Our relationship
ZAB × Apex A long-standing Canadian partnership.
Jeff founded Apex Coffee Imports in 2016, the same year as Zab! We met a few years later and very quickly started buying our Ethiopian coffees from him.
Back then, it was a tiny company, and Jeff was super hands-on, approachable and generous with his time. He'd text us directly from origin whenever he came across lots that might interest us, and we've always had excellent coffees thanks to him.
A few years ago, Apex merged with Origine 117, which also owns the coffee company St-Henri, and Julie became a co-owner in the process. At the time, Julie was the green buyer at St-Henri; she's also an OG of the Montreal coffee scene and a genuine wealth of knowledge who's really cool to work with. And in French, on top of that!
In 2023, we travelled to Colombia with them, and it was an extraordinary and enriching trip. There we met Francy Castillo and her whole crew, who we've been doing business with ever since! Apex is especially strong on origins like Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala and Ethiopia.
