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The Netherlands, November 23, 2021. Juan Valdez announces its entry into the Netherlands, as a result of the joint work with the Colombian Embassy in Amsterdam and the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation.
The Colombian brand will be present in one of the main supermarket chains in this territory. This new opportunity on the European continent strengthens its presence at an international level and projects the company as a reference of premium coffee in the market of this country.
The European coffee market has grown steadily in recent years, by about 17% and accounting for 26% of consumption of this beverage in the world. Moreover, during 2020 the per capita consumption of coffee in the Netherlands reached 8.3 kilograms.
All of the above represented a unique opportunity for the company, which seeks to enter into this new market and offer the experience and variety of Colombian coffees.
According to Sebastián Mejía, International Vice-President of Procafecol S.A., “capitalizing on opportunities for the expansion of our premium 100% Colombian coffee has been a priority for us as a company. Strengthening our presence at an international level and managing to enter the Dutch market hand in hand with important allies, such as ProColombia, the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, the Colombian Embassy in Amsterdam and the distributor, allows us to take the best of our country to conquer new palates. Likewise, Holland joins our presence in European markets such as Poland, Spain, Russia and Romania”.
Flavia Santoro, president of ProColombia, stated that “Juan Valdez is one of the most recognized Colombian brands worldwide and its arrival in the Netherlands, one of the main buyers of Colombian agri-food products, will help to continue positioning Colombia as the main world producer of mild and specialty coffees, which stand out for their origin and premium quality”.
Consumers will be able to find a Juan Valdez portfolio, focused on ground coffee and coffee beans, that will be available in more than 400 sales spots of the Jumbo supermarket chain, one of the most important organizations in the retail sector in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.
This expansion reaffirms the company’s commitment to more than 540,000 coffee growing families, by taking and making known the quality of its 100% premium Colombian coffee to different parts of the world.
 
About Juan Valdez
The Juan Valdez brand is the only coffee brand internationally recognized that belongs to coffee growers. In 2002, the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, a nonprofit organization that represents 540,000 coffee growing families, tasked the Juan Valdez® brand with the mission of opening different businesses around the world to generate value for Colombia’s coffee growers. Ever since, every shop has been named after the icon that has represented Colombian coffee in the world for more than 50 years.
The Juan Valdez® Café brand represents the quality, values and traditions of Colombian coffee. Every cup sold helps support Colombian coffee growers and their families.

 

Harm Jansen, General Manager of Kinti BV; Fernando Grillo, Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Carolina Castañeda, Director for Europe of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia BV; and Javier Pinzón, Representative of ProColombia in the Netherlands.