Tata Coffee plant in Madurai Theni talks with Starbucks for supply

Tata Coffee's Instant Coffee Division is India's first export-oriented soluble coffee manufacturer. The company has three 100 per cent export oriented (EOU) instant coffee manufacturing units with an installed capacity of 7600 mt per annum, producing spray dried, agglomerated and freeze dried instant coffee. One unit is located at Toopran in Hyderabad and the other two are at Theni, Madurai. The Toopran unit is an ISO- 9001: 2000 certified factory. This factory was initially set up with Brazilian technology to produce spray dried instant coffee. The aroma add-back system was introduced in 1997 and in 2001, the agglomerated plant was set up with technology from Denmark. The Theni units near Madurai in Tamil Nadu state is certified with ISO 2200-2005 meeting HACCP requirements. In its quest to be competitive in the area of soluble coffee, the company is in the process of setting up an instant coffee unit in Uganda as a part of its strategic initiative Factory addresses: Theni Tata Coffee Limited S F NO 906, Vaigai dam Periyakulam Road, Jayamangalam Village, Periyakulam (TQ) Theni – 625 603 Tel: (04546) 237476 Fax: (04546) 237096 Email id: icdtheni@tatacoffee.com Toopran Tata Coffee Limited Brahmanpally Village, Toopran Mandal, Medak (D) – 502 334 Tel: (08454) 235128 Fax: (08454) 236480 Email id: icdf@tatacoffee.com Tata Coffee is at an advanced stage of discussion with the Starbucks management to start manufacturing coffee for their retail sales. This basically means all coffee meant for retail sales by Starbucks will be produced and packaged by us. The official at Tata Coffee said - We are building capacity at the Madurai plant which will see capacity addition of 2,000 tonne very soon. The overall capex required for this will be to the tune of Rs50 crore.