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COOXUPÉ (Cooperativa Regional de Cafeicultores em Guaxupé)
COOXUPÉ — Cooperativa Regional de Cafeicultores em Guaxupé (Guaxupé, Sul de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil; ~11,000 member farmers; founded 1932) is the world's largest single coffee cooperative by volume, handling approximately 5-6 million 60-kg bags of green Arabica annually — representing ~3-4% of global coffee production from a single cooperative. COOXUPÉ's members farm in the Sul de Minas (South Minas Gerais) region, which produces softer Arabica coffees at 800-1,400m elevation. COOXUPÉ operates its own dry mills, quality labs, and export operations directly through Santos port. The cooperative's scale gives member farmers direct access to international roaster buyers (Nestlé, JDE Peet's, Starbucks) and futures market hedging — circumventing the green coffee trader intermediary layer. COOXUPÉ also operates a fertilizer purchasing division, fuel distribution, and agricultural inputs co-op — functioning as an agricultural financial institution for Sul de Minas farmers.
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COOXUPÉ Dry Mill Complex (Guaxupé, Minas Gerais) →
BRMinas Gerais · processing
COOXUPÉ's primary dry mill and export preparation facility in Guaxupé, Sul de Minas, Minas Gerais — the largest cooperative coffee processing complex in the world. Processes 5-6 million 60-kg bags of green Arabica per year for ~11,000 member farmers in the Sul de Minas growing zone. Operations include: mechanical drying (via raised drying beds and mechanical dryers), hulling (removes parchment layer from dry-process coffees), size and density sorting (electronic color-sorters remove defects), and bagging in standard 60-kg jute or GrainPro bags. COOXUPÉ's scale allows investment in electronic optical sorters and quality infrastructure unavailable to individual farms. COOXUPÉ exports directly to major international roasters including Nestlé, JDE Peet's, and German/Japanese specialty roasters. Source: COOXUPÉ Annual Report 2023.
Cerrado Mineiro Growing Region (Minas Gerais, Brazil) →
BRMinas Gerais · growing_region
Cerrado Mineiro (Minas Gerais state; Patrocínio, Araxá, Patos de Minas, Unaí; elevation 850-1,100m; ~200,000 ha under coffee) is one of Brazil's premier Arabica growing regions and the first Brazilian coffee region to receive a Geographic Indication (GI) designation (2005). Cerrado produces dense, full-bodied Arabica beans with chocolate and caramel notes due to well-defined dry and rainy seasons (unlike Atlantic Forest regions). Major mechanized farming operations using laser-leveled topography and strip-picking machinery. The Cerrado suffered major climate events in July 2021 — unexpected frosts combined with severe drought destroyed an estimated 10-30% of the 2022/23 crop, contributing to the KC futures spike above $2.60/lb. Source: USDA FAS; ICO Coffee Report 2023.
Cooxupé Guaxupé Processing & Export Hub →
BRMinas Gerais, Brazil · green-coffee-processing
World's largest coffee cooperative headquarters. Operates dry mills, quality lab, and export logistics for ~18,000 member farmers. Certifications: Rainforest Alliance, UTZ, Fair Trade, ISO 9001.
Port of Santos — Coffee Export Terminal (São Paulo, Brazil) →
BRSão Paulo · port
Port of Santos (Baixada Santista, São Paulo state; Brazil's largest port by cargo volume; ~130M tonnes cargo/year) handles the majority of Brazilian green coffee exports — approximately 80% of all Brazilian coffee leaves through Santos. Santos has dedicated coffee warehousing infrastructure including climate-controlled warehouses certified for green bean storage. Brazilian coffee exports: ~36 million 60-kg bags/year (FY2023 record); Santos terminal capacity allows export of ~80,000-100,000 tonnes/month of green coffee. Santos is also a major soybean, corn, sugar, and orange juice export hub — green coffee competes for Santos cargo capacity with other Brazilian agricultural commodities. Major trading firms (ECOM, Olam, LDC) maintain or charter warehouse facilities in the Santos vicinity. Source: USDA FAS Brazil Coffee Annual 2024.
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Origin2023
COOXUPE was founded in 1932 in Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil — at a time when Brazil's coffee industry was transitioning away from the large colonial fazenda (plantation) model that had dominated since the 1700s. Post-abolition (slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888), coffee production was shifting to small and medium family-operated farms in Minas Gerais. The cooperative model allowed these farms — each too small to export directly — to pool their coffee, share dry-milling infrastructure, and access international buyers. COOXUPE's founding in 1932 predates the establishment of the Brazilian Coffee Council by 20 years and represents the grassroots farmer organizational infrastructure that enabled Sul de Minas to become one of the world's premium arabica regions. Today COOXUPE's 11,000+ farmer-members produce 3-4% of global arabica by volume — more than the entire national production of most coffee-producing countries — from a single cooperative in southern Minas Gerais. The cooperative also operates as a full-service agricultural bank (credit, inputs, futures hedging) for its members, functioning as the primary financial institution for Sul de Minas coffee farmers.
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