SA Coffee Entrepreneur Mhlengi Ngcobo Makes It To The Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 Class Of 2023!
SA Coffee Entrepreneur Mhlengi Ngcobo Makes It To The Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 Class Of 2023! Mhlengi Ngcobo is a South African entreprenur that founded a coffee company called CoffeeMM at just 22 years. Forbes Africa recently revealed the 30 Under 30 Class Of 2023 and Ngcobo was included as he is an innovative entrepreneur that created a distruptive business.
Mr Ngcobo was a Civil engineering student studying at the University Western Cape, South Africa. Mr Ngcobo has always been fond of coffee, during his early years in high school he was diagnosed with Young Hypertension. The doctors recommended that he stops consuming coffee because it has a high level of caffeine. This was difficult for him and hence he chose to study coffee in depth to see and understand the negatives of drinking coffee. His love for coffee grew even stronger while studying at university and doing a project management course to which he had to choose one type of business to specialize on.
Mr Ngcobo chose a coffee business. That meant that he had to devote all his energy into studying the market for coffee in South Africa. As a student Mr Ngcobo claim he used to drink 5-6 cups of coffee per day, ranging from cappuccino, lattes, Americano and occasionally espresso. Mr Ngcobo had a cliché “Coffee keeps me going…” and still uses this cliché to this day. The company and brand he established is about bringing together customer experience and creating opportunities for the communities. The company believes that unless it is creating real value and making difference in people’s lives it would not have achieved its vision.
CoffeeMM is a coffee roastery located in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. In the initial phase of the business CoffeeMM focuses on selling coffee online using E-Commerce and supplying restaurants and companies with fresh gourmet coffee. It sources fresh green coffee beans from African countries (Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Burundi and also Indonesia) and roast them using reputable coffee roasters and baristas. CoffeeMM sells gourmet coffees, espresso, lattes, hot chocolate and Cappuccinos.
