Cooxupé was recognized as champion in sustainability, by ‘Prêmio Melhores do Agronegócio 2025’ (2025 Best Agribusiness Award). Sponsored by Revista Globo Rural and Editora Globo, in partnership with Serasa Experian. The ceremony, which celebrated the sector’s most prominent companies, took place in November 24th in São Paulo, attended by the leading figures in Brazilian agribusiness.

The achievement underscores the commitment of Cooxupé with the socio-environmental responsibility, the care with the environment and the promotion of good agricultural practices among its more than 21 thousand members. Cooxupé is a benchmark for sustainability in the field for promoting a number of initiatives focused on responsible production. Gerações Protocol worths special mention. It involves either Cooxupé and its members to a set of guidelines aligned to the ESG pillars, which guides every step from cultivation to the commercialization of coffee.

ESG driven efforts

In addition to Gerações Protocol and other projects, Cooxupé’s efforts also include:

• works focused on regenerative coffee farming
• support for researches on carbon capture in coffee crops
• the operation of the Environmental Education Center, which promotes awareness to children and young students of public schools in South of Minas Gerais
• and projects of restoration of forests and water springs.

The co-op members also receive constant technical support, including incentives for good agricultural practices and the rational use of resources, which ensures greater market competitiveness and reinforces the responsibility for environmental preservation.

“The commitment of Cooxupé to sustainability is constant. To this end, we have implemented our own sustainability protocol, ‘Gerações’. Which is inclusive and brings together all our cooperative members, respecting their specific production realities, in addition to many other projects that we develop and seriously support. Our coffee farming is a model when it comes to meeting global demands. And receiving this award, which make us proud. It shows that our management and governance are on the right path”. Says Carlos Augusto Rodrigues de Melo, the cooperative’s President.

Cooxupé is also featured in the 21st Agribusiness Yearbook 2025

Released during the award ‘Prêmio Melhores do Agronegócio 2025’, the publication ranks the largest companies in more than 20 segments of the national agribusiness sector, based on technical criteria for evaluating results and aspects of socio-environmental responsibility.

In this Yearbook, Cooxupé leads Minas Gerais ranking that maps the largest companies by state, in addition to standing out in fourth place among the ten largest Brazilian cooperatives. Still among the Brazilian cooperatives analyzed, Cooxupé occupied first position in the Growth and Assets and Net Revenue. Meanwhile, among the 500 largest agribusiness companies, Cooxupé holds 34th position. In the regional ranking of the 50 largest, for Brazil Southeast region, the cooperative is ranked 21st.

Melhores do Agronegócio Award

The prize, in its 21st edition, is considered one of the most relevant in Brazilian agribusiness. To define the champions, the organizers technically evaluate both economic and financial performance, and the companies’ sustainability initiatives. The analysis is conducted by Serasa Experian specialists that collect, process and interpret the data submitted by the companies based on their financial statements for the 2024 fiscal year. Furthermore, the results are validated by an independent jury council, composed of economists, university professors and representatives of industry institutions.

According to Globo Rural magazine, more than 580 companies operating in different links of the production chain were analyzed this year.