Who rules Vietnam’s coffee market? VietNamNet Bridge - The domestic coffee market in the past was controlled by big players Trung Nguyen, Nestcafe and Vinacafe. Vietnam is a big coffee exporterIn 2013, the market began heating up with the arrival of Starbucks and other coffee chains, including South Korea’s Coffee Bene, the US’s PJ’s Coffee and Vietnam’s The Coffee House, Trung Nguyen, Highlands, Phuc Long and Passio. ‘Laymen’ also grow coffeeThe Coffee House, a coffee chain brand, in early 2018 unexpectedly announced the purchase of farms, storehouses and roasters to start growing coffee trees in Da Lat. According to the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association, Vietnam has over 150 coffee export companies and 3,000 coffee collectors, but only one-third of enterprises have coffee bean processing factories that make products for export.

Source: VietNamNet News April 14, 2018 11:15 UTC