Company overview
The company initiated in Costa Rica in the year of 1960, at that time known as “Industrias de Café La Montaña” with a production capacity of 120 kg per day in a handmade process.
Mayor clients at that time where: Mas x Menos, Automercado Los Yoses and some small clients form the centre of the capital, San Jose. Sales reached 500 kg approximately per week and coffee was packed in paper bags.
In 1974 the production and consumption had grown, and a new investment was made by buying a small roasting plant where the industrial process was started and the brand name “Montaña” was formally introduced, becoming the leader brand for Sierra Madre Compañía Tostadora de Café S.A. by the en of 1999.
Today the company is based in the province of Alajuela, and the roasting plant is surrounded by beautiful coffee plantations. Sierra Madre counts with an entire delivery fleet and the working force is highly qualified in all areas. The supply network reaches from the great metropolitan area (GAM) into the rural regions maintaining excellent coverage on the different distribution channels.
Café Montaña can be found as well in all the prestigious supermarket chains like:
- Mas x Menos
- Pali
- Hipermas
- Maximercado
- Megasuper
- Automercados
- Perimercados
- and other small independent retail stores like Centro de Bio Salud S.A.
Our constant growth in the local market comes mainly from the approach to the final consumer and the fulfilment of the highest quality standards set by our consumers.
In the manufacturing process of this noble product, only the best altitude coffees out of the best producing regions are used, obtaining from the roast of the beans an irresistible unmatched flavour and aroma. Our plant counts with the latest roasting technology and a continuous improvement philosophy, empowered by regular training of the personnel, quality programs (ISO 9000) and ecological programs (certified ecological flag) giving our esteemed customers another added value for our coffee. Our production capacity and the quality of our product have given us the opportunity to introduce our products in worldwide considered highly demanding and quality conscious consuming countries like USA, England and Canada.
Among our most important overseas clients for whom we have manufactured and developed private labels with our process are:
Land Rover Café, Central American Partners (certified ecological coffee) between others.
