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Since 8 March 1958
Coffee, conversation & a cooperative of workers.
The Thrissur society of Indian Coffee House has served Kerala for more than six decades, and it's owned by the people who serve you.
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Who we are
Built by the workers who were let go
In the mid-1950s the Coffee Board shut its coffee houses and dismissed the staff. Led by A.K. Gopalan, the workers formed their own co-operatives. The Thrissur society was registered on 10 February 1958, and its first coffee house opened on 8 March 1958. It was the fourth in the country.
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Our founder
A.K. Gopalan (1904–1977)
AKG was one of 16 Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952. He organised the dismissed Coffee Board employees to set up the Indian Coffee Houses in the late 1950s, and he inaugurated the Thrissur coffee house himself.
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