The Hamodava Coffee Company is a beverage manufacturer based in Auckland, New Zealand. Hamodava distributes exclusively Fair Trade and Organic certified products. Salvation Army officer Herbert Booth started the business in Melbourne, Australia in 1897[1] and ran it until its closure in 1929. Hamodava was relaunched by The Salvation Army in September 2016, with the company's operations being moved to Auckland.

Hamodava
Company typePrivate limited liability company
IndustryCoffee Importer and Roaster
FoundedMelbourne, 1897
FounderHerbert Booth
Headquarters
Area served
Auckland, New Zealand
ProductsCoffee
ParentThe Salvation Army

History

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Herbert Henry Howard Booth, a Salvation Army officer and son of its cofounder William Booth, was appointed to the command of the organization's operations in Australia and New Zealand. Booth founded the Hamodava Tea Company in 1897, along with Ashley Lamb as a means to provide funds to support the work of The Salvation Army. Lamb sourced tea from Sri Lanka and blended and packed the product for retail in Melbourne. With the success of the original product, Hamodava also introduced a cocoa and a coffee product to the line two years later.[2] The Hamodava Tea Company continued trading up until 1929 when international tea prices collapsed,[3] and with the onset of the Great Depression the company was disbanded.

Hamodava comes from the Sinhalese word for 'army'.[citation needed] Hamodava pioneered ethical fair-trade practices. The company sought to pay a fair price to the farmers who grew the produce and developed a scheme by which the farmers could make payments towards purchasing plantations from The Salvation Army.[4]

In September 2016, The Salvation Army relaunched Hamodava. and it is now used as a community center. [citation needed]

Hamodava Café

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The Hamodava Cafe is situated on Bourke Street in Melbourne, Australia. The cafe operates out of a heritage building that once housed the original company in the late 1800s. It is a community centre providing breakfast and lunch.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "A New Tea—Introduced by the Salvation Army". Darling Downs Gazette. 15 January 1898.
  2. ^ THQ, The Salvation Army Australia Eastern Territory. "Tea for transformation » others.org.au/". others.org.au. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. ^ "The History of the International Tea Market, 1850–1945". eh.net. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  4. ^ "The social cup". www.salvationarmy.org.nz. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  5. ^ Army, Salvation. "Hamodava Cafe". The Salvation Army. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
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