Perhaps a quintessential UAE entrepreneurship success story, Archers was founded in 2018 by a group of six friends from different walks of life. They were brought together by their love for specialty coffee and the desire to spread the joy of the specialty coffee experience all over the country. Thankfully, too, the country’s robust global trade infrastructure enabled their shared ambition to thrive. Having observed that the barrier to more people enjoying their common passion was the near absence of appropriately priced, high-quality green beans and specialty coffee education, they established Archers as a green coffee trader, roastery, and coffee academy to contribute to solving the problem. From the start, Archers has been chasing top quality by focusing on higher-end specialty coffees, sourcing only cup scores 85-86 and higher, and pursuing and nurturing relationships with a meticulously selected coterie of like-minded producing partners driven by the same aspiration to excellence. Consequently, the Archers roasting approach respects the hard work and dedication of our producing partners to provide us with high-quality greens by roasting with the intention of merely revealing the intrinsic virtues of terroir and variety, and giving way for the remarkable attributes, achieved through purposeful processing to shine. At Archers, the aim has always been and will always be to continually meet the evolving needs of our customers — at all levels — and contribute to advancing our industry and enriching our community. We have done this so far by expanding our coffee collection of single origins to include 13 countries, represented by some of the world’s most renowned producers. We’ve also recently begun to expand our comfort zone, through the inclusion of coffee capsules and bespoke blends in our collection, without compromising our values of quality, transparency, and sustainability. In doing so, we have been able to encourage those who may still be early in their specialty coffee journey, and even those who have been needing an extra nudge to begin, to explore more and take their ongoing discovery of specialty coffee deeper.