Help Wanted

Roast Master. Istanbul-based roaster of gourmet coffee is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced roast master to take over the reins for our retiring founder. We specialize in espresso, filter, flavored and Turkish coffee. An exciting offer is on the table and the chance to help our expanding company grow. Please e-mail kmaleki@hotmail.com.

Looking to Hire

Contract Roaster Wanted. We are looking for a relationship with a roaster with larger capacity than our shop roaster to roast and ship for us. Please contact us via e-mail or via the Roaster’s Guild forum (in the Member’s Forum “Looking for a contract roaster”) if you are interested. Thanks. Please send e-mail to:
coffee.roaster@yahoo.com.

Organizations

Cup For Education is a non-profit organization designed to help poor rural coffee communities of Central and Latin America build schools within their communities and assist in providing them with teachers and the basic tools needed to educate the future generations of coffee farmers. Cup for Education sponsors a teacher for the Solidarity School in the community of Los Alpes in Jinotega, Nicaragua. Entering its second year, Karen Gordon, president and founder of CFE, says, “We are pleased to have raised enough funds to enable us to sponsor the teacher again for the school. The additional teacher allows this community to send children to school to further their education by another grade level.” For more information, go to www.cupforeducation.org or call 800.458.2233.

Consulting/Education

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Services Available

Contract Coffee Roaster Available. Are you struggling to keep up with the demands of your growing retail or wholesale coffee business? Would you like to sell coffee under your brand name, but don’t want to get into roasting? Let us help you. We owffer contract roasting services for anything from roasting and shipping in bulk, to drop shipping retail orders to your online customers. No project too small. E-mail us at roaster247@yahoo.com for information.