It was not by way of contingent occurrence that Tata Coffee produces some of the finest coffee. Working with nature's choicest gifts in the form of rich soils, luxuriant tropical shade cover, abundant rainfall and sunshine combined with good cultivation, processing and handling expertise, all together synergise to create quality coffee (Arabicas and Robustas). This makes for an irresistible cup which discerning consumers around the world savour and kick-start their day - with a hot cuppa of Tata Coffee.

Tata Coffee is involved in the whole spectrum of coffee making process. A constant quest for quality starts right from growing and curing coffee and tea to manufacturing and marketing value added coffee and tea products. Coffee beans are hand picked at just the right stage from home-grown estates, cured at their own facilities and are exported or retailed under their own brands in the domestic market.

Monsoon Malabar, Mysore Nugget Extra Bold and Robusta Kappi Royale are three prominent specialty Indian coffees grown and processed apart from some estate specific coffee beans. International Tata Café, Mysore Gold and Malabar are the popular instant coffee brands that are exported.

Apart from growing coffee and tea, inter-crops like Pepper and Cardamom are also grown on the estates. Tata coffee produces about 1000 mt of Pepper accounting for 1.5 per cent of India's total Pepper production, making the company the single largest producer of pepper in the country. Tata is the leading exporter of White Pepper while a sizeable quantity of Black Pepper also reaches the export markets.

Tata Coffee has total dedication and commitment to conserving and preserving the delicate ecology and bio diversity. Towards this, it is one of the few plantation companies in the world who grow trees to replace the ones that have been felled for timber, in a perpetually sustainable cycle. Trees grown as shade for coffee saplings are cut only when other trees are ready to take its place. The company takes special care to see that every tree felled is replaced through replanting. Tata Coffee's timber resources on the estate include Rosewood, Silver Oak and other softwood trees. As a part of its plan to optimise the utilisation of these resources, Tata has entered into the Timber Value-Addition industry by converting Silver Oak trees into plywood of different types under the brand name 'Conswood'.

Tata coffee also deals in plantation requirements such as fertilisers and chemicals, estate implements, tires and tubes through the estate supply division, thus dealing with the entire range of coffee making process.

The numerous awards won by Tata Coffee at various quality competitions stand testimony to the company's commitment to quality. In 2004 Kenneth Davids, coffee taster based in Berkeley, California created a portfolio of India's ten best coffees. Of the ten coffees, six coffees belong to Tata estates. To be more specific, four of five Arabica estates were from Tata estates and two of five Robusta estates were Tata estates.

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