Coffee & Tea Industry Competitors

Reily Foods (formerly called Wm. B. Reily & Co., Inc. after its founder) hopes that you'll slap gobs of mayo on your po'boy and wash it down with a gigantic tumbler of tea. The company makes Luzianne tea, as well as regionally revered Blue Plate mayo. In addition, the company makes a host of other products, including Swans Down cake flour, JFG coffee, and Wick Fowler's 2-Alarm Chili....

If it's an organic coffee break, Allegro Coffee Company is pouring. A subsidiary of the world's #1 natural foods chain Whole Foods Market, Allegro Coffee roasts and distributes its specialty coffees to its parent company's retail food stores, as well as to select restaurants and resorts....

America's Cup Coffee manufactures and distributes cappuccino and coffee products to convenience stores and other wholesale customers across the US, but it does business primarily with the US government. The company, which is privately owned by Bob Barrett, has contracts with the US Army and Air Force....

Brisk Coffee manufactures and distributes coffee under the Brisk, RCR, Café Perez, and Innkeeper's Choice brand names. The Florida-based company, which operates a roasting plant, distribution center, and business office, became the state's largest independently owned coffee roaster with the acquisition of Rowland Coffee's American Coffee Division in 1996....

Founded in 1982, Bucks County Coffee Co. sells micro-roasted specialty coffees. The company operates more than 40 fresh coffee-service locations, which are located inside of grocery stores, train stations, hospitals, farmers markets, and college campuses in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC....

You could have yourself quite a party with Celestial Seasonings' tea stash. The company makes more than 90 different quaffs with such fanciful names as Cranberry Cove, Friend's Forever, Mama Bear's Cold Care, and Morning Thunder, along with its original and most well-known tea Sleepytime....

Coffee Bean International (CBI) brews up specialty coffees, teas, drink mixes, and cocoa for thousands of small, independent US coffeehouses under brand names such as Panache, Xanadu, and private labels. CBI coffee is hand roasted in small batches, The company gets its green (raw) coffee beans from farmers around the globe who grow their beans organically, and use sustainable agricultural methods, selling their crops through cooperatives that support fair-trade prices....

Sand Diego-based Elan Organic Coffee imports organic coffee from small village co-ops located in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, as well as Central and South America. The company was started in 1989 by its presdient, Karen Cebreros, who, after a trip to Peru, became interested in passing along organic, shade-grown methods to small coffee bean farmers who were struggling to stay in business due to the overuse of pesticides....

Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 with the aim of paying fairer prices to Third World growers of coffee beans, helping kick off what has become known as the "fair trade" movement (a West Coast organization, Global Exchange, is two years younger and in the same business)....

F. Gaviña & Sons sells ground coffee in supermarkets, restaurants, coffee houses, and other retail outlets under the Gaviña, Cafe La Llave Espresso, and Don Francisco's Gourmet Coffee brands. Gaviña distributes an Arabica coffee blend through McDonald's restaurants in five counties in Southern California....

Fine Foods International (FFI) aims to serve a fine cup of coffee. Along with its sister company, Fine Foods International (Manufacturing), it supplies UK food retailers and the foodservice industry with coffee blends, ground and roast products, and other hot-beverage drinks....

Pull up a chair for a fireside chain. Fireside Coffee's instant beverages include regular, decaffeinated, and sugar-free coffee and chai tea, all of which are available in many gourmet flavors. Among the company's coffee flavors are chocolate-covered cherry, vanilla nut fudge, butter rum, and coconut cream....

The First Colony Coffee and Tea Company has roasted coffee since 1902. The company is owned by 96,000 Colombian coffee growers and supplies coffee from Colombia's Antioquia region.. The company has a number of hand-selected, hand-roasted, branded Arabica coffee flavors, including those it makes for Ghirardelli, Jack Daniel's, Southern Comfort , Tia Maria, Carolan's Irish Cream, and Frangelico....

Intelligentsia is pretty smart when it comes to brewed beverages. The importer, roaster, and wholesaler delivers 1.25 million pounds of roasted coffee beans each year to 700 customers including restaurants like fellow Chicagoan Charlie Trotter's and Keens Steakhouse (in New York) as well as coffee houses in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, and Vancouver....

Good ole green is running through the veins of ITO EN -- green tea, that is. Japan-based ITO EN produces, packages, and distributes a variety of teas, including Japanese green, oolong, and black, in several different forms (leaves, bags, bottles, and cans of prepared drink), as well as prepared and ground coffees and packaged fruit juices....

Javo puts the S-Q-U-E-E-Z-E on coffee. Javo Beverage Company makes and markets coffee and tea concentrates, drink mixes, iced and hot ready-to-drink beverages, and flavor and dispenser systems. Its national and international customers do business in the retail, food and beverage manufacturing and foodservice industries....

Philadelphia Cream Cheese may be named for a city in the US and we Yanks may "schmeer" it on our bagels -- but people eat it in the UK too, thanks to Kraft Foods UK. Along with the range of Philadelphia spreads, the Kraft subsidiary also sells Kenco and Tassimo coffee, Terry's Chocolate Orange candy, and Vegemite....

Miko has brewed up an interesting business strategy. The company provides coffee services through subsidiaries in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and the UK; coffee services make up more than 55% of sales. Products include roasted coffee, filters, and coffee dispensing systems....

Millstone Coffee is brewing up some organic growth. The company, a unit of consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G), is one of the largest gourmet coffee brands in the US. It specializes in making and marketing roasted coffees, as well as flavored, decaffeinated, and organic coffees....

Nestlé Nordic fills up bowls, cups, spoons, and ultimately, tummies all across northern Europe. The company is the business segment of Nestlé that coordinates the food giant's activities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Along with the international Nescafé, Nestea, KitKat, and Nesquik brands, Nestlé Nordic oversees popular regional brands of processed foods and beverages such as Jede, Maggi, Piltti, and Zoégas....