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SCAJ2026
Discover Ethiopian Excellence at SCAJ 2026! Ardent Coffee Export is excited to connect with coffee professionals, roasters, and partners at SCAJ 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. Discover the distinctive flavors, exceptional quality, and rich origins of Ethiopian specialty coffee. Let’s share our passion for coffee, explore new opportunities, and build lasting partnerships. 📍 Tokyo, Japan We look forward to meeting you! Ardent Coffee Export — From Ethiopia to the World.
Ashenafi Argaw
4 days ago1 min read


Ethiopia’s 2026/27 Coffee Harvest Begins at Ardent Coffee Export
The 2026/27 coffee harvest has begun! At Ardent Coffee Export, our washing stations are fully ready to receive fresh cherries and begin processing the new crop. African drying beds are ready across all our sites. A new season of exceptional Ethiopian specialty coffee is underway. From the harvest to the world.
Ashenafi Argaw
Oct 51 min read


ARDENT PINNACLE™ 2026
Limited Ethiopian Specialty Coffee for Meaningful Impact ARDENT PINNACLE™ 2026 is our carefully selected collection of exceptional Ethiopian coffees—distinctive lots chosen for their clarity, sweetness, complexity, and unique character. This year’s collection features five remarkable coffees from Sidama and Yirgacheffe: Sidama Bombe — Anaerobic G1 — an explosive fruit bomb with tropical fruit and ripe berry character. Sidama Dembi — Natural G1 — sweet, expressive, and beautif
Ashenafi Argaw
Sep 181 min read


Ardent and Ashenafi Argaw
Before Ardent Coffee Export was officially established in 2017, it already existed in spirit, in vision, and in the heart of its founder, Ashenafi Argaw. Some companies begin with a business plan. Ardent began with a lifetime devoted to coffee. For Ashenafi, coffee has never been simply a profession. It has been the defining thread running through every chapter of his life. Growing up in Ethiopia’s coffee-producing communities, he experienced coffee as more than a crop—it rep
Ashenafi Argaw
Sep 182 min read


Ardent Introduces a New Quality System
Quality at Every Step. From Crop to Cup. At Ardent Coffee, quality is at the core of everything we do. We are pleased to announce the full implementation of our new Quality Control Protocol (QCP) and Ardent Quality System (AQS) across our operations. Our approach to quality begins long before the coffee reaches the final processing stage. From crop development and harvesting to processing, drying, storage, milling, sorting, cupping, and final export preparation, quality is ca
Ashenafi Argaw
Sep 181 min read


Ardent Completes New Coffee Processing Warehouse
Ardent Coffee Warehouse -- Better Quality. Stronger Traceability. Faster Service. Ardent Coffee is pleased to announce the completion of our new warehouse and coffee processing facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Located on a 10,000 m² compound, the facility represents an important milestone in our growing coffee operation and our commitment to serving customers around the world. The modern warehouse is equipped with advanced coffee processing machinery for cleaning, grading,
Ashenafi Argaw
Sep 181 min read


WE ARE HONORED!
Ashenafi Argaw, CEO of Ardent Coffee, meeting the President of Ethiopia during the reward ceremony. Ethiopian Coffee Day was well...
Ashenafi Argaw
Sep 24, 20221 min read
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Ardent Children Center [Update]
Children grow up in different situations. Some are blessed enough to have their parents in their life but some suffer with the loss of...
Ashenafi Argaw
Sep 10, 20222 min read


Ardent Coffee Farmers Day!
Ardent Coffee Export was in Bensa, Sidama Region, Ethiopia, to celebrate coffee farmers that worked with us in the 2021/22 crop season....
Ashenafi Argaw
Aug 22, 20222 min read


Future Leader
The quality of parenting children receive early in their childhood plays an impeccable role in influencing their developmental competence...
Ashenafi Argaw
Jul 6, 20212 min read


THE TRIP TO BENSA
Team Ardent went on an excursion 419.2 km away from Addis Ababa to the beautiful city of Bensa. The place is so majestic that we forgot...
Ashenafi Argaw
Jul 6, 20212 min read


Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve
Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve. Little is known about this coffee forest found in Sheka zone. It's recognized by UNESCO in 2012 as...
Ashenafi Argaw
Nov 1, 20171 min read


Mother coffee
Mother coffee, the oldest coffee tree in the world, located in the heart of the birthplace of coffee, Keffa Forest. #mothercoffee,...
Ashenafi Argaw
Nov 1, 20171 min read


unique biodiversity
Experiencing the unique biodiversity and highly protected agro-ecologies of Bebeka Coffee Estate and Crown Gesha Estate in Bench Maji....
Ashenafi Argaw
Nov 1, 20171 min read


Deep in Keffa Forest
Deep in Keffa Forest. It's full of completely wild coffee. The coffee trees are about 4 meters tall covered in wispy, green hair mosses,...
Ashenafi Argaw
Nov 1, 20171 min read


wildlife
Wild coffee traditionally grows in the understory of forest canopies in southwest and southeast part of Ethiopia. In these coffee...
Ashenafi Argaw
Nov 1, 20171 min read


14 days Wild Coffee Expedition in Ethiopia.
On 14 days Wild Coffee Expedition in Ethiopia. Wild coffee grows in the forests of Ethiopia as it has for thousand of years. It's...
Ashenafi Argaw
Nov 1, 20171 min read


Kata Muduga, Jimma
Going deep into coffee forest in Kata Muduga, Jimma, with my crew. It's a jungle full of coffee trees, with no roads. #Jimma,...
Ashenafi Argaw
Oct 26, 20171 min read


Sheka Wild Coffee Forest
Stunning Sheka wild coffee forest, fully covered with indigenous forest canopy shading coffee understory. I believe these century old...
Ashenafi Argaw
Oct 25, 20171 min read


Interviewing Abafixa
Interviewing Abafixa, the former board chairman of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, in his coffee farm in Jimma. Despite their...
Ashenafi Argaw
Oct 24, 20171 min read
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