SOCOTRA BIO INC.
Who We Are

Socotra Bio Inc. is an experienced international trading company headquartered in Canada with offices in Ottawa, Ontario, as well as London UK, Saudi Arabia, Dubai UAE, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Yemen. The Company was established in 2016 by its CEO Mitak Awad, and has since then provided quality products and services to our customers throughout North America, Europe and East Africa, building on his more than 25 years’ experience in international trading. The company’s name was inspired by the Yemeni island of Socotra and its unique biodiversity (hence Socotra Bio), and it began operations working with organic coffee, tea and Sidr honey from Yemen and Ethiopia, and has grown in leaps and bounds since then. Our products are sourced from many countries around the world, and cater to a variety of different industries and routes to market, including Inventors, Importers, Distributors, Wholesalers, Retailers and Online Sales.

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What We Can Do For You

Through our collective partners Socotra Bio Inc. provides the equipment and products that keep industries moving. Food processors rely on us for the widest range of raw materials as well as state of the art processing, preparation and conveying solutions available. Combining mechanical excellence with innovative digital technologies, we keep our manufacturing clientele running reliably and efficiently. We offer highly-durable, food-safe solutions that meet the hygiene, sanitation and safety requirements of all levels of food production, enabling food processors to efficiently produce safe, quality foods for consumers around the globe. Our food processor clients can rely on the products in our portfolio to:

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Our Trustworthy International Manufacturing Partners

The world’s eating habits are rapidly changing with the growing trend toward living in urbanized areas, coupled with the increasing diversity of ethnic food options available. Food preparation technology must keep up with not only the increased demand for processed food products, but also with food products that reflect these shifting epicurean demands. Meeting these diverse demands calls for food producers, now more than ever, to focus on streamlined, clean operations, utilizing the most efficient preparation and processing equipment and techniques available, and more efficient food processing equipment and techniques are constantly being developed to cope.

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A Leader In Innovation

Socotra Bio Inc. has exclusive collective partnerships with over 100 manufacturers and factories around the globe, in a huge variety of enterprises ranging from agriculture and food production, to light and heavy equipment supply, to housing and transportation, and even to oil and gas production and its ancillaries. Additionally, we are able to source almost any commodity or manufactured good, regardless of its application. Innovation – the ability to take an existing item and re-vision and/or repurpose it, or even take an idea and make it into a reality – is one of our greatest core strengths. The ideas that mold our philosophy are the drivers behind our innovation and collaboration. We understand our customers’ needs, and by learning to embrace our clients’ visions we help them to achieve that next level of automation and/or productivity that they aspire to. With Socotra Bio Inc. no dream is too big and no innovation is too complex for us to handle.

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From Our Trees To Your Cup

Socotra-Bio Inc. owns and operates 2 small private family farms situated by the famous historic Mocha Port in Yemen. Mocha lies at the head of a shallow bay on Yemen’s southwestern coast bordering the Red Sea. The Mocha Port has been associated with coffee since it was founded in the early 1300’s. Our farms consist of 17 acres of land with approximately 7000+ arabica coffee trees. We are also affiliated with many other small coffee farmers in Yemen, and with a number of small farmers in Harar, Ethiopia. The name Mocha Monks was inspired by the Sufi monks who lived in the monastery in the Yemeni city of Mocha. These monks, according to legend, were the ones who first started roasting and serving coffee as a beverage, a tradition that spread from the Arabian Peninsula to Turkey and then throughout the Ottoman Empire to Europe and beyond. Mocha Monks is the exclusive trademarked brand of Socotra Bio Inc., along with its subsidiary Mocha Monks Express. It is to these mystics that the world owes a debt of gratitude, one that is expressed daily with every sip of coffee, and it is in their honour that we created Mocha Monks as our trademark.
However Mocha Monks is not just the name under which the coffees, teas, herbs and spices that are sourced, prepared and packaged by Socotra Bio Inc. are sold – it is also the name of the one-of- a-kind restaurant and café operated at its headquarters in Greely, Ontario, Canada. The restaurant and cafe feature an eclectic and diverse menu, featuring dishes and finger foods that bring a fusion of the flavours of the Arabian and Mediterranean worlds married with the exotic and tantalizing tastes of North and East Africa, and Central America and the Caribbean.

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– Our Indonesian Tea Plantation Partnership

Socotra Bio Inc.’s partner Mr. Yudi Kusuma in Rancabali, Indonesia, is a tea farmer who rose from modest beginnings to having a respected reputation as an established leader in the tea co-packing and manufacturing industry. In partnering with Mr. Kusuma we turned our passion for truly fine tea into creating the most customer-obsessed, premier private label tea manufacturing company in North America. We provide our customers a different kind of tea experience with our diversified co-packing services tailored to meet their needs, from private branding to premium gift packaging.

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The Finest Cocoa In The World

Some of the best cocoa in the world comes from Trinidad & Tobago, and Trinitario cocoa, one of the three varieties of cocoa, is indigenous to the islands. The others are Criollo, which is also fine/flavour, and the lower-grade Forastero (Trinitario cocoa is actually an interbreeding of these two varieties).
Socotra Bio Inc. has a wholly-owned subsidiary in the twin island Republic, Socotra Bio (Trinidad) Ltd., and has its own privately run coffee and cocoa estates from which we get some of the finest and unique organic coffee and cocoa beans in the world, as well as exotic spices and organic sugar products. Traditionally Trinidad does not produce enough coffee to export, and Socotra Bio Inc. has the only commercial quantities of Trinidad coffee in North America. But the true gem is the Trinitario cocoa, which is considered the finest cocoa in the world and is prized for making the finest chocolates in the world.
Socotra Bio (Trinidad) Ltd. is a fully government-registered and authorized exporter of these amazing coffee and cocoa beans.

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The PERFECT Investment Vehicle

Socotra Bio Inc. is much more than an import/export company, manufacturer, and sourcing and supply chain expert. It is also literally the PERFECT investment vehicle for investors looking to maximize their returns in the short, medium and long term, by either financing cash commodities and/or equipment against orders, or by directly investing in Mocha Monks Express food trains.

EQUIPMENT FINANCING

Socotra Bio Inc. purchases all kinds of machinery and equipment for its clients. Since we deal directly with our equipment manufacturers, we require our customers to make a 40% deposit on all orders, with the balance due at time of shipment. However not all of our clients are able to fund the deposit or the payment of balance owing on large equipment orders, and this creates a unique financing opportunity for interested investors.

Socotra Bio Inc. is able to leverage a win-win relationship with qualifying clients, wherein we will purchase equipment using investors’ funds, and arrange a short-, medium- or long-term financing arrangement with those clients who qualify for it, with all monthly payments made shared with the investors for the duration of the financing arrangement, again realizing a steady and lucrative ROI well in excess of anything a commercial bank can offer. In some instances, Socotra Bio Inc. may even opt to match qualifying clients directly with interested investors, and once the equipment purchase- and-supply contract has been completed, Socotra Bio Inc. will take its profit, step aside, and have the investor and client continue their financing relationship directly between themselves.

MOCHA MONKS EXPRESS FOOD TRAIN

Perhaps the most exciting medium- to long-term investment vehicle that Socotra Bio Inc. can offer interested investors is its trademarked and patented MOCHA MONKS EXPRESS food train. Each train is a self-contained 30-meters (100 foot) long take-out and drive-through gourmet food preparation entity, capable of operating year-round in all weather conditions, either on-grid or off- grid depending on location. Featuring the majority of the same menu items available in the full- service MOCHA MONKS restaurant in Greely, Ontario, and provisioned and staffed by that facility (wholly owned and operated by Socotra Bio Inc.), each food train is capable of easily generating between $5,000 – $15,000 per day in sales (depending on location and season).