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{{RfD|Going through the regular RfD process, and not QD. As a comparison look at [[:en:Tchibo]]. The company (EduScho) originally started selling coffee, before being bought. If the article can claim/show notability within the week, we can keep it.}}
'''Vournas Coffee Trading, LLC'''<ref name=Vournas Coffee Trading, LLC>{{cite web|title=Vournas Coffee Trading, LLC|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?privcapId=44492230|website=bloomberg.com|accessdate=2018-02-02}}</ref><ref name="Paige West">{{cite book|author=Paige West|title=From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ja8fl1dY1-kC&pg=PA5|year=2012|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-5150-1|pages=5–}}</ref>is a family owned specialty coffee importing company founded in 2002 by brothers Andrew Vournas<ref name=Andrew Vournas Executive Profile>{{cite web|title=LinkedIn Executive Profile|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-vournas|website=linkedin.com|accessdate=2018-02-02}}</ref>and Michael Vournas<ref name=Vournas Coffee Trading, Company Profile>{{cite web|title=Vournas Coffee Trading|url=https://www.vournascoffee.com/about-us/companyprofile/|website=vournascoffee.com|accessdate=2018-02-02}}</ref>. 

Vournas Coffee Trading specializes in sourcing green coffee<ref>
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. They sell to roasters and wholesalers across the United States and worldwide
. They are based in [[Westlake Village, California]]. Vournas Coffee Trading stores and ships coffee at warehouses in [[San Leandro, California]]; [[Carteret, New Jersey]]; and [[New Orleans, Louisiana]].

Vournas Coffee Trading offerings include [[Fair Trade coffee]], [[Organic coffee]], [[Single-origin coffee|single estate]] and conventional coffees.

==Advocacy==
Other than helping farmers and coffee farms, Vournas Coffee has also been supporting health programs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, among others.<ref>
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==Partnerships==
* Vournas Coffee partnered with Kaapi Royal Coffee in September 1, 2011 to import coffees from India.<ref name=Kaapi Royal Coffee>{{cite magazine |date=09-01-2011 |title=Vournas Coffee partners with Kaapi Royale |magazine=Tea & Coffee Trade Journal|publisher=Tea & Coffee Trade Journal |accessdate=02-05-2018 }}</ref>
	
== References ==
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==External links==
* Vournas Coffee<ref name="Vournas Coffee Website">{{cite web|title=Vournas Coffee|url=https://www.vournascoffee.com/|accessdate=2018-02-05 }}</ref>