page_title: Café Rico
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Café Rico / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Café Rico Headquarters in Barrio San Antón, Ponce, Puerto Rico
context_page_description: Café Rico is a Puerto Rican corporation that manufactures coffee branded by the same name. The company's headquarters are located at Avenida Las Americas/Route 163 and Calle Comercio/Route 133 in Barrio San Antón in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The company used to be called Cooperativa de Cafeteros.
  Its coffee has been reported to be Puerto Rico's best and its San Carlos Selection is said to have been the Vatican's favorite coffee at one time. The company has the only coffee tasting lab and the only Certified Taster on the Island. The company has a partnership with Yauco Selecto Estate Coffee.
context_section_description: Cooperativa de Cafeteros was founded on 11 June 1924. Its first administrator was Ramiro L. Colon. It was the first agricultural cooperative union in Puerto Rico. One of its major goals, when it was founded was to become a major player in the coffee business by being not just the major grower of Puerto Rican coffee, but also its major manufacturer.
  In September 2009, the company closed the 110,000 square feet (10,000 m²) Avenida Las Americas plant for renovations and Puerto Rico Coffee Roasters spent $8 million to reopen it again in December 2010. Today, the Las Americas plant performs some 60% of the company's coffee roasting operations there.
  In July 2008, Puerto Rico Coffee Roaster purchased the Café Rico, Café Yaucono, and Café Rioja brands, thus acquiring about 60 percent of Puerto Rico's coffee market.
caption: Café Rico headquarters in barrio San Antón
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