---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-039350"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JVA"
cik: "0001007019"
company_name: "COFFEE HOLDING CO INC"
filed_at: "2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T21:49:23.264274+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coffee Holding receives Nasdaq bid-price deficiency notice; outlines merger progress and 2024 outlook

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq notice on Oct 30, 2023 for failing $1 minimum bid price; 180 days to regain compliance by April 29, 2024.
- CEO expects 18–25% revenue growth in 2024 driven by new large national and regional grocery chains along with improved Café Caribe sales.
- Merger with Delta Corp Holdings (revenues >$620M, 400+ employees) on track; proxy mailing by year-end, special meeting Q1 2024.
- Challenges include costly divestiture of Generations/Steep division, elevated freight costs, and higher borrowing costs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-039350
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JVA
- cik: 0001007019
- company_name: COFFEE HOLDING CO INC
- filed_at: 2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1007019/000149315223039350/0001493152-23-039350-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1007019/000149315223039350/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  COFFEE HOLDING CO INC received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding minimum bid price (rules 5550(a)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: minimum bid price
  - Rules: 5550(a)(2)
  source text: October 30, 2023, Coffee Holding Co., Inc. (the “Company”) received a written notice (the “Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Company is not in compliance with the $1.00 Minimum Bid Price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Bid Price Requirement”). The Notice does not result in the immediate delisting of the Company’s common stock from The Nasdaq Capital Market. The Bid Price requirement requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid pric
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1007019/000149315223039350/0001493152-23-039350-index.htm

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