How A Rwandan Immigrant Started A Coffee Roasting Business

February 16th, 2019

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Mike Mwenedata

Founder, Rwanda Bean Coffee

$90K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Rwanda Bean Coffee

rwandabean.com

from South Portland, Maine, USA

started January 2014

$90,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Mike Mwenedata. I immigrated to America 6 years ago from Rwanda. I’m the co-founder of Rwanda Bean Coffee Company. We source single origin coffee from Rwanda and roast the beans to perfection here in South Portland, Maine

We package and distribute our coffee to our 3 local retail shops:

185 Cottage Road, South Portland
463 Stevens Avenue, Portland
345 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland

We also wholesale to local business customers in our area. We have grown from having 10 lbs of Rwandan Coffee to sample with local roasters to now owning our own coffee roaster and purchasing our first container of 40,000 lbs of green coffee beans.

By expanding to include our own retail locations we have been able to increase revenue from under $3000 per month to over $45k per month in less than 1 year.

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