Chimoto Coffee

Chimoto Coffee (株式会社チモトコーヒー) is a Japanese coffee company founded in February 1927 by Kohei Shibahara, who started Chimoto Shoten in Yotsuya, Tokyo and began coffee wholesaling. The company describes itself as a long-established coffee specialist that has pursued good coffee since its 1927 founding, traveling to farms worldwide to select quality beans and applying its own roasting technology. Its head office is in Ota-ku, Tokyo, and it operates a factory in Numazu, Shizuoka, where it performs integrated production from roasting to grinding and packaging under HACCP-based hygiene management. Its business is the manufacture and sale of regular coffee, and it has opened an online shop ahead of its 100th anniversary.

Chimoto Coffee traces its origin to founder Kohei Shibahara, who ran a Japanese grocery store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, encountered roasting at a local coffee shop, brought coffee culture back to Japan, and began roasting coffee in Yotsuya, Tokyo. In February 1927 he established Chimoto Shoten in Yotsuya, Tokyo, and started coffee wholesaling. In April 1969 the organization was reorganized from a limited partnership (gōshi kaisha) into a stock company (kabushiki kaisha) with capital of 9 million yen, becoming Chimoto Coffee Co., Ltd. In October 1972 a central factory was built in Matsumoto, Mishima, Shizuoka, equipped with the latest roaster from German maker Gothot. In June 1985 the central factory was relocated to Numazu, Shizuoka, completing a new computer-controlled factory. In November 1987 a Nagoya branch moved into a new building in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya. In December 2000 the central factory obtained ISO9002 certification; in April 2001 it obtained certification as a manufacturer of processed organic agricultural products (coffee); in December 2001 it obtained ISO9001:2000 certification; and in February 2009 it obtained Good Inside certification. The company states it has pursued 'delicious coffee' since its 1927 founding and opened an online shop ahead of its 100th anniversary.

Long-established coffee specialist pursuing 'delicious coffee' since 1927, with in-house roasting technology and integrated quality control.

• Regular coffee

• Specialty bottled liquid coffee

• Cafe au lait base

• Drip bag coffee

• Coffee gift sets

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