The Customer
Redemption Roasters needed a specialist supply chain partner to support the storage of its growing coffee business, providing the care, traceability and expertise required to protect the quality of its speciality coffee.
Founded in 2016 by university friends Ted and Max, Redemption Roasters is a speciality coffee business with a difference.
The company was established with a clear social purpose: to reduce reoffending by providing prisoners and prison leavers with the skills, training and employment opportunities they need to build a future after release.
Working in partnership with the prison service, Redemption Roasters established its first roastery inside HMYOI Aylesbury, providing participants with practical coffee and hospitality skills. This was followed by the launch of its first dedicated barista academy at HMP Springhill in 2018 and a new roastery at HMP The Mount in 2020.
Today, Redemption Roasters operates from its new roastery in Wembley, its first facility outside a prison setting. Alongside its growing network of London coffee shops, the business supplies customers through wholesale and subscription channels.
As the business continues to grow, having the right supply chain infrastructure in place is essential to supporting its operations and creating further opportunities for training, employment and social impact.
The Opportunity
With its coffee business continuing to expand, Redemption Roasters needed a reliable storage partner with specialist knowledge of the coffee sector.
The quality and value of speciality coffee can be affected by its storage environment, making appropriate warehousing, careful handling and effective stock management essential.
Redemption needed a partner that could provide a secure storage environment while maintaining visibility and traceability across its stock, helping to ensure its coffee remained in the best possible condition throughout its time in storage.
Our Solution
Commodity Centre has over 14 years' experience handling and storing speciality coffee and understands the specific requirements of the sector.
We provide Redemption Roasters with specialist coffee storage, supported by purpose-built warehouses designed to help minimise temperature fluctuations. Our teams are trained to understand the value and quality requirements of speciality coffee and handle every bag with the care it deserves.
Advanced IT and warehouse management systems provide full traceability across the supply chain, allowing every bag to be tracked from arrival at our warehouse through to its storage and eventual dispatch.
We also continuously monitor the quality of coffee while it is in our care, helping to ensure it leaves our warehouse in the same condition in which it arrived.
By providing a dependable storage solution and specialist supply chain support, Commodity Centre is helping Redemption Roasters manage its growing operation and keep its coffee moving efficiently through the supply chain.
Results
- Specialist storage designed for the requirements of speciality coffee
- Warehouses designed to minimise temperature fluctuations
- Tracked and traceable stock throughout the storage process
- Specialist handling by a team experienced in the coffee sector
- Ongoing quality monitoring while coffee is in storage
- Flexible supply chain support to help accommodate future growth
Impact
Redemption Roasters demonstrates how a successful speciality coffee business can combine commercial growth with meaningful social impact.
Commodity Centre is proud to support that growth by providing the specialist storage and supply chain expertise needed to protect the quality of its coffee and keep its operation moving efficiently.
With over 14 years' experience in speciality coffee, we understand the importance of providing the right storage environment, careful handling and complete stock visibility.
We look forward to continuing to support Redemption Roasters as it grows its business, creates new employment opportunities and expands its social impact.
