We work hard to connect directly with farmers and their communities, and to build healthy relationships on common values and goals. Our commitment to farmers is built on a long-running foundation of shared values, shared goals and trust.
In practical terms, this means we commit to regularly buying their beans and to investing in their growth. They commit to meeting our standards of quality year after year. We give back to their communities by investing in education and mentorship programs, building new infrastructure, and creating work programs for local farmers. About Us Advertise E-newsletter. Home Business Owner of Community Coffee talks about history of company, sense of community.
Photo by Lexi Coon. Today, Community Coffee is sold in stores in 22 states. The company is opening a new manufacturing facility in Harahan and adding a training and innovation center to its south Baton Rouge offices. And of course it is available all over the world via the Internet and is especially popular with Louisiana natives looking for a taste of home.
Those longtime customers provide some of the best endorsements the Saurages could ever hope for, some of which have been shared on social media using the hashtag yearsreasons.
Tweet Share Pin It. Matt Saurage and his mother Donna are third- and fourth-generation owners of Community Coffee. Saurage bought a variety of freshly roasted beans from New Orleans, mixed them according to his own tastes, ground and packaged the coffee by hand, and delivered it to his local customers by horse-drawn wagon.
By , demand for the coffee was so great that Saurage could hardly fill all of his orders. He closed the grocery store and converted the barn in his own back yard into a coffee mill and packaging plant in order to devote himself to the coffee business full time. Saurage named his product "Community" in recognition of his devoted local customers. As the reputation of Community Coffee grew, Saurage began delivering his coffee to stores and restaurants. Cap Saurage was famously meticulous about the quality of his product, and his son, H.
Norman Saurage, Jr. In , shortly after assuming the helm of the company, H. By controlling this crucial phase of coffee production, he argued, the company would be able to guarantee an even greater level of quality and freshness. In , production expanded further when the family built its first modern coffee roasting and packaging plant in downtown Baton Rouge.
During these years, the company also began filling orders by mail upon request. In the s, Community began importing its own beans directly from Brazil.
At the time, this was highly unusual for a company of Community's size; most companies purchased their beans from brokers. The move was indicative of Community's dedication to maximizing quality control and further streamlining all phases of production.
In the early s, Community built a new and improved plant on the other side of the Mississippi River, in Port Allen. At the new location, Community could receive shipments of green coffee beans straight off the cargo ships that came into the port of Baton Rouge. Norman had grown up in the coffee business. During his teens, he had worked as a coffee urn repairman in the warehouse of the mail order department and also filled in as a salesman in the summer.
Norman spent much of his early career in the sales department, where he developed his knowledge of the industry as well as his coffee palate.
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