First Colony Coffee & Tea Company Fact Sheet

• Originally founded in 1902 as the James G. Gill Company. The First Colony name was adopted in the 1970s.
  
  
• First Colony was one of the first specialty roasters in the country.
  
  
• In 1995, First Colony partnered with the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia – Comité Departamental de Cafeteros de Antioquia, the largest organization of coffee farmers in Colombia. First Colony is majority grower-owned and the only vertically integrated coffee company in the United States.
  
  
• Over 100 years later, First Colony still roasts their coffees the old-fashioned way by using sight, smell and sound.
  
  
• All First Colony coffees are hand-selected and small batch roasted for exceptional quality.
  
  
• All First Colony coffees are 100% Arabica.
• First Colony is the largest private-label roaster for some of the nation’s finest department stores.
  
  
• First Colony is the exclusive roaster for Ghirardelli®, Jack Daniel’s®, Southern Comfort®, Tia Maria®, Carolan’s® Irish Cream and Frangelico®.
  
• First Colony offers third-party certified organic coffees and Fair Trade Certified organic coffees.