Founded in 1971 at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Starbucks Coffee Company began by selling fresh-roasted whole bean coffee and grew into a global coffeehouse business. It roasts and serves coffee and offers food, packaged coffee and merchandise through its coffeehouses and other channels. Starbucks says its coffee sourcing spans more than 26 origins and its company-operated coffeehouses numbered more than 20,000 globally as of fiscal 2025.
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La Colombe Coffee WorkshopFounded in Philadelphia in 1994, La Colombe Coffee Workshop began with a café and micro-roaster and grew into a coffee roaster, brewer, and café operator. The company sources coffee from producers around the world and roasts and blends it in Philadelphia; it is also known for inventing its Draft Latte and producing ready-to-drink coffee beverages.PHILADELPHIA, PA
La Prima Espresso CompanyLa Prima Espresso Co. is a Pittsburgh coffee roaster and blender founded in the Strip District in 1988. The veteran-owned business grew from a commercial espresso equipment showroom into a roastery and a group of city caffès, roasting coffee to order for wholesale partners and online customers. It describes its work as honoring Italian coffee traditions while respecting employees, the environment, and coffee farmers.PITTSBURGH, PA
Chris' CoffeeFounded in 1975 by Chris Nachtrieb, Chris' Coffee is a family-owned coffee roaster and equipment supplier that began by repairing Bunn machines and selling coffee to local restaurants. The Nachtrieb family built the business into a worldwide e-commerce company and leading importer of Italian-made home espresso machines; its Latham facility includes a 120-kilo roaster and capacity to roast 2,300 pounds of coffee per hour.LATHAM, NY
Iron Star Roasting CompanyIron Star Roasting Company is the roastery and wholesale division of a Pittsburgh coffee business that began in 1993 as The Coffee Tree Roasters, a small coffee shop with an in-store roaster. The company continues to roast coffee using its original small-batch roaster alongside a Loring Smart Roaster and is operated by Jean Swoope. It identifies as a Certified Woman Owned Small Business and says it supplies single-farm-sourced coffees from around the world.WEST MIFFLIN, PA