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UCC Ueshima Coffee (UCC) is engaged in processing, importing and selling coffee, black tea and cocoa. The company operates in Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, the US, Indonesia, Paraguay, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and South Korea.
UCC Ueshima Coffee (UCC) is engaged in processing, importing and selling coffee, black tea and cocoa. The company operates in Japan, Brazil, Jamaica, the US, Indonesia, Paraguay, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and South Korea.
The company conducts its operations in five distinct business segments: institutional sales business, household business, beverage systems sales, coffee estates business.
UCC's institutional sales business segment provides coffee to coffee shops, hotels, restaurants, and other food service businesses. It offers coffee under the names V-est, Granze, Kiwami Aji, Largo, Espresso, and Rainforest Alliance lines.
The company's household business segment involves the production of canned coffee and the vacuum packed regular coffee for improved shelf life. UCC sells these products through a variety of sales channels, at department stores, mass retailers, convenience stores and general stores including the UCC Coffee Bazaar stores that explain a variety of brewing methods and drinking styles to their customers as an added service.
The beverage systems sales segment involves meeting the needs of offices and developing coffee service systems through Keurig Coffee and Caffe Vario systems and Contenta. Keuring Coffee involves cups containing a paper filter and a single serving of regular coffee, into the machine. UCC's Caffe Vario is an extracting system that uses paper-cup vending machines. The concentrated coffee is quick frozen and transported from the factory to the vending machine frozen and refrigerated, which is then utilized to make cups of coffee. Another system developed by UCC is Contenta, a dispensing system for offices and a more compact version of Caffe Vario.
UCC's coffee estates business includes managing the operations of coffee estates. The company's coffee estates include UCC Blue Mountain Coffee Craighton Estate, UCC Hawaii Kona Coffee Estate and P.T. UCC Lintong Mandheling Coffee Estate.