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. Atlas Coffee Importers
  6. Bäckerei Happ GmbH & Co.
  7. Bagavathi Organogenic Molecular Mineralised Coffee
  8. Barrie House Coffee
  9. Bell Lane Coffee
  10. Black Oak Coffee Roasters
  11. Black Subtle Notes Coffee
  12. Blossom Coffee Roasters
  13. Bodum Roasting
  14. Bontain Coffee Co.
  15. Boomtown Coffee
  16. BUNA
  17. Cafcom Trading
  18. Cafe Imports Fulfilment
  19. Cafe Virtuoso
  20. CafeTracker
  21. Calendar Coffee
  22. Camber Coffee
  23. Caravan Coffee
  24. Caravela Coffee USA
  25. Coffee Bros.
  26. Coffee Libre
  27. Coffee Nexus
  28. Coffee Unified
  29. Coffeebar
  30. Craft House Coffee
  31. Crankhouse Coffee
  32. Cumpa
  33. CUPRIMA
  34. Curve Coffee Roasters
  35. Dark Woods Coffee
  36. Dear Green Coffee Roasters
  37. Demus S.p.A.
  38. Descamex
  39. Driftaway Coffee
  40. DRWakefield
  41. ECRE
  42. Equator Coffees
  43. Espanola Coffee Roasters
  44. Excelco Trading
  45. Exhale Coffee
  46. Fadie Sasaguri Roastery Corporation
  47. Falcon Coffees Peru
  48. FiXX Coffee
  49. Forecast Coffee Company
  50. Friday Coffee Roasters
  51. Fuglen Coffee Roasters Oslo
  52. Fulcrum Coffee
  53. Horiguchi Coffee Research Institute
  54. Hormozi Coffee
  55. Huckleberry Roasters
  56. I & M Smith
  57. Imbibe Coffee Roasters
  58. InterAmerican Coffee/Neumann Gruppe USA
  59. Intercontinental Coffee Trading
  60. iO Coffee
  61. Irving Farm New York
  62. Izaki Coffee Co.
  63. Java City
  64. Jones Coffee Roasters
  65. Kaldi Coffee Farm Online Store
  66. Kaldi's Coffee
  67. Kelachandra Coffee
  68. Kerchanshe Trading PLC
  69. Kiss the Hippo Coffee
  70. Klatch Coffee
  71. Kua Coffee
  72. La Baia Coffee Supply
  73. Limini Coffee
  74. List + Beisler
  75. Little Waves Coffee Roasters
  76. Madcap Coffee Company
  77. Market Lane Coffee
  78. Marubeni Foods-Specialty
  79. Melbourne Coffee Merchants
  80. Metric Coffee
  81. Moon Roast
  82. Moplaco Trading PLC
  83. Mr. Espresso
  84. Murnauer Kaffeerösterei
  85. Nylon Coffee
  86. One Village Coffee
  87. Origin Coffee Roasters
  88. Ozo Coffee Roasters
  89. Pacific Espresso
  90. Passenger Coffee & Tea
  91. Philippine Coffee and Barista Insitute
  92. Polyplants
  93. Prometheus Coffee Roasters
  94. Rave Coffee
  95. Raw Bean Limited
  96. RGC Coffee
  97. Rimini Coffee
  98. Ringtons Ltd.
  99. Roast House Coffee
  100. Rumble Coffee Roasters
  101. S. Ishimitsu & Co.
  102. Sarutahiko Coffee, Inc.
  103. SC Foods, Co. Ltd
  104. SCS Global Services
  105. Single O
  106. Solberg & Hansen
  107. South India Coffee Company
  108. South Texas Coffee Initiative
  109. Specialty Grade Coffee
  110. Stitch Coffee
  111. Supremo Coffee
  112. Sustainable Harvest
  113. Sweet Maria's Coffee Inc.
  114. Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company
  115. Taf Coffee
  116. Temecula Coffee Roasters
  117. Temple Coffee Roasters
  118. TERAROSA (Haksan Co.Ltd)
  119. This Side Up Coffee
  120. Toa Coffee Co. Ltd.
  121. Tony's Coffee
  122. Trabocca
  123. True Stone Coffee Roasters
  124. Vides58Coffees
  125. Walker Coffee Trading
  126. Whittard of Chelsea
  127. Wonderstate Coffee

Checkoff Program Participants

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