Membership

Invest in the future of coffee.
We are 200+ companies in 29 countries coming together to create a more resilient and sustainable coffee industry.

Your Support

Why invest in the future of coffee?

The challenges facing coffee are bigger than any one company can solve alone. Through collective investment in agricultural R&D, World Coffee Research creates new varieties that address multiple business and sustainability risks to ensure a vibrant coffee sector. Every coffee business—large and small alike—is called to do their part and invest in creating the future of our industry.

Address the climate crisis and improve farmer livelihoods.

Variety development is one of the most powerful tools we have to help farmers adapt to climate change and reduce carbon emissions from coffee farming.

Mitigate business and sustainability risks.

Variety development is an auditor-approved CRSD/ESG strategy to assure supply and business continuity and sustain origin diversity, quality, and market differentiation.

Ensure the future of high-quality coffee.

Through research, we can create more resilient plants and ensure a future where naturally grown coffee is not only available and accessible but meets roasters' needs for quality.

HEAR FROM OUR MEMBERS

Creating the future of coffee

Learn why companies large and small from 29 countries have come together to invest in agricultural innovation for the coffee sector.

Become a Member

Two ways to join.

Membership is open to any company whose business depends on or involves coffee and whose membership is consistent with WCR’s mission. Membership fees support all of WCR’s vital research activities.

Checkoff Program


Contribution tied to coffee purchasing volumes.


For companies that purchase or trade coffee and want their WCR contribution built into the cost of coffee.


Annual Contribution


A fixed contribution amount each year.


Works for any kind of company (roasters, retailers, allied, etc.) funding across departments (R&D, marketing, sustainability).


Support Calculator

Not sure which membership is right for your business? Use our support calculator to best determine your investment level. New members can start at a lower amount and gradually step up over a three-year period to reach the target fee indicated here. Please contact us to discuss in more detail, and ways we can help build internal stakeholder support.

Checkoff Program

Annual Contribution

Fixed Value

Helpful Documents

Learn more about membership.

FAQ

Common Questions

World Coffee Research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come.

The primary return on investment for member companies is the mitigation of key business and sustainability risks. Our collective investment model provides multiple advantages, including:

Pooling resources to accomplish variety development at a scale that would be prohibitive for most individual companies to invest in alone;

Delivering an industry-driven, product-focused research agenda;

Joining forces with peers to unlock public investment aligned with industry priorities, and

Ensuring benefit to farmers, producing countries, and coffee companies.

Member benefits are the ways in which World Coffee Research engages companies in its research so that members can steward investment in alignment with their specific interests, including members-only education and connection opportunities, communications support, content packages, participation in cupping new varieties and advocacy, in addition to recognition. For example, our new member portal provides a fantastic, centralized repository of resources that anyone working for a member company is eligible to access. Please see our member benefits document above and contact us for more information.

World Coffee Research is a 501(c)(5) nonprofit agricultural organization. As such, WCR is exempt from U.S. federal income tax. In the U.S., contributions to WCR may be tax-deductible as trade or business expenses. WCR is not a 501c3, therefore contributions are not tax deductible for individuals. Please consult your tax advisor to determine whether and to the extent to which your donation may be deductible.

We offer a simple membership fee structure with four (4) primary categories for industry stakeholders to partner with us: brand roasters/manufacturers/retailers, business-to-business roasters/manufacturers, green coffee suppliers/traders/decaffeinators, and allied companies in the coffee value chain (including equipment, flavoring, food, producers, and consulting). If you don’t see that your business fits into these categories but are interested in becoming a member, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss options with you.

Placement in volume/revenue bands is made using current-year figures, to determine membership rate for the following year. WCR membership will be on a calendar year basis. If a member company’s green coffee volume or volume-equivalent increases such that the company would move into a higher membership band, the member will have two years to reach the new target level. At the time of annual renewal, members can also change between the Fixed Rate annual contributions and Checkoff options.

Companies are encouraged to become members of WCR at their appropriate level, and new membership provides for a three-year period of increasing investment to meet this target. Making a financial contribution to WCR at a lower amount is possible, but does not come with member benefits. Please contact us to discuss further.

Our Members

Industry-driven, collaborative, and global.

Our members—companies large and small—come together to collectively invest in coffee research and create new varieties that establish a critical foundation for a vibrant and sustainable coffee sector in diverse coffee origins. Join us!

Members

Thank you to all the companies who generously support our work and make it possible.

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  1. Ally Coffee
  2. AREA 51 Coffee Roasters
  3. Asahi Quality & Innovations
  4. Atkinsons Coffee Roasters
  5. Bäckerei Happ GmbH & Co.
  6. Bell Lane Coffee
  7. Bettr Coffee
  8. Black Oak Coffee Roasters
  9. Blossom Coffee Roasters
  10. Bodum
  11. Bontain Coffee Co.
  12. Boomtown Coffee
  13. BUNA
  14. Cafcom Trading
  15. Cafe Imports
  16. CafeTracker
  17. Calendar Coffee
  18. Camber Coffee
  19. Caravan Coffee
  20. Caravela Coffee USA
  21. Ceremony Coffee Roasters
  22. Coffee Bros.
  23. Coffee Libre
  24. Coffee Nexus
  25. Coffee Unified
  26. Coffeebar
  27. Covoya Ltd.
  28. Craft House Coffee
  29. Crankhouse Coffee
  30. Cumpa
  31. CUPRIMA
  32. Curve Coffee Roasters
  33. Dark Woods Coffee
  34. Dear Green Coffee Roasters
  35. Demus S.p.A.
  36. Descamex
  37. DRWakefield
  38. ECRE
  39. Equator Coffees
  40. Fadie Sasaguri Roastery Corporation
  41. FiXX Coffee
  42. Flores Island Coffee
  43. Forecast Coffee Company
  44. Fuglen Coffee Roasters Oslo
  45. Fulcrum Coffee
  46. Hormozi Coffee
  47. Huckleberry Roasters
  48. I & M Smith
  49. Imbibe Coffee Roasters
  50. Intercontinental Coffee Trading
  51. iO Coffee
  52. Irving Farm New York
  53. Izaki Coffee Co.
  54. Java City
  55. Kaldi Coffee Farm Online Store
  56. Kelachandra Coffee
  57. Kerchanshe Trading PLC
  58. KIM House Roaster
  59. Klatch Coffee
  60. Kua Coffee
  61. Kurasu LLC
  62. Limini Coffee
  63. List + Beisler
  64. Little Waves Coffee Roasters
  65. Madcap Coffee Company
  66. Market Lane Coffee
  67. Marubeni Foods
  68. Melbourne Coffee Merchants
  69. Metric Coffee
  70. Moon Roast
  71. Moplaco Trading PLC
  72. Mr. Espresso
  73. Murnauer Kaffeerösterei
  74. Nylon Coffee
  75. Ome by Spacebar Coffee
  76. One Village Coffee
  77. Origin Coffee Roasters
  78. OutIn
  79. Passenger Coffee & Tea
  80. Philippine Coffee and Barista Insitute
  81. Polyplants
  82. Prometheus Coffee Roasters
  83. Rave Coffee
  84. Raw Bean Limited
  85. Rimini Coffee
  86. Ringtons Ltd.
  87. River Coffee Roasters
  88. Roast House Coffee
  89. Rumble Coffee Roasters
  90. S. Ishimitsu & Co.
  91. Sarutahiko Coffee, Inc.
  92. SC Foods, Co. Ltd
  93. SCS Global Services
  94. Solberg & Hansen
  95. Steim
  96. Stitch Coffee
  97. StoneX Specialty Coffee
  98. Sweet Maria's Coffee Inc.
  99. Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company
  100. Taf Coffee
  101. Temecula Coffee Roasters
  102. Temple Coffee Roasters
  103. Toa Coffee Co. Ltd.
  104. Tony's Coffee
  105. Trabocca
  106. Vides58Coffees
  107. Whittard of Chelsea
  108. Wonderstate Coffee

Checkoff Program Participants

Thank you to all the roasters, retailers and suppliers that make this program possible