Tata Coffee (TATACOFFEE) is a coffee producer and exporter. A subsidiary of Tata Tea, the company was incorporated on Nov. 19, 1943 and got its current name when the Tata group merged its coffee interests in 2000. The company offers specialty coffee and estate specific coffee; instant coffee; roasted and grounded coffee in blends like Peaberry, Plantation, Coorg Super strong House Blend, Robusta and Chicory; a 53% coffee and 43% chicory flagship brand Mr. Bean; and soluble coffee Jiffy vending machines. Besides coffee, the company offers the Conswood range of plywood and block boards, tea, pepper, cardamom, vanilla, and the Plantation Trails holiday homes in Coorg. Concentrated in the Coorg, Hassan and Chikmagalur districts of Karnataka and Anamalais in Tamilnadu, the company owns 18 coffee estates and 7 tea estates having an aggregate acreage of 31,613 acres.
It has a curing works facility in Kushal Nagar with an installed capacity of 10,000 MT. The two instant coffee manufacturing facilities in Toopran (Andhra Pradesh) and Theni (Tamil Nadu) have a combined installed capacity of 6,500 MT. The ISO 9001 certified company started structuring its retail and vending format Mr Bean Coffee Junction in 2007 with one outlet in Kochi. It is looking at opening five more such outlets in South India. The company acquired 51% equity stake in Alliance Coffee in July 2006 for marketing coffee products internationally. It has Consolidated Coffee Inc, Eight 0`Clock Coffee Company, USA and Eight O` Clock Holdings Inc, USA as subsidiaries. A domestic marketing setup has brands like Tata Caf? and Tata Kaapi for the retail market and freeze-dried coffee for institutional sale. The company caters to the export markets of Russia, Italy, France, Poland and several South East Asian countries. The registered office of the company is located at Pollibetta, Kodagu, Karnataka-571215.
