Café Rico

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.

In July 2008, Puerto Rico Coffee Roaster acquired Cafe Rico as well as Cafe Yaucono and Cafe Rioja, which together account for some 60% of the coffee consumed in Puerto Rico. Cafe Rico stopped operations out of its Las Americas Avenue plant in Ponce in September 2008 but, in August 2010, Puerto Rico Coffee Roaster announced plans to invest US$8 million to bring the plant back into operation. With the investment, its Santurce operations will move to Ponce. This will make the Las Americas location "the largest coffee roasting location in the Caribbean" and the facility "the most modern coffee roasting facility in the Caribbean."