Coffee is our business

In addition to storage, quality control and processing, we offer you individual logistics solutions and respond flexibly to adjustments in the market.

NKG Kala is a modern service provider in the global green coffee business, market leader in our industry and member of Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG):
Since our foundation in 1956, we have grown continuously and today we are the world’s leading green coffee specialist.

Our fields of activity are as diverse as the world’s coffee consumption: from storage to processing and delivery of green coffee, we make a relevant and multifaceted contribution to the green coffee supply chain. Every day, our services provide valuable impetus for the global coffee market.

Coffee is our passion.

Our history

1956
Foundation of Kaffee Lagerei GmbH at Sandtorkai, Hamburg


1974
Commissioning of the world’s first coffee silo,
expansion of silo capacities in 1983 and 1994


1978
Arrival of the first shipping container with coffee in bags in Hamburg


2004
Acceptance of the first bulk container with green coffee


2006
Construction of HafenCity and relocation of operations from Sandtorkai to Hohe Schaar,
green coffee center for storage, production, goods handling and logistics


2021
98 employees look after the goods entrusted to us – namely coffee – 24 hours a day and 5 days a week


Coffee is our tradition, our present, and our future.

Our team

We are Kala

We are proud that the principles of tradition and modernity are also reflected in our workforce.

Committed and qualified employees are crucial for the success of our company. In addition to flat hierarchies and a casual corporate culture at all levels, we ensure that our organization maintains a familiar, relaxed atmosphere and look forward to our annual team events and celebrations.

We work a 37.5-hour week, which can be flexibly implemented in the office. For us, mobile administrative work during the week is just as much a part of this as modern office equipment. In the commercial area, we work 24 hours a day and 5 days a week according to fixed shift times, which change in weekly rhythms.

In addition to high-quality coffee, water and fruit are available to our employees at all times. A daily changing lunch menu is available in our own subsidized canteen.

Our employees can also take advantage of other benefits such as the JobRad, HVV ProfiTicket, their own parking space, 30 vacation days, language courses, weekly in-house training courses, company pension plan, asset management and other social benefits. Benefits and other social benefits are available to our employees.

Through our ideology of promoting young talent, accompanied by our moral compass (Code of Conduct), we see ourselves as a “Kala family”!

If you would like to become part of our team, please have a look at our job portal.

We are proud that the principles of tradition and modernity are also reflected in our workforce.

Committed and qualified employees are crucial for the success of our company. In addition to flat hierarchies and a casual corporate culture at all levels, we ensure that our organization maintains a familiar, relaxed atmosphere and look forward to our annual team events and celebrations.

We work a 37.5-hour week, which can be flexibly implemented in the office. For us, mobile administrative work during the week is just as much a part of this as modern office equipment. In the commercial area, we work 24 hours a day and 5 days a week according to fixed shift times, which change in weekly rhythms.

In addition to high-quality coffee, water and fruit are available to our employees at all times. A daily changing lunch menu is available in our own subsidized canteen.

Our employees can also take advantage of other benefits such as the JobRad, HVV ProfiTicket, their own parking space, 30 vacation days, language courses, weekly in-house training courses, company pension plan, asset management and other social benefits. Benefits and other social benefits are available to our employees.

Through our ideology of promoting young talent, accompanied by our moral compass (Code of Conduct), we see ourselves as a “Kala family”!

If you would like to become part of our team, please have a look at our job portal.

If you would also like to become part of our team, then please take a look at our
Job Portal

Because young talent is the future.

Our Responsibility

NKG Integrity Reporting Platform for NKG employees and external stakeholders.

NKG Kala Hamburg is acting as part of NKG responsibly towards our colleagues, shareholders, local communities and business partners and cultivate a relationship of mutual trust at all levels.
To safeguard this trust, we must strive to prevent unethical or illegal conduct at work and listen to everyone in our value chain when it comes to potential misconduct.
We encourage you to openly discuss your observations regarding potential misconduct with your direct superior, Compliance Representative, or local management. NKG companies’ dedicated local reporting channels can be used wherever these are available and accessible. The Integrity Reporting Platform is an alternative channel for reporting genuine concerns and open to NKG employees as well as external stakeholders.
Reports made in good faith and to your best knowledge will not result in any negative consequences by NKG. The knowing submission of false or misleading information, however, will lead to serious consequences and is a criminal offence in many countries.
Your cooperation is important to prevent and combat illegal, unethical or improper conduct.

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