Coffee Exchange is a wholesale coffee supplier started in 2014 in Johannesburg by childhood friends Laurence Bekink and Scott Nightingale. Because they were both passionate coffee drinkers and searching for a life outside of the corporate world, they were drawn together in starting Coffee Exchange.

Also the guys originally intended to start a consulting business and because of this, they were regular “cofficers” moving around from coffee shop to coffee shop in search of the perfect brew. It was in this quest that they realised there was a lack of true artisanal coffee brands in the market and therefore decided to venture into the space themselves. Purchasing their roaster and moving into premises in Kyalami, the journey of Coffee Exchange had begun.

At Coffee Exchange you will find the approach to coffee is very much a manual, and traditional one which seeks to retain the personal touch in the day and age where technology has increasingly begun to displace the human element in coffee. At Coffee Exchange everything is done by sight, sound and eye. We have minimised allowing technology to dictate coffee making and use the methods that have been employed by roasters and baristas since the inception of the espresso machine in 1884 and the production of commercial coffee roasting equipment.