North American organic coffee market reaches $1 billion in 2007

18th May 2008

The market for organic coffee in North America reached $1 billion (€643m) in 2007, according to figures released at an organic coffee tasting in New York in mid-May.

Daniele Giovannucci, who is compiling the North American Organic Coffee Industry Survey, said that 84m pounds of organic coffee had been imported into Canada and the US last year, a 29% increase on 2006. In the US, he estimated, this amount represents about 3% of total green coffee market.  

Giovannucci’s survey will be available from the Organic Trade Association, whose offshoot, the Organic Coffee Collaboration, mounted the tasting of organic coffees. The members of the Organic Coffee Collaboration include Dallis Coffee, Elan Organic Coffees, Equal Exchange, Fresh Harvest Products, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Co.