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Olam has been in Japan since 2011, supplying and serving what is now the fourth-largest coffee market in the world. We also import cocoa, nuts, spices and sesame.
The coffee business continues to grow thanks to our level of service and local support to customers, including complete Vendor Managed Inventory solutions. We supply green coffee, specialty coffees and soluble coffee products to industrial suppliers, as well as supplying small roasters and local operations.
Our broader business development in the market has included the 2016 announcement of a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation - the MC Agri Alliance - to import and distribute a broader range of food products in Japan.
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Meet the Team
Since we established operations in Japan in 2011, we have focused on meeting Japan’s increasing demand for quality coffee.
Satoru Kakutani
Vice President and Country Manager, Japan
News, Views and Insights
4th Feb, 2021
Global Coffee Platform recognises two tiers of Olam’s AtSource programme as sustainability schemes
London
In a move by the Global Coffee Platform (GCP) to advance transparency and sustainability in the coffee value chain, two tiers of Olam International’s sustainability insights platform AtSource – AtSource Entry Verified1 and AtSource Plus - have been added as new sustainable sourcing schemes to the GCP Reporting on Sustainable Coffee Purchases programme2.
Launched in April 2018, AtSource provides Olam customers with a verified social and environmental footprint for their product supply chains, calculated from farm-level data, which then informs continuous improvement programmes.
Responding to the recognition, Juan Antonio Rivas, Senior Vice-President & Global Head, Sustainability & Business Development at Olam Coffee, part of Olam Food Ingredients, said:
“We are very pleased that two tiers of our AtSource programme have been assessed as being “equivalent” to the Baseline Coffee Code. This, in addition to other benchmarking studies that have been concluded in the rec
21st Aug, 2020
Olam Coffee partners with customers to support vulnerable farmers through COVID-19
In May, Olam Coffee launched a COVID-19 Global Intervention Plan to strengthen its ongoing relief efforts for the world’s worst-affected coffee farming communities.
Securing skilled labour, earning a living and affording usual food and new hygiene supplies are the main challenges being faced by coffee farmers as a result of lockdowns and movement restrictions. All of which are compounding the pre-existing vulnerability of coffee farmers to low prices and climate shocks.
Donations from customers and partners, together with Olam’s contributions, have reached US$449,670 to date, funding food and hygiene packages for over 20,000 coffee households across 12 countries, where farmers are navigating the complexities of harvesting during a pandemic.
Vivek Verma, Managing Director and CEO, Olam Coffee, said,
“We are extremely grateful for the generous support from our customers, namely Lavazza, Nespresso, Caffé Borbone, JM Smuckers, Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee, Strauss, Melitta a
15th Mar, 2021
Fighting COVID-19 fake news in Nigeria
Whoever and wherever you are, it’s unlikely you were expecting 2020 unfold as it did. But imagine for a moment that you’re a Nigerian smallholder. Your living conditions are basic. Your home has no electricity, you get water from the river and the nearest hospital is several hours drive away. One minute you’re thinking about seeds, fertiliser, whether you’ll break even this season. The next, you’re staring down the barrel of a global pandemic. For cocoa farmers in Africa’s most populous nation, reactions to the crisis veer from shock to complete disbelief.
When COVID-19 hit, many public health experts feared the worst for sub-Saharan Africa. Certainly implementing testing and control measures across Nigeria’s vast 36 states posed a tall order. Last April the New York Times, drawing on International Rescue Committee and other data, estimated Nigeria had a total of 169 ventilatorsi (used to help seriously ill patients breathe). That’s one per 1.27 million people. Compare that to on
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