: +256 701 236 138.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/red2roast

Description: coffee processor and exporter

Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA) Ltd is an umbrella organization for all cooperatives in Uganda established in 1961. It serves as the voice of the cooperative movement at both national and international level with a mandate to recommend to government on matters of policy relating to cooperatives arbitration (settlement of disputes) advocate.

Contact Person: Teddy Namaganda, AG. Executive Director and PA to Group CEO. Mob: +256 788 720 417. Email: tnamaganda@africacoffeeacademy.com.

Contact Person: Hellen Mirembe, Chief Operations Officer. Mob: +256 702 817 060. Email: hmirembe@africacoffeeacademy.com.

Facebook page: AfricaCoffeeACA.

Twitter handle: @AfricaCoffeeACA.

YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UcWLF3I-c

Members to: Uganda Coffee Federation (UCF), Africa Fine Coffees Association (AFCA), Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED)

Networking Event: AFCA Conferences.

Partners with: Great Lakes Coffee- Uganda, CBI- Netherlands, aBi Trust, Solidaridad, USAID, Hivos

Target market: Regional and International Coffee Value Chain Actors.

Interest: To widen ACA’s networks and increase its visibility to the entire coffee value chain actors to provide them with support for a Total Coffee Experience from the Garden up to the Cup through educating, training, and other high-value professional services.

Description: Africa Coffee Academy (ISO 9001; 2008) is an independent source of coffee knowledge consultancy, training, and direct services. At Africa Coffee Academy [ACA] Coffee is our business. ACA is a private sector-led initiative that aims at providing professional, business, and technical support to the coffee value chain to ensure compliance to ensure resilience and profitable coffee enterprises through organized training, research, coaching and mentoring, advisory and technical services in the entire value chain. ACA offers the following courses: Coffee Agronomy; Barista Course; Coffee Trading and Entrepreneurship; Coffee Sustainability; Coffee Quality Management; Training of trainers; Coffee Price Risk Management; SPS Management and Selling Skills Course.

ACA also provides private contract third party quality assurance services to coffee exporters and farmer associations that include Savannah Commodities Ltd, Kampala Domestic Stores Ltd, Star Cafe, Kyagalanyi Coffee and NUCAFE and international buyers including; TATA Coffee of India, CTCS (UK), Africa Tea & Coffee of Mombasa Kenya, Altimo and Supremo both of Belgium.

The Academy has built strategic linkages with the key players in the coffee value chain. ACA has also provided worked with smallholder producers from; the National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE), African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA); Ankole Coffee Producers Cooperative Union, Tororo based One Café, Budadiri Arabica Coffee Factory Ltd. (BACFL).

Description: research development organization within agricultural sector including coffee.

Description: Coffee and cocoa processors and exporters.

Contact Person: Jeffrey Steinberg. Email: info@latitudetrade.co.

Established: 2016.

Certification: Certified B Corporation, Organic Certification (US NOP and EU).

Description: Latitude is a social enterprise in Uganda producing and exporting specialty cocoa, bean to bar chocolate and cocoa derivatives. The company works with over 5000 certified organic cocoa farmers in Uganda to provide training and a stable market for wet cacao purchased directly from registered farmers at rural village collection points. Latitude operates central fermentation and drying facilities for the production of fully traceable specialty cocoa from several regions of Uganda, supplying chocolate companies in the US, EU and Asia markets. Latitude also produces its own bean to bar chocolate brand (Latitude Craft Chocolate), cocoa powder and cocoa butter at its factories in Kampala for sale in East Africa, US, EU and Japan markets.

Literature on how to grow cocoa in Uganda (Webpage: https://naads.or.ug/crop/seeds/cocoa/).

Contact Person: Samuel N. Kamau, Executive Director.

Contact Person: Kenneth M. Barigye, Uganda Chapter Chair.

Contact Person: Rose Kato Nakayenga.

Founded: 1984.

Description: coffee processor and exporter.

Contact Person: Gerald Katabazi, CEO & Founder. Email: gkatabazi@gmail.com.

Description: Coffee processor, exporter and deals in handcrafted roasted beans, green bean sourcing and barista training in East Africa.

Contact: East & Central Africa office, Kenya.