2011 Harvest reports are in and it is clear, there will be considerably less Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee available in 2012.  Perhaps as much as a 20 to 30 percent reduction over last year.

Simple Industries Inc. will continue to fill orders as we will always have a stable supply of only the highest quality Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee, but upward price pressures may force us to increase pricing next year.

Director General of the CIB, Christopher Gentles, told the Financial Gleaner that 80 per cent of the projected exportable coffee has already been sold for the 2010-11 crop, and there are orders within the system for at least another 12 per cent of the coffee inventory.

"Therefore, the pace of sale is significantly better than last year, and may be due to some of the marketing efforts that have taken place," he said.

"So the significant portion of the 2010-11 crop has already been committed. This means that the portion of unsold inventory is less, and this will give coffee dealers a greater confidence and ability to pay a better price."

Gentles states that the industry will be having a significantly smaller crop this year.

"We suspect that the JBM crop may be 20 to 30 per cent lower than the crop for the last year, and the high mountain crop will be significantly contracted as well."

source Jamaica Gleaner

What does this mean for the Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee lover? We will be faced with higher bean costs which will likely result in a higher retail price for our exquisite Ridgelyne brand 100% certified genuine Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee. 

We can guarantee our current pricing until January 15, 2012 and may have to increase pricing beyond that date.  If you are a regular purchaser of our fine coffee buy now and take advantage of our Customer Rewards programme.

We thank our customers for a successful 2011 and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Simple Industries Inc. 

David, Marlene and staff