Notes Coffee

Name

Notes Coffee

Legal name

Notes: Music and Coffee Limited

Website

https://notescoffee.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Speciality Coffee Retail and Wholesale

NAICS

Coffee and Tea Manufacturing (311920), Coffee and Tea Manufacturing (31192), Beverage Manufacturing (3121)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Coffee Roasters with Cafe (Roastery Cafes) (THAFADAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialty Coffee Shops (Single-Origin, Third-Wave) (THAFADAA), Specialty Coffee Adjacent Beverage Bars (Chai, Cacao, Alternative Lattes) (THAFAKAH)

Keywords

• Speciality coffee roasting
• Wholesale coffee supply
• Cafe bar operations
• Coffee subscription delivery
• Barista training services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices15 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Retail café sales: Revenue from sales of speciality coffee, food (seasonally-inspired all-day brunch and evening menu), craft beer, curated wines and signature cocktails across 12+ London café bars and a Reading site.
2. Wholesale coffee supply: B2B supply of speciality coffee to hospitality operators and contract caterers with dedicated account management; quote-based pricing tailored to customer needs.
3. Direct-to-consumer subscriptions: Recurring coffee subscription deliveries via notescoffee.shop — "the best way to guarantee a regular fresh delivery straight to your home or workplace".
4. E-commerce (online shop): One-off online sales of roasted coffee, brewing tools, equipment and merchandise via notescoffee.shop, including click & collect from the roastery.
5. Private hire and event bookings: Revenue from private hire of venues for groups from 5pm daily, plus off-site catering (breakfast, lunch and coffee barrow pop-ups).
6. Off-site catering services: Catering delivery throughout the City of London area of single-origin coffee, healthy breakfast pots, pastries and cakes (48 hours notice standard).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Notes Coffee roasts single-origin speciality Arabica coffee (minimum 84-point grading) in small batches at its East London Blackwall roastery and serves it through 12+ directly-operated café bars in London and Reading, alongside an online shop, recurring home/workplace subscriptions, wholesale supply to hospitality businesses, in-house barista training, equipment servicing, corporate catering and private venue hire. The integrated portfolio spans speciality coffee roasting, café bar hospitality, B2B wholesale, and ancillary services under one brand.

Product overview

Notes Coffee is a vertically integrated speciality coffee company operating a unified portfolio that spans coffee roasting, retail café bars, wholesale supply, and ancillary services. At the core is Notes Speciality Coffee — single-origin Arabica (minimum 84-point grading) sourced at origin since 2010 and small-batch roasted at the Blackwall Trading Estate roastery in East London. This core product underpins the consumer-facing layer, which comprises 12 Notes Café Bars across London, the Notes Online Shop (notescoffee.shop), the recurring Notes Subscription home-delivery service, the Notes Menus (All Day Brunch and Evening menus), and the Notes Private Hire & Events hospitality offering. The B2B arm, Notes Wholesale, extends the same core product to business customers and bundles in Notes Barista Training at the Blackwall roastery plus servicing support for La Marzocco and Nuova Simonelli espresso and brewing machinery. Two further supporting services — Notes Catering (City of London corporate deliveries) and the pop-up Notes Coffee Barrows — extend the brand's footprint beyond its permanent locations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Notes Speciality Coffee Single-origin speciality Arabica coffee (minimum 84-point grading) sourced from origin via producers practising sustainable farming, secured and curated by Co-Founder Fabio since 2010, and small-batch roasted at the Blackwall Trading Estate roastery in East London. Sold wholesale to hospitality operators, via the Notes online shop, and through home/workplace subscriptions.
• Notes Café Bars A collection of 12 coffee shops and bars across London (St Paul's, Canary Wharf Crossrail, Victoria, Bank, Gherkin, Kings Cross, Canary Wharf Canada Walk, Canary Wharf Jubilee, Moorgate, Trafalgar Square, Selfridges Foodhall, Moorgate Kiosk) plus a Reading site, serving Notes speciality coffee, craft beers, curated wines and classic cocktails alongside seasonally-inspired all-day brunch and evening menus, available to eat in or takeaway.
• Notes Online Shop E-commerce webshop at notescoffee.shop selling new roasts of Notes speciality coffee plus a small selection of tools and equipment to weigh, grind and filter coffee, with Click & Collect available from the Blackwall roastery.
• Notes Subscription Recurring fresh coffee delivery subscription providing regular fresh Notes speciality coffee to customers' homes or workplaces, ordered via the Notes Coffee webshop.
• Notes Wholesale B2B supply of high-grade single-origin Notes speciality coffee to hospitality operators and contract caterers (including Selfridges, WSH, CH&CO, Brera, Colicci and Well Grounded), with dedicated account management, quote-based pricing, barista training at the Blackwall roastery, and full servicing support for La Marzocco and Nuova Simonelli espresso and brewing machinery.
• Notes Barista Training Tailored barista training and coffee awareness courses delivered at the Blackwall roastery in East London, covering coffee knowledge and barista skills from basic through to advanced level for wholesale partners and other learners.
• Notes Catering Corporate catering service delivering single-origin Notes coffee, healthy breakfast pots, pastries and cakes to offices across the City of London area, with 48 hours' standard notice and expedited delivery available on request.
• Notes Coffee Barrows Mobile pop-up coffee barrow service that can be deployed at external venues to provide Notes speciality coffee and food services on demand.
• Notes Private Hire & Events Flexible private hire and group booking of Notes café bar venues every day from 5pm, supported by a dedicated events team for celebrations, corporate events, breakfast/lunch off-site catering and bespoke event requirements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Featured among the 23 Best Coffee Roasters UK 2026 (15+ years barista experience).
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered wholesale customer, wholesale partner, flagship wholesale + in-store location partner and strategic wholesale / parent-group partner.

• Brerawholesale customerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBrera appears as a Notes wholesale partner on the Notes Wholesale page. As a wholesale buyer of Notes coffee, Brera resells/serves Notes speciality coffee through its own hospitality operations.
• CH&COwholesale partnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCH&CO is listed as a Notes wholesale partner. The company is a major UK contract caterer; Notes supplies it with speciality coffee for its hospitality operations.
• Colicciwholesale partnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorColicci appears as a Notes wholesale partner logo on the wholesale page. Colicci operates cafés and hospitality venues which serve Notes coffee.
• Selfridgesflagship wholesale + in-store location partnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSelfridges is a wholesale partner (Notes coffee supplied to Selfridges) and also hosts a directly-operated Notes café bar within its Foodhall at 400 Oxford Street, London W1A 1AB.
• Well Groundedwholesale partnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWell Grounded appears as a Notes wholesale partner. Well Grounded operates in the UK speciality coffee sector and serves Notes coffee through its sites/training programmes.
• WSHstrategic wholesale / parent-group partnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWSH is listed as a Notes wholesale partner. The Notes data-protection contact email is [email protected], indicating WSH Limited is closely linked to Notes' governance. WSH is a hospitality services group that serves Notes coffee across its venues.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pact Coffee: UK specialty coffee roaster with a strong direct-to-consumer subscription and wholesale arm — directly comparable to Notes on the roastery-plus-D2C-plus-wholesale model, though with a digitally-led GTM.
• Square Mile Coffee Roasters: London-based specialty roaster with deep wholesale penetration into UK hospitality and barista training programmes, directly comparable to Notes' B2B and training proposition.
• Workshop Coffee: Specialty coffee roaster operating its own café bars in London alongside wholesale supply and barista training, mirroring Notes' vertically integrated model.
• Origin Coffee: UK specialty roaster with cafés, wholesale supply and a barista academy — overlapping with Notes on roastery, retail, training and B2B channels.
• WatchHouse: London-born specialty coffee operator with multiple premium café bars, in-house roasting, and a strong D2C subscription offering — competing for the same premium London real estate and consumer.
• Caravan Coffee: London-based specialty coffee roaster and all-day restaurant/café operator with multiple sites, comparable to Notes' café-bar-plus-roastery hybrid model.
• Monmouth Coffee: Iconic London specialty coffee roaster and café operator focused on single-origin coffee — a direct long-standing competitor in the London specialty segment.
• The Department of Coffee and Social Affairs: London specialty coffee micro-roaster and café operator offering single-origin coffee and barista training — comparable to Notes on roastery, retail and education.

Broad incumbents

• Gail's: Premium London bakery-café chain with a strong specialty coffee offering across many central London sites — competes with Notes for premium London café footfall and barista talent.
• Caffè Nero: UK specialty-focused coffee chain with deep London coverage including prime sites — sets the competitive backdrop for Notes' prime-location real estate and consumer pricing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NotesLondon
• Facebookfacebook.com/NotesCoffeeFoodWine
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/notescoffee

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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