Honoring Every Human Connected to Our Coffee

For over 25 years, we’ve held an uncompromising commitment to quality: not only in our coffees, but in the way we treat the planet and the people who make what we do possible.

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Partnering With Producers

We’re dedicated to sourcing the world’s best coffees while challenging supply chain norms. We do this by honoring our Direct Trade relationships, paying quality premiums for our coffees, and creating multi-year commitments to our producers.

Celebrating Our People

As a people-first culture, we're committed to creating a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community for the humans of Stumptown by providing training, resources, healthcare, special-interest programs, and time for personal growth.

Sustaining Our Planet

We’re committed to sustainability in our cafes, breweries, and roasting facilities. We're actively working to reduce energy and water consumption, and have set a goal to have zero landfill-bound waste in our manufacturing operations by 2025.

We’re still bringing you the best coffee in the best way we know how, using Direct Trade sourcing to ensure the highest quality of life for coffee producers around the world. This includes supporting origin-led projects to create solutions to sustainability challenges in coffee-producing communities.

The humans of Stumptown continue to blow our minds with their talent, dynamism, and individualism. We continue to add greater incentives to our benefits package, we engage in community projects, and we continue to strive to create a warm, welcoming, and inclusive community for all.

We amped up our sustainability efforts in our cafes, breweries, and roasting and manufacturing facilities. And we’re rolling out plans to reduce energy consumption, water consumption, and landfill-bound waste across all our operations.

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Proud to be a B Corp

We've joined over 4,500 companies working to mindfully grow business with an emphasis on social and environmental accountability and transparency.

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Sustainability & Impact Through the Years

1999

STUMPTOWN OPENS ITS DOORS

Stumptown launches Holler Mountain, our signature organic coffee blend

2003

FIRST DIRECT TRADE RELATIONSHIP

First Direct trade sourcing relationship with the Aguirre Family's El Injerto farm in Huehuetenango, Guatemala

2010

PORTLAND ROASTERY BEGINS DONATING BURLAP BAGS

All burlap bags (used to transport coffee from origin to the roastery) are donated to the City of Portland Community Garden program where they are upcycled to 53 garden and hundreds of gardeners

2012

RTO INSTALLED AT STUMPTOWN'S ROASTERY

RTO (Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer) installed at Stumptown's roastery in Portland OR, recycling heat from the roasting process and reducing roasting emission to near zero

2017

FINCA CHURUPAMPA COMPOST PROJECT BEGINS

Stumptown provides seed funding for the first phase of a compost project for Finca Churupampa in Peru

2018

STUMPTOWN ACHIEVES B CORP CERTICIFACTION

2020

NEW YORK ROASTERY MOVES TO QUEENS

Stumptown's NYC roasting operations moves from four buildings in Red Hook, Brooklyn to one beautiful building in Queens, featuring a host of eco-friendly an efficiency features

2021

STUMPTOWN RELEASES ITS FIRST EVER SUSTAINABILITY & IMPACT REPORT

Stumptown recertifies as a B Corp (with a 9.7 point score improvement)

FAQ

What is Direct Trade?

Over 20 years ago, Stumptown helped coin the term Direct Trade to describe our way of sourcing the world’s best coffees and challenging supply chain norms.

And it has been our sourcing philosophy ever since. Instead of buying anonymous coffees from a trader, we know our producers; instead of paying prices linked to the commodity market, we pay premiums driven by quality; and instead of being opportunistic, we forge long-term partnerships with producers.

Over the years, the term Direct Trade has become widely used among buyers of specialty coffees, but it means different things to different people. As our business continues to grow and evolve, so will our Direct Trade model to continue our mission of making the most positive impact where we can.

What is organic coffee?

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "USDA certified organic foods are grown and processed according to federal guidelines addressing, among many factors, soil quality, animal raising practices, pest and weed control, and use of additives. Organic producers rely on natural substances and physical, mechanical, or biologically based farming methods to the fullest extent possible."

Coffees can only be designated organic if they've been produced and processed in a manner consistent with these guidelines.

Are all Stumptown coffees Certified Organic?

What is a B Corp?

Led by the nonprofit network B Lab, B Corp certification is a designation given to businesses that have passed a rigorous assessment and are deemed to be operating at the highest standards, socially and environmentally.

At Stumptown, the process of becoming certified paved the way for us to create systems for evaluating how we run our business. This includes the impacts on our people, the environment, the communities in which we operate, and the farms where we source coffees.

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