Roaster or coffee shop owner?
Find here specialty green coffee sourcing & equipment solutions.
Discover traceable, responsibly produced green coffees at co-built prices - crafted with pride and purpose - and explore over 50 brands of roasting and brewing equipment
WHAT BEING A BELCO CUSTOMER REALLY MEANS
Being a Belco customer isn’t just buying coffee and equipment. It’s stepping into a committed coffee ecosystem, connecting with a community of passionate professionals, and unlocking a complete range of services and expertise, all included in the price of your products.
Sourcing & Transparency
- Year‑round presence at origin through our subsidiaries and teams in Colombia, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya, including sourcers, agronomists, Q‑Graders, logisticians…
- 150 to 300 coffees available year‑round, from volume lots to microlots
- Tailor‑made sourcing, contracts, spot sales, Direct Trade, FOB
- Full traceability on every coffee
- Producer training through our coffee training farms at origin
- Complete transparency on purchase prices, available on your coffee sheets
- Real‑time price adjustments on belco.fr based on the euro/dollar rate and the Arabica coffee price
QUALITY FIRST
- End-to-end quality control with 3 labs at origin and a quality hub in France
- A global team of 10 calibrated Q‑Graders, connected through our app “Le Lab”
- A unique 8-step quality protocol: strict, fully digitised, designed to guarantee excellence
- Five analyses per sample (vs 3 on average in the market): Farm Sample + Offer Sample + Pre‑Shipment Sample + Arrival Sample + Control Stock
- 450+ cuppings per year, tasting around 3,600 coffees for our France team alone; plus 1,500 coffees per year analyzed by our Ethiopia team
- Independent second analysis for organic coffees
- Complete, 24/7 accessible quality sheets on belco.fr, providing full visibility on coffee quality for your roasting
Genuine Commercial Support
- Creation of your signature blends, tailor-made ranges, and merchandising solutions
- Advice to structure and grow your business plan
- Discuss agroforestry, decarbonization, market trends, and products anytime with your account manager
- Coffee and equipment after-sales support available 5 days a week
- Marketing tools accessible and customizable on each coffee sheet: QR codes for packaging, A4/A5 sheets, postcards, certifications…
- Access to exclusive community events all year round: Primeurs, Belco on Tour, Belco Open House, Ethiopian Day, Live Cuppings, Webinars, Conferences…
- 24/7 access to webinar replays, magazines, posters, and sales-support tools via your client account
TRANSITION & IMPACT
- A real, structured team of 8 people dedicated to transition and impact
- Choose your coffees based on their Impact Score© (December 2025), developed by our engineers and based on the key sustainability challenges of the coffee sector
- Measurement of our actions with concrete, verifiable, and tangible data
- Access to our committed brands: Fresh Coffee Clean Ocean©, Café de Forêt©, Soil of Excellence©, and Impact Score©
- Annual impact report available
- EUDR compliance support (EU law on imported deforestation)
SERVICES FOR YOU
- Analysis and advice on your roasting
- Independent quality analysis of your coffees if needed
- Access to e-learning courses for you or your team
- Masterclasses available throughout the year
- Quarterly sourcing webinars
- In-person training at the Belco Coffee School in Mérignac
- Tailor-made training delivered directly at your location
Discover FRESH COFFEE CLEAN OCEAN
The brand that guarantees you a 90% decarbonized sailing transport for your coffees.
Rising prices?
Your new communication tools
For several months now, coffee prices are skyrocketing. That’s why we’ve developed tools to help you communicate about specialty coffee — its added value, its production process, and more. A ready-to-use campaign you can implement in your own establishments or with your clients!
Discover FRESH COFFEE CLEAN OCEAN
The brand that guarantees you a 90% decarbonized sailing transport for your coffees.
Rising prices?
Your new communication tools
For several months now, coffee prices are skyrocketing. That’s why we’ve developed tools to help you communicate about specialty coffee — its added value, its production process, and more. A ready-to-use campaign you can implement in your own establishments or with your clients!
Together, we can build a more sustainable industry.
Your purchases can have an impact at origin, in the field, on producers, in our supply chain, around you, and on your customers. We can show you how.
A team
71 coffee and cacao enthusiasts based in Ethiopia, El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala, Germany and France, motivated to get our industries moving.
An energy
High-quality, sustainably-grown products linked to social and environmental projects supporting the industry’s transition.
A pact
Working together, to protect the environment, decarbonize the industry and promote price transparency.
Resources
Count on us: sourcing experts, buyers, agronomists, field engineers, quality controllers, logisticians, Q Graders, etc.
Great products, no compromise
Quality
Quality comes first, as it’s crucial to sustainability
Traceable
Clear, accessible data, every step of the way
Transparent
From the price paid to producers to the sustainability of their farming practices and impact
Income at origin
Direct purchase, at a fair price for producers
Sustainable
Commitment to the transition to a more resilient and respectful agriculture