Dear friends,

Welcome to the “SFT Trading Ltd.” site. The company was established in 1995. During the first years of its existence the company was engaged in import and wholesale of so called colonial foodstuff like tea, coffee, rice and spices.
Since 1999 the company is specializing in import of green coffee beans to Russia and, particularly in the recent years, in import of high quality coffee, that is, of specialty coffee. In 2010 “SFT Trading” ranks among the 6 leading importers of green coffee to Russia.

What are the advantages of our company? These are:

- exceptional professionalism and large practical experience of our staff. All the directors have MA in Economics (foreign trade), more than half of the employees work for the company all along;

- guaranteed high level of product’s quality. We are doing our best to ensure to the maximum possible extent a stable level of quality and taste of each coffee grade during a particular crop year;

- constant movement forward. We were the first to keep at a Moscow warehouse a large range of different coffee grades. Now we store on average 150 tons of coffee representing 35 grades from 20 origins. The current range offered to the buyers you may find at Grades.
We were the first to introduce to the Russian coffee market a number of new grades. Please, pay your attention to our Special Projects. I am sure that you will get the proof that we are really moving forward and we welcome you to join us in such a movement;

- an established business reputation in Russia and abroad.
Our buyers are represented by more than 70 roasters spreading all over the country from St.Petersburg at the west to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk at the east. Among them there are enterprises of 10-15-years’ existence, which are top companies in specialty segment, alongside with some recently opened coffee shops which roast coffee solely for themselves.
Our suppliers are represented by such well-known European traders as “ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd.”, Switzerland, “Russian Coffee Co.”, UK, “Schluter S.A.”, Switzerland, “Sandalj Trading Co.”, Italy, “List & Beisler GmbH”, Germany, "Blaser Trading AG", Switzerland, “Blue Mountain Coffee (Europe) Ltd.”, UK , "Supremo NV S.A.", Belgium, Brazilian exporter company “Ipanema”.
Our bankers - Evrovinance Mosnarbank Joint Stock Company and Sberbank (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation), Moscow.

In 2000 “SFT Trading Ltd.” became a member of Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) and Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE);

- persistent endeavour to enlarge our knowledge about coffee and share it with our buyers. Whenever opportunities arise, we are holding seminars on different subjects related to green coffee. Our specialists visited coffee plantations in Brazil, Costa-Rica, Guatemala, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru and Tansania and our business partners joined us in all these trips.

Please, check our Photo Gallery and Company News section. I hope you may wish to participate in new seminars, trips and meetings.

This site was created to assist you in getting the required information. Ask your questions in the Guestbook – and we ensure you that none of them remains without an elaborated answer. We will appreciate your opinion on what we are doing and how we are doing it as well as your proposals how we can improve our work. And finally, do not forget – “SFT Trading” knows the coffee you need and this coffee is awaiting your order.

Sincerely yours,
Andrey Savinov
General Director