Current members are entitled to use our brand assets in their communications. We encourage you to promote your membership and highlight our research as something you helped achieve as a partner in our work.
Below you'll find a selection of logos, photo images, communication ideas, and key messaging points. If you have questions about how to use these assets, please get in touch.
WCR member companies in good standing are entitled and encouraged to promote their membership in WCR and highlight our research as something you helped achieve as a partner in our work. Members not in good standing are not permitted to use the WCR logo.
All uses of WCR’s name or logo should be emailed to Maeve Holler, maeve@worldcoffeeresearch.org, for final approval and record keeping.
The WCR logo and name are the sole and exclusive property of WCR. As such, WCR reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate or modify permission to display the logo, and may request that third parties modify or delete any use of the logo that, in WCR’s sole judgment, does not comply with these guidelines or might otherwise impair WCR’s rights in the logo. WCR further reserves the right to object to unfair uses or misuses of its trademarks or other violations of applicable law.
For further guidelines regarding acceptable language for member companies, unacceptable language, and legal compliance, please see the full document "Logo Usage Guidelines and Claims Restrictions" below.
For further guidelines regarding colors, fonts, restrictions, and examples of both proper use and misuse of the WCR logo, please refer to our brand guide below.
Logos
We have a variety of logos available to members in PNG, JPG, and EPS formats. Below, you can download our primary logo in four color schemes—full color, all black, all white, and color with white text—and our 2023 Proud Member logo in PNG format.
Other logos and formats other than PNG are available upon request.
Members are entitled to use images from the WCR photo kit for blog posts, social media posts, and other media concerning our work.
All approved photos can be found here, along with information describing the context of each image, including where and when it was taken.
When using approved photos, members must properly credit the images to WCR. For any further inquiries regarding how to provide proper credit for the authorship of these photos, please contact us.
We encourage you to be creative when promoting your membership. There are many ways you can integrate our brand into your own. For example, members can include WCR branding when designing the following materials and content:
The possible uses of our brand assets are not limited to those listed above. Below, you will find a guide with various examples of how members have used our brand assets in their own marketing materials. We hope you'll be able to use this as a source of inspiration as you design your own communications.
Please note that all uses of our brand assets must comply with the logo and brand guidelines outlined above. All uses of WCR’s name or logo should be emailed to Maeve Holler, maeve@worldcoffeeresearch.org, for final approval and record keeping. Do not hesitate to also reach out to ask any questions you might have, reach out for feedback, or run content by us for review.
When promoting your WCR membership and using our assets, please refer to the frequently asked questions (FAQs) and key messaging points below to ensure your communications align with ours in accurately describing our mission and work.
Grow, protect and enhance supplies of quality coffee while improving the livelihoods of the families who produce it.
Forging the future of coffee.
WCR is an industry-driven agricultural research organization focused on unlocking the promise of improved coffee varieties.
Research is an essential basis for improving the ‘goodness’ of coffee: how good it tastes, how good it is for the planet, and how good it is for people who grow it. The coffee we drink today is the result of research conducted in the past. The coffee we drink tomorrow will be the result of research conducted today.
For all other general questions about our work, please refer to the one-page guide below or contact us.
There are many ways to stay connected and receive regular updates on our work that you can feed into your own marketing materials and communications, including following us on social media social media and subscribing to our newsletters.
We post updates almost daily on Instagram, X/Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We also share videos periodically on our Youtube channel. Follow us on your channel of choice to learn more about our work!
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We offer marketing and communications professionals at our member companies investing above the Cherry level the choice to sign up for our shareable updates newsletter. This newsletter includes bite-sized, pre-packaged updates for you to drop into your own channels. If you would like to receive these updates, please email Sr. Corporate Membership Manager Alexa Heinicke at alexa@worldcoffeeresearch.org.
World Coffee Research uses QuestionPro and its mobile app with offline capability as its survey tool of choice for collecting data, input, and feedback from the organization's member community.
