COFFEE THAT GIVES BACK
Black Lion Organic Coffee is committed to giving back to the communities that provide the coffee we drink. For every bag of coffee, we sell. Black Lion Organic Coffee gives a percentage to support women in coffee through women’s cooperatives, capacity building, and empowering women in coffee to establish their businesses through microfinancing and women-only washing stations and cooperatives. You can learn more about what we are doing to impact women in coffee.
Women provide the bulk of low-paid labor in the coffee sector, yet men market the coffee, run the cooperatives, and control the majority of the profits. Women typically earn 38% less than men, do not have the same opportunities, and have limited access to resources.
Black Lion is a direct supplier of the world’s finest premium coffee, controlling production from the farm to cup, and giving back to the communities that supply our coffee.
1/1 Every cup of Black Lion Organic Coffee directly benefits women in coffee and the communities in which they live.
Black Lion supplied large companies, including Starbucks in the EU, with premium Ethiopian coffee beans.
1/2 In 2015, Black Lion opened in Ethiopia, in 2020 in the USA, and 2021 in the UAE.
Today, Black Lion continues to export Ethiopian premium coffee worldwide, owns coffee shops, and roasts coffee for consumers in the domestic Ethiopian and export markets. Of all the well-known coffee brands in Ethiopia, Black Lion has a reputation for the best-tasting and highest-quality coffee.
HISTORY
The birthplace of coffee is Ethiopia. Black Lion Organic Coffee began in 2012 in Norway. Back then, Black Lion Organic Coffee exported premium green coffee to the EU and roasted coffee in Norway. The Black Lion symbolizes Ethiopia and represents the strength and royalty of its historical kingdom. Additionally, the last black lions in the world exist in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. Black Lion Organic Coffee represents coffee from its origin and the heritage, strength, richness, and uniqueness of Ethiopia.
