Coastal Commodities, LLC, brand.
Inexperienced espresso buying and selling firm Volcafe USA has rebranded as Coastal Commodities. The New Jersey-based firm stated the change higher displays its impartial possession and operations.
In an announcement shared with Each day Espresso Information, the corporate stated the change displays the top of a long-running association with the Volcafe group, not a change in management or day-to-day operations.
Initially based in 1990 as Madison Espresso Firm, the buying and selling firm entered a long-term industrial association with Volcafe in 2000 and adopted the Volcafe USA identify.
“The latest change displays the conclusion of that long-standing association,” Coastal Commodities Associate, President and Head of Buying and selling Jonathan DeMuria advised DCN. “Importantly, this transformation doesn’t influence possession, management, financing, workers, buyer relationships or day-to-day operations. The identical workforce continues to function the enterprise, and present industrial relationships stay intact.”
Coastal Commodities, certainly one of North America’s largest inexperienced espresso merchants by quantity, stays co-owned by Jonathan DeMuria, CEO John DeMuria and CFO John Lorenz.
Jonathan DeMuria stated the corporate and its associates at the moment commerce roughly 275 million to 280 million kilos of espresso yearly by way of “a variety of business constructions.”
“The enterprise has grown considerably over the previous decade and maintains a broad community of world proprietary provider and buyer relationships,” DeMuria stated.
The rebranding and structural transition come because the Volcafe group evolves in North America below new possession. The group, whose espresso actions date again to 1851 below the identify Volkart Brothers, was acquired by ED&F Man Commodities in 2004. In 2024, vitality and commodities buying and selling large Hartree introduced it was buying ED&F Man’s three commodities enterprise items, together with Volcafe.
In Could 2025, Volcafe named Jason Cortellini regional normal supervisor for North America, efficient June 3, signaling continued funding within the area.
In an announcement that acknowledged “years of partnership and collaboration” with Volcafe and ED&F Man, Coastal Commodities prompt the brand new company construction will enable it to be extra nimble in sure operations.
“Buying and selling companies carry out greatest and ship the best worth to prospects when the individuals making choices have actual pores and skin within the sport,” Jonathan DeMuria stated. “Coastal Commodities brings collectively the dimensions and capabilities of a serious international buying and selling home with the agility and accountability of an owner-operated agency.”
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Nick Brown
Nick Brown is the editor of Each day Espresso Information by Roast Journal.
