About Coffee Supreme
Coffee Supreme is a specialty coffee roaster launched in Wellington, New Zealand in the early 1990s, now operating across New Zealand, Australia, and Japan under CEO Andrew Low. The company holds B Corp certification with an overall B Impact Score of 85.4, placing it among a small cohort of certified coffee businesses in the Australasian market.
About
Coffee Supreme launched in Wellington in the early 1990s and has since grown into one of the Southern Hemisphere's most recognizable specialty roasters, operating across New Zealand, Australia, and Japan. The company earned B Corp certification with an overall B Impact Score of 85.4, a benchmark that places it among a small cohort of certified coffee businesses in the Australasian market. CEO Andrew Low has been the public face of the brand's international expansion.
Born out of Wellington's early specialty scene, Coffee Supreme built its reputation through cafe partnerships and a direct-to-consumer model before either was commonplace in New Zealand. The brand's bi-national roots — it operates under the same identity in both New Zealand and Australia — gave it unusual scale for an independent roaster, and the Japan market followed as a logical extension of that growth. Its longevity across three decades and three markets is the clearest signal of sustained relevance.
The current coffee lineup leans toward single-origin filter work, with rotating lots from Uganda (Bunyangabu), Rwanda (Nyamyumba, offered in both washed and natural), Ethiopia (Guji), Colombia (Cauca, including a decaf), and Brazil (Bob-O-Link natural). Blends like the Big Joe Filter Blend round out the catalog for everyday brewing. The range reflects a sourcing posture that favors traceable, named lots across a broad geographic spread rather than a single-origin focus on one producing region.
In the Press
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Coffee & Beans Review
World Coffee Portal reported Coffee Supreme's B Corp certification, noting the 85.4 B Impact Score — a figure that suggests meaningful performance across environment, community, and governance metrics rather than a nominal certification. Sprudge covered the opening of a Coffee Supreme cafe in Christchurch, describing the brand as 'born in Wellington in the early 1990s and now bi-national,' and contextualizing it within New Zealand's broader third-wave trajectory. Andrew Low, the company's CEO, spoke about the NZ–Australia–Japan expansion arc in a YouTube interview, framing growth as a deliberate geographic progression rather than opportunistic scaling.
For those not near a Coffee Supreme cafe, the online shop is the primary access point. The subscription service — available in flexible configurations with options to skip, adjust quantities, or change delivery addresses — ships across New Zealand and internationally via DHL. Single-origin filter offerings are priced between NZD $21.50 and $28.00 per 250g, and the site runs a partnership with La Marzocco that bundles a six-month subscription with select home machine purchases. Gift subscriptions are available prepaid, a format that has become increasingly common among specialty roasters but which Coffee Supreme has built visible retail infrastructure around.
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