Mount Hagen coffee trader steps up with overseas deals

PATRICK Killoran is one of Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand’s (PTI NZ) colourful clients.
The tall gangly Australian has been operating his coffee business in Mt Hagen for several years.
But in the past two or three years, he has stepped up his game.
In 2016, Killoran was invited to attend PTI NZ’s Path to Market delegation to Auckland’s Pasifika Festival with a small group of PNG business entrepreneurs.
He was also then invited to attend the Fine Foods Auckland Show followed by Food Show Australia in Melbourne and the SIAL 2016 in Paris and London’s Caffe Culture in 2017 (which he’s planning to go back to this year.)
Since then, Killoran has spent time consolidating his efforts and doing the things he could manage.
2017 was a challenging year.
But he made it through and continued to grow his business, slowly but surely.
He now has regular customers in Fiji, where he is exporting monthly, and the Cook Islands.
He has revitalised a coffee contact in Holland after being SIAL 2016 and now has regular shipments to Finland.