CAFEA: All about variety

The CAFEA Group combines specialists who get the very best out of coffee and turn it into high-quality instant coffee and other hot drinks. Each subsidiary has its own specialist focus in distribution or manufacturing. The result is a wide selection of products which are distributed worldwide.

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The CAFEA Group is a strong network of international companies.

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The CAFEA Group delivers great flavour in all its forms. As well as instant coffee, our production plants produce liquid coffees, roast coffee, milky coffee drinks in capsules for the most common systems, and other hot drinks such as drinking chocolate and grain coffee. Baby formula and nutrition drinks and supplements complete our range.

All CAFEA Group companies embody the same three values: tradition, experience and high quality.

Our latest news

Come and visit us at PLMA, Amsterdam
20th - 21st May 2025, RAI Europa Complex Hall 1, Booth: 1.A31
Cafea GmbH exhibits for the entire group at the PLMA. www.plmainternational.com
Come and visit us at drinktec in Munich
15th - 19th September 2025, Hall C3, Booth No 262a
Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee GmbH is exhibiting at Drinktec on behalf of the Cafea Group. www.drinktec.com
Come and see us at ANUGA, Cologne
4th - 8th October 2025
Cafea GmbH is exhibiting at Anuga on behalf of the entire group. www.anuga.com
Come and visit us at Supply Side Global in Las Vegas
27th - 30th October 2025, Booth-No 929
Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee GmbH is exhibiting at Supply Side Global on behalf of the Cafea Group. https://www.supplysideglobal.com/en/home.html
Come and visit us at PLMA, Chicago
16. - 18. November 2025, North Hall, Booth No. F900
The Cafea Group exhibits at Fine Foods International (New York) at PLMA Chicago. www.plmainternational.com
Come and visit us at Food Ingredients Europe, Paris
02nd - 04th Decermber 2025, Hall 7.1, Booth No. B44
Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee GmbH is exhibiting at Food Ingredients Europe on behalf of the Cafea Group. https://www.figlobal.com/fieurope/en/home.html
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> 1,500
EMPLOYEES

Over 1,500 employees in total work for CAFEA Group companies. We have their commitment and loyalty to thank for our business success. That's why it’s very important to us that all of our employees enjoy the right working conditions to suit them.

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OUR STORY BEGINS

In 1896, Johann Dietrich Rothfos, owner of the ‘Im Grünen Tal’ garden café and general store in St. Magnus, near Bremen, started selling his green coffee beans for customers to roast at home themselves in a pan.

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PRODUCTION PLANTS

Our products are produced in seven of our own plants. Each plant uses state-of-the-art facilities and processes. When it comes down to it, quality is our top priority. We monitor this in every single step of the production process.

CAFEA 1896