Trevor Fenner

The real sequence for starting a private label coffee brand: decide the sales channel first because it eliminates suppliers, then the unit economics from published per pound numbers, then the minimum order against your cash, then packaging, labelling and lead time. Brand name comes near the end.

Only two private label coffee suppliers publish both a minimum order quantity and a unit cost you can budget against: Texas Artisan at 50 lbs per blend with a $250 setup, and Path at 25 bags with a $350 to $400 setup. Fresh Roasted Coffee’s minimum is a pallet, and a pallet is never defined.

Six of the eleven wholesale coffee suppliers we read publish no minimum order quantity at all. This ranking scores them on what you can verify before you commit a dollar: published MOQ, published pricing, marketplace resale policy, who supplies the bag, lead times and facility certifications.

Seven Fresh Roasted Coffee alternatives organised by the reason you are leaving: the Amazon ban, the 30 lbs monthly minimum, who supplies the bag, published private label pricing and facility certifications. Only 5 of 11 suppliers publish a minimum at all.

Fresh Roasted Coffee publishes a 30 lbs monthly wholesale minimum. Coffee Bean Direct’s commercial page is a lead form with no MOQ, no pricing, no lead time and no named certifications. Its public prices are retail, not wholesale.

Fresh Roasted Coffee is $10.00 per pound at 5 lb but bars marketplace resale of its branded product. Old Chicago is $12.70 and names eBay and Amazon as permitted channels. Where you sell decides which one you can actually use.

Every published Fresh Roasted Coffee price for eleven products at all four real sizes, converted to cost per pound with the division shown. The 30 lb case works out to $9.00 per pound against $19.99 for the same coffee in a 12 oz pouch, plus what the $7.95 flat rate does to your real cost and why the company publishes three different free shipping thresholds.

Fresh Roasted Coffee bars resale of its branded product on Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish, and points resellers at its CJ affiliate programme instead. Here is what that means for your store, plus the real cost per pound at every size, the 30 lb wholesale minimum, and the four different shipping thresholds the company publishes on its own pages.