Tata Coffee is a subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages with Instant Coffee manufacturing facilities, R&D capability and plantation assets. The company's shares are listed on the National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, Bangalore Stock Exchange Ltd., Madras Stock Exchange and Hyderabad Stock Exchange.
Tata Coffee is possibly the largest integrated coffee plantation company in the world. Tata Coffee has a hand in every aspect of the coffee making process, with business activities ranging from growing and curing of coffee and tea to the manufacture and marketing of value-added coffee products. Tata Coffee grows coffee on its own estates, processes the beans, exports green coffee, manufactures and exports Instant Coffee and retails coffee with its own branding in the domestic market.
Tata Coffee is expanding its global footprint while insulating its exposure to global coffee price cycles. Today the company supplies to buyers in over 54 countries across the globe.
Currently Tata Coffee Vietnam Ltd has built the freeze-dried coffee plant with 8ha located in Binh Duong province will be a key production unit for our premier global customers with an additional emphasis on new product mixes. And this is the first investment for Tata Coffee beyond Indian shores as a manufacturer, and is a key step to becoming a global coffee major.
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Tata Coffee's operations span the entire value chain from growing the coffee on its own farms to processing them at its mill to supplying gourmet roasters.
Tata Coffee grows both, Arabica & Robusta and processes the coffee to produce Washed and Unwashed coffees. Each step of the chain is carefully managed to enhance the quality of the final product while protecting the environment. A dedicated R&D lab (the only one in the private sector) has developed SOP's for each step in the process chain
Tata Coffee's Instant Coffee Division is India's first export-oriented soluble coffee manufacturer. The company has three 100 per cent EOU (Export Oriented Units) Instant Coffee manufacturing units at two locations, Toopran near Hyderabad and at Theni near Madurai with an installed capacity of 8500 tons per annum, producing Spray dried and Agglomerated and Freeze Dried instant coffee.
Tata Coffee has various blends such as pure Robusta, pure Arabica and Robusta-Arabica mixes to offer. The company has also developed various coffee chicory mixes that afford an unbeatable price customers cross the world
International Tata Café, Mysore Gold and Malabar are the popular Instant Coffee brands that are exported
Tata Coffee owns 19 coffee estates located in ideal coffee growing highlands of Southern India, with fertile soils and invigorating climate. Spread over 8037 hectares in Coorg, Chickmaglur and Hassan districts of Karnataka and in Valparai district of Tamil Nadu, Tata Coffee produces 10,000 metric tonnes of natural shade grown Arabica and Robusta coffees, in both washed and unwashed forms. These estates are located at various altitudes, and the coffee produced possesses distinct cup characteristics.
Tata Coffee's uniqueness lies in its ability to produce large quantities of estate specific, strain specific, speciality and premium coffee, while maintaining a strict consistency in quality. Apart from coffee and tea, pepper and cardamom are also grown as inter crops on its estates. The basic thrust lies in the commercial market to deliver products with differentiated value. Monsoon Malabar, Mysore Nugget Extra Bold, and Robusta Kappi Royale are three of the prominent speciality grades of Indian coffee it grows and processes apart from estate specific coffees. Mr. Bean, a quality product made from the finest coffee beans at its plantation, was recently introduced.
The company has the largest curing facility in the country at Kushal nagar with an installed capacity of 10,000mt. The coffee is cured in the company's state-of-the-art curing facility at Kushalnagar in Kodagu district. It has been awarded the prestigious certificate of approval for quality ISO-9002 through certification by Bureau Veritas Quality International, Netherlands. This unit is the first curing industry in India to receive ISO-9002 certification.
The company also owns six tea estates which spans 4755 hectares in Coorg and Chickmagalur districts of Karnataka and Annamalais district of TN and produce 6.5 million kilograms of tea.
Estate Supplies
Tata Coffee also deals in plantation requirements such as fertilisers and chemicals, estate implements, and tyres and tubes through it's Estate Supplies Division.
Tata Coffee has abundant reserves of timber, which is grown for shade. The company's timber resources on its estates include Rosewood, Silver Oak, and other softwood trees. As part of its plans to optimise the utilisation of the company's captive timber resources, the company has entered into 'Timber Value-Addition' industry by getting its Silver Oak timber converted into plywood of different types and bearing the brand name 'Conswood'.
Tata Global Beverages – Overview
Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL), the holding company of TCL, unites the beverage interests of Tata Group under one umbrella. It signals the group’s global ambition, as well as marking the next logical step in its evolution from a history in plantations to becoming a marketing and brand focused organisation with a portfolio of engaging and exciting strong consumer brands.
TGBL is a US$ 1.3 bn conglomerate and the second largest tea company in the world. With significance presence over 70 countries, the company has subsidiaries in the UK, USA, India, Poland and others. TGB currently employs over 3,000 people around the world through partnerships, joint ventures and its supply chain operations, many thousands more contribute to the business. Tata Global Beverages until very recently was the Tata Tea Group, one of India’s largest tea growers and marketers, selling its tea as well as coffee in over 40 countries. On July 2, 2010 the Tata Tea Group was renamed Tata Global Beverages and following the operational integration of its five beverage businesses announced the same year.
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