How Kalve Coffee is brewing for the Baltics

Fresh from raising €1.16m ($1.2m) in its IPO, Latvia’s Kalve Coffee has big ambitions to raise the profile of ethical and sustainable specialty coffee across the Baltics

Interior of Kalve Coffee Roaster’s Espresso Room Nr.3 in Riga, Latvia | Photo credit: Kalve Coffee

Fresh from raising €1.16m ($1.2m) in its IPO, Latvia’s Kalve Coffee has big ambitions to raise the profile of ethical and sustainable specialty coffee across the Baltics. Michael Lyons speaks to co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Raimonds Selga about building a business centred on transparency and ethics, becoming Latvia’s first B Corp and why honesty is always the best policy

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