Many retailers, online and brick and mortar knowingly or unwittingly market and sell coffee as Jamaica Blue Mountain® that simply is not.  If the retailer is not a licensee of the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica you likely are not getting the real thing.

Provenance

Coffee is grown all over Jamaica but only coffee grown in a precise geographic region, at specified altitudes using specified methods, monitored. taste tested, quality and safety inspected and approved by the Board as Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee can be sold as such.

As with any premium product counterfeit product is an ongoing problem and is being actively fought by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica and licensed importer/retailers like us.

Licensing

Simple Industries Inc. is a registered foreign importer and trademark licensee of the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica.  We are authorized by the Board to use the trademark "Jamaica Blue Mountain®", the registered trademark image top left, and to import and market Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee and will gladly provide copies of our licence and other documentation to assure our customers of the legitimacy and authenticity of our products.

The licensing of Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee requires that any entity selling it must be registered with the CIB in order to ensure the consumer of the product they are purchasing, even a local coffee shop.  Simple Industries is actively seeking discerning coffee shops, hotels, restaurants, bed and breakfasts and others interested in obtaining a sub licence that we can legally issue.

To view our license details please click here to see our listing at the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica.

Some warning signs that  you might not be buying authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee:

• Product is priced well below normal market price.
  
• Retailer does not provide licence details or provides only copies of packaging or packaging labels.
• Product is being described as a blend, Jamaican coffee, or Blue Mountain coffee.
• Product is contained in low quality packaging.
• Product is being sold as green beans.

If in doubt you should contact the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica through their website at www.ciboj.org  The Board will gladly respond to your query and inform you if you are buying Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee.