Over the past year, we’ve made many improvements across our website, our communications, and our roastery. We’ve developed our production processes and quality control, and throughout the year we’ve also invested in several new machines to improve and speed up production. On top of that, at the end of last year we upgraded to a new 25 kg Probat roaster. We hope these developments have been reflected in the taste of your cup as well.
It’s been an amazing year — full of growth, new coffees, big and small achievements, trade fairs, and competition wins. We dove into the statistics and found all kinds of interesting data that might interest you too.
Below is GLC’s “true financial statement” for 2025. At the end of the blog, we’ll also share some thoughts about the year ahead.
Our 2025 in numbers
In green coffee, this equals more than 19,000 kilos of coffee. From this amount of roasted coffee, an estimated 2.35 million cups of coffee have been brewed.
Over the past year, we purchased a total of 46 different coffees. These coffees came from 11 different countries of origin: Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Peru, and Rwanda.
Of the 46 green coffees purchased during the year, the largest share came from Colombia, with no fewer than 14 different coffees. Next was Rwanda with 8 coffees, followed by Ethiopia in third place.
Woop! We reached the top of the podium in three competitions:
Kahveista Parhain: Best Dark Roast – Shyira Honey, Rwanda
Kahveista Parhain: Best Light Roast – Danche Washed, Ethiopia
Roastery of the Year: Helsinki Coffee Festival 2025 – 1st place
In addition, we placed well in several other coffee competitions, even if we didn’t quite take home the win.
It’s no surprise that the award-winning coffees are also among the top sellers in our online store.
About 16% of our orders are ground, while roughly 84% are sold as whole beans. Deliveries have been shipped to 22 countries, with the most orders going to Germany, the USA, and Sweden after Finland.
A few more fun facts
- Roastery team size: 4 + 1 = 5
- Number of cuppings per year: approx. 110 → number of coffees tasted: at least a billion
- Busiest roasting week of the year: In August, we roasted 53 batches, totaling 1,060 kilos of roasted coffee. That week, the roaster was running hot for about 13.5 hours in total.
- Origin trips to coffee farms: 4 trips
- Coffee trade fairs attended: 3
