Orinoco Coffee & Tea

Employee Size

11-50

Organization Type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Jessup, MD

Four generations after Leonardo Alarcon began working with coffee beans in southwest Venezuela, Orinoco Coffee & Tea remains a family-rooted roasting company with its home in Maryland. Its work carries a 1909 heritage into custom-roasted coffee and premium tea for retailers, coffee shops, and grocery chains across the United States.

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