Today’s Trinidad Benham is based on a tradition of entrepreneurial spirit. In 1978, the families that owned Trinidad Bean & Elevator Company (a bean sourcing and origination company in Denver, CO) and Benham & Company (a bean packaging company in Mineola, TX) formed a joint venture to diversify their businesses, which later led them to acquire a foil products packaging company. With joint expertise in commodity-based products, they merged their vertically integrated bean origination and packaging company with the foil business, and Trinidad Benham was born the following year. The history of Trinidad Benham dates back to 1917. We began as two family-owned companies with long histories in the bean business—Trinidad Bean & Elevator Company in Colorado and Benham & Company in Texas. In 1978, our two companies merged.