Café Iguaçu

About Café Iguaçu

On June 22, 1967, in Cornélio Procópio, Paraná, Café Iguaçu was founded by coffee growers from this region, led by the Miyamoto, Höffig, and Ferreira de Castro families. In 1972, Marubeni Corporation, a trading company based in Japan, began participating in the company, which helped consolidate Café Iguaçu's position in the international market. By 1977, Café Iguaçu was among Brazil's top 100 exporters, accounting for 12.2% of total soluble coffee exports. In 2002, Café Iguaçu made its first industrial investment abroad through its London-based subsidiary Panfoods Co. Ltd., building a coffee roasting and soluble coffee packaging unit in Romania, Panfoods Romania SRL, where it markets its product under the brand “AMIGO”, becoming a leader in that market. On September 15, 2010, the second freeze-drying tunnel was inaugurated at the factory in Cornélio Procópio, PR, enabling an increase in the production capacity of freeze-dried soluble coffee. Today, Café Iguaçu is among the top three coffee exporting companies in Brazil, and is the second-largest in Brazil in the soluble coffee segment.