Peace Coffee was formed by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in 1996[3] The company also partnered with Rigoberta Menchú.

[5] In early 2018 the company was purchased from IATP by long time CEO Lee Wallace and her business partner, Kent Pilakowski.

Co-operatives are necessary due to the high scale of demand from a large company like Peace Coffee.

Although Peace Coffee does consistently travel the countries of origin, visiting their co-ops at least once every two years, they do not have the same influence on cup quality because of the larger number of growers.

[5] While the company uses the bicycle couriers within the cities, it purchased a biodiesel van for deliveries to the suburbs and out of state.