Ethical Addictions Coffee Roasters

Ethical Addictions Coffee Roasters is based in Staverton, Gloucestershire, operating from Bamfurlong Industrial Park. The business was set up in 2006 with a model built around buying directly from farms and villages, rather than through intermediaries or certification bodies.

Their position on Fairtrade is explicit: they argue that direct buying can return a larger share of the price to producers, including smallholders too small to afford Fairtrade certification fees. Their sourcing relationships include Orera Village on Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, where they have been buying since 2010, alongside farms in Cameroon, Brazil and Colombia.

They publish the names of producers they work with and provide information on what farmers are paid, which is an approach not standard in the industry. The business is family-run and sells direct to consumers and wholesale.