Kaminto

More About Kaminto

Kaminto is a Dutch company offering coffee, tea, and related items online. Publicly listed company details mention Kaminto Holding, with KvK number 80523595 and establishment number 000046873805. The address is listed as Keukenhoflaan 76, 2548 PB Den Haag. Available information primarily points to a webshop and corporate delivery. No publicly documented store, coffee bar, or tasting room was found.

History and Company Profile

Public information regarding the founding of Kaminto is limited. A founding year, the names of the founders, owners, or a head roaster are not publicly documented. The earliest dated official content found during research consists of two brewing tips from May 12, 2020. On its own pages, the company positions itself within the context of fair trade and more direct sourcing.

Official company information is geared toward consumers and business clients. Kaminto mentions applications for companies, institutions, and the hospitality sector. Additionally, public business profiles indicate that its activities fall under specialized retail and wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa, and spices. External points of sale, cafés serving Kaminto, or supermarket listings are not publicly documented.

Branding, freshness, and grind options

On its official pages, Kaminto states that coffee beans are roasted daily. It is also mentioned that delivered coffee beans are no more than three days old. Such claims provide insight into how the company describes its production and delivery. At the same time, public information regarding the roasting machines used, capacity, roasting software, or technical profiles is unavailable.

Available product information mentions various delivery forms. Coffee can be ordered as whole bean, French press grind, espresso grind, moka pot grind, or auto-filter grind. For espressos, the category page shows intensity filters of 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, and 5/5. Terms such as light, medium, or dark roast profiles are not publicly documented.

Coffee assortment and countries of origin

The official navigation divides the coffee offering into coffee beans, decaf coffee, espresso coffee, filter coffee, and tasting packs. Within the espresso category, ten products are listed: Cardona, Cerro Chirripó, Classico, Gunung Kerinci, Intenso, Kahawa Mbinga, Montanhas De Prazer, Monteverde, Rusatira, and Tikusi. This indicates an offering that encompasses multiple origins and blends.

The Classico product page describes Classico as an espresso blend with coffee from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia, and Kenya. For region, plantation, altitude, processing, and variety, the page lists “Various”. Additionally, the espresso category shows origin filters for Sumatra or Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, Rwanda, and Tanzania.

In addition to coffee, the official site lists product groups such as tea, slow coffee, barista tools, CoffeeVac & TightVac, cleaning brushes, and maintenance products. As such, Kaminto is positioned not only as a coffee provider but also as a seller of brewing and maintenance equipment. The available information does not provide external brand names for all product groups.

Sourcing, direct trade, and transparency

Kaminto states that it aims to use Direct Trade “as much as possible”. The site indicates that not every coffee bean can yet be sourced this way. According to its own explanation, direct sourcing is intended to avoid intermediary organizations and pay farmers better. On various official sections, two figures are mentioned: 30 to 50 percent more and up to 70 percent more.

These figures are included as company claims. Public data regarding individual producers, contracts, or payments are not documented. Furthermore, no mentioned farms, cooperatives, importers, or transparency reports were found. Consequently, the traceability per coffee remains limited to the countries of origin and product information listed on the official pages.

Sustainability and Certification

The official site uses terms such as “Fairtrade Specialty Roast”, “Fairtrade”, “sustainable”, “fair”, and “responsible”. In the examined public pages, no public certification number or certifier was found. Nor are there any documented external sustainability audits or published transparency reports. For business customers, Kaminto does refer to Bradley’s organic Fairtrade tea.

Little public information is available regarding other sustainability aspects. No documented data were found concerning packaging policy, CO₂ reporting, waste policy, recycling, energy consumption, or emission reduction. Therefore, based on the available material, no broader assessment can be made regarding the environmental practices behind the webshop.

Sales Channels and Corporate Clients

Kaminto sells through their official webshop, kaminto.nl. The checkout page lists payment methods such as PayPal, iDEAL, Apple Pay, Klarna, and Bancontact. Their business page targets workplaces, institutions, and the hospitality sector, though it doesn’t mention specific clients or partners. No documented opening hours, menu, cupping schedule, or brew-bar service were found.

Public Visibility

No publicly documented prices, competition results, or shortlist mentions were found for Kaminto. Similarly, consulted industry publications yielded no Kaminto-specific features or awards. However, there are public mentions in business and trust profiles. Telefoonboek.nl describes Kaminto Holding as a webshop specializing in coffee beans and related accessories.

Additionally, the official site provides brewing tips and coffee recipes. The brewing tips cover French press and filter coffee, both dated May 12, 2020. The recipe section includes Cà phê trứng, Cold Brew, Espresso Martini (or EsMa), and Pumpkin Spice Latte. No publicly documented workshops, pop-ups, cuppings, market appearances, or industry-wide collaborations were found.

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