Who is COTA?
We are two coffee lovers who want to find a way to finance our plane tickets between ThAiland and COlombia. Right now it's not working too well we are just loosing money because sourcing done well is much more expensive than expected!
When our products are established enough we're sure people will enjoy it and the whole adventure will make sense. And worse case scenario we tasted amazing coffees, met even better people and developed rare skills.
Our pricing is FAIR and sourcing TRANSPARENT. We will share the contact of all our farmers will all of you, if you want to source directly from them that will make us happy. We only share our purchase price if the produce is OK with it. And we make on average 15.2% markup on all our coffees. We want to be a legal company this means we pay customs tax of 90% in Thailand included in this markup and the shipping costs from farm to Thailand. We do not include in this figure: local distribution cost, admin, design costs, stock management, our time and sourcing costs.
Also if we can organize order directly in Colombia (FOB) we will drop down that percentage much lower.