The business of coffee in Ethiopia is rather complicated and almost always managed at government level. Prices are set by the financial markets in the London and New York stock exchanges where the financial brokers and authorized intermediaries deliver to roasting companies who are responsible for transforming the product, creating blends, packaging, distributing and promoting.

The role of the coffee roaster is of great importance: because it represents the passage that gives the coffee bean the characteristic that makes it consumable product.

The work of the coffee roaster can be interpreted as a real art. Although modern technology provides sophisticated work tools, in Ethiopia traditional processing procedures are still used for the full taste of coffee.