Fairtrade Worldwide and India’s Black Baza Espresso Co. are the winners of the Specialty Espresso Affiliation‘s (SCA) 2025 Sustainability Awards.

The US- and Europe-based SCA introduced the winners forward of its flagship U.S. occasion, the Specialty Espresso Expo, happening April 25-27 in Houston.

Discover DCN’s full 2025 SCA Expo protection right here.

In an announcement of the 2025 awards, SCA Sustainability Director Andrés Montenegro praised each organizations for his or her means to “embrace change, navigate complexity, and generate scalable options.”

Fairtrade Worldwide, primarily based in Bonn, Germany, is the proprietor of the Fairtrade mark, which for greater than three many years has been an emblem for honest and equitable commerce of worldwide items resembling espresso. The group, which just lately named a brand new CEO, Lis Prassack, is the SCA Sustainability winner within the “nonprofit” class.

Black Baza, a Bangalore, India-based espresso roaster and self-described “activist firm” that invests deeply in espresso producers and biodiversity initiatives, is the winner within the “for revenue” class.

The SCA enlisted 12 outdoors specialists, plus two SCA employees, to assist decide the awards this 12 months. Extra info on each winners may be discovered right here.

The SCA Sustainability Awards date again to 2004 with the Specialty Espresso Affiliation of America, which merged with the Specialty Espresso Affiliation of Europe in 2017 to kind the SCA.

The awards classes and standards have modified quite a few occasions through the years. 2025 marks the second 12 months straight through which the winners had been recognized as organizations in “for revenue” and “nonprofit” classes. Previous to that, this system awarded a enterprise mannequin, a program and a person.

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