Since ´95

Who We Are

Amigos del Parque S.A. is a Colombian business, legitimately established, in whose social object is deposited the support to the preservation and restoration of the cultural and natural patrimony of the andean and caribbean bioregion, for that from the labor of restoration (Coffee Shops) in Medellin, Colombia, it is seeked to make the bond in both directions of the urban with the rural, by the commercializing of products and services from the indigenous, root and coffee growing communities of the bioregion, the cultural exchange and the transfer of appropriate technologies.

We look forward to interpolate the model that has been built in the last 13 years in Medellín, for Latin american and caribbean cities to open Coffee Shops where there are represented the initiatives of the rurality of each of the countries, and that way help in the construction of runways vectors and connections between the urban and the rural, where the labors of nature and socio cultural conservation are dignified and the necessities of development for the urban inhabitant are compiled.

• SPECIALTY COFFEE SHOPS
• NATURAL RESERVES AND ECOVILLAGES
• TOURISM OPERATION
• COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

ENTERPRISE: a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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About LBC @ Medellín – Opportunities

LeBon Café® -The Good Coffee- is the brand that represents a network of specialty coffee shops pioneers in the city of Medellin.

Since 1995, LeBon Café® is focused to the consumer of healthy and environmentally and socially friendly products; located in the segment of young executives and students (16-40) who find in the specialty coffee shops a space that offers the same as the big world trends in matter of fashion and fun with environmental and social responsibility; and products and services that hardly are offered in the same place. Besides from an excellent cup of specialty coffee, LeBon Café® offers complementary services: restoration (crepes, salads, bakery, ice cream), wine, liquors and cocktails, tobacco, magazines, national and international literature, urban cultural expressions promotion, permanent cultural programming, sales and representation of handcrafts, and ecotourism programs in Latinoamerican Ecovillages and Natural Reserves, by Expediciones Makondo Expeditions

LeBon Café® has been able to position itself in a market that represents competitive and comparative advantages of great importance. For one side, the market of specialty coffees is in a rise worldwide and in Latin America. Likewise, the culture of a good cup of coffee, and the meeting places around this millenary drink starts to awaken with strength in Colombia and Latin America, region that paradoxically has been by tradition the great producer of this grain.

Certified since 03 by the Specialty Coffee Association of America as “Members in a Good Standing”, thanks to, that the Company Amigos del Parque S.A., owner of the brand LeBon Café® accomplishes a series of parameters in the preparation of the different drinks and the daily operation of the shops, amongst which are mentioned the correct representation of the interests of small coffee growers of the Antioquian southwest, indigenous communities and intentional projects like Eco villages and Natural reserves of the Colombian Civil Society.

The rising consumption of specialty coffee in Colombia and in the world, the same as the Slow Food movement, and the newly born Ecotourism market in the country, allow to visualize an operative scene of maximum potentialities in the national as international media.

Is an aggregate value of the brand LeBon Cafe® the fact of working with present projects in: Nuquí, Bahía Solano, Old Providence, Restrepo, La Calera, Medellín, Quimbaya, Sasardí, El Darién, Tierra Adentro, Santa Elena, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, among others; which are operating models of sustainable development that require an urban commercial support, support and representation that at the same time permits LeBon Café® to offer all of its national and international visitors a brochure of Sustainable Tourism Products that guarantee Whole Tourism Experiences.

Amigos del Parque S.A. operates equally with coffee growers’s cooperatives and non government organizations that represent the social and environmental interests of the Enterprise and the peasant and indigenous communities, allowing this way the operation with different brands of coffee beans and the positioning of the brand LeBon Café® as the place where are prepared all the specialty coffee based beverages with a maximum excellence.

Finally, to guarantee the model of expansion proposed, LeBon Café® has a strategic alliance for the toasting, commercialization and exportation of the coffee. Is through this alliance that LeBon Café® guarantees that the beans cultivated in a socially and environmentally friendly manner continue its cycle of peeling, toast, and packaging with the same highest standards of quality, so that later, in the phase of final preparation and/or commercialization in charge of the LeBon Café® shops, it keeps the same cares, guaranteeing this way a sustainable coffee from the plantation to the cup and being consequent with the corporative mission.

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If you are interested in working with us, send your resume.

If you wish to contact project leaders in the different cities, or if you wish to be a part of the investment fund for the opening of Natural Reserves, Ecovillages, Tourism Operation and/or Specialty Coffee Shops, write us an email specifying in the subject. Remember to write in it why are you interested in our office and way of doing things.

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Carlos Gómez Jaramillo

AMIGOS DEL PARQUE S.A.

Parque Lleras Calle 9 Nº 39-09

Medellín – Colombia S.A.