Cothas Coffee was founded in the year 1949 in Bangalore to supply and market roast and ground filter coffee powder through four neighborhood stores in the city. Seeing the ever increasing demand for the unique taste and flavor of filter coffee, a centralized coffee roasting plant was set up in the early 1980s with state-of-the-art roasting, grinding and packaging machines brought from Europe. With better technology and processes, the company was able to enhance the quality and became the most favorite filter coffee powder in Karnataka in the 1990s and in the other parts of the country by the turn of the century. The company is fully owned and run with the help of a professional management team that includes my son C.S. Nitin – an Industrial engineer and a management graduate. Today, we operate from a much bigger plant at Jigani, Bengaluru, which has an installed capacity of close to 4,000 tons per annum of finished coffee in the form of roasted beans and roast and ground filter coffee. The products are exported to all the overseas countries that have a reasonable number of South Indian immigrants. Cothas Coffee has recently ventured into supplying authentic filter coffee to corporate offices and high footfall areas with the aid of indigenously developed bulk coffee brewing equipment. The taste of Cothas Coffee has always been distinct due to its flavor and mouthfeel. Families hailing from South India have been strongly connected with the brand for many years. Once they consume “Cothas”, by and large the consumers don’t switch to any other brand as the company has been able to maintain the same taste and quality for many years and cup after cup. Apart from homes, most of the South Indian vegetarian restaurants strongly believe that a good cup of coffee after a meal / tiffin can satisfy their customers fully and Cothas Coffee has been one of the most preferred filter coffees in such restaurants.