Record Sales at Salvadoran Coffee Auction

The specialty coffee auction netted $718.838, the highest of any of the nine countries where the Excellence Cup is held.

Friday, June 18, 2010

An average coffee quintal was sold for $723, surpassing the previous record of $536.27, which dates back to 2008.

“La Suiza” plantation got the highest score at the Excellence Cup. A U.S. coffee buyer called “Coffee Bean International” paid $28 per pound - $2,800 per quintal -, 18 times more than the current price in the international market.

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El Salvador: $1,920 per Quintal in Coffee Auction

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The highest price achieved at auction was by coffee from the farm 'La Roxanita'.

Sales of the 42 lots auctioned totaled $830,245. The rest of the lots reached prices between $400 and $1,500.

"This value is seven times the price paid today in the international coffe market, including delivery, in July ($ 260.25). However, it failed to beat the record of $2,800, paid last year for a grain from “La Swiza” farm in Santa Ana

Costa Rica: $2,000 per quintal in Coffee Auction

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The highest price achieved at auction was for the Coffee Finca La Estrella, from Santa Maria de Dota.

In the final stage of the Cup of Excellence competition, the electronic auction, the second best price for coffee went to the Don Leoncio farm, in Manuel Antonio Barranes, at $1,200 per quintal.

$28 per Pound for Guatemalan Coffee

July 2010

This was the price achieved by coffee from the El Injerto plantation in the electronic auction held at the Cup of Excellence event.

In second place was Rosma plantation, which got $22.10 per pound. Las Macadamias came third.

“According to the Guatemalan National Coffee Association (Anacafé), the average price paid was $8.92 with a total 34,980 kg sold equivalent to $712,234.

On-line Auction of Honduran Coffee

July 2010

The yellow-grain “Tatuai” brand was valued at $22.05 for every pound of export quality coffee.

Sponsored by the Honduran Coffee Institute (Ihcafe), the auction was held at the end of the seventh round of the Coffee Excellence Cup.

Ihcafe’s technical director, Mario Ordóñez, was reportedly pleased because the auction enabled a record price of $22.05 per pound to be obtained after being sent to 125 international purchasers, says Latribuna.hn.

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