What HasBeans does

HasBeans is a Canada-domiciled coffee roaster and retailer headquartered in London, Ontario. The company presents as a small-scale coffee business founded in 1969, operating with a team of 1-10 employees. Its primary public digital asset is its website at hasbeans.ca. Beyond this brief description, public source material on HasBeans is extremely limited: no product catalog, distribution footprint, customer segments, management team, ownership, or financial disclosures are documented.

The company operates in the specialty/independent coffee segment, where value creation typically derives from sourcing green coffee, roasting, and selling through a mix of wholesale (cafés, retailers) and direct-to-consumer (own store, e-commerce, subscription) channels. HasBeans' positioning within that segment — whether artisan/micro-lot, commercial wholesale, or hybrid — cannot be determined from the available data, and no roast profiles, origin sourcing practices, certifications, or product lines are disclosed.

Because the source dataset is dominated by placeholder/verification-page content and contains no primary company disclosures beyond firmographic headers, any investor-facing conclusions about unit economics, customer concentration, or growth direction must be treated as data gaps rather than inferred characteristics. The business model mechanics (pricing model, revenue mix, channel breakdown, customer segmentation) are not described and cannot be reliably reconstructed.

Name

HasBeans

Website

https://hasbeans.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HasBeans is a small, privately held Canadian coffee roaster and retailer headquartered in London, Ontario, operating with 1-10 employees since its founding in 1969 and serving a local market via its website at hasbeans.ca.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Coffee Roasting & Retail

NAICS

Coffee and Tea Manufacturing (311920)

SIC

Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090)

akta.pro primary industry

Coffee Roasting & Grinding (AFAFADAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Coffee Roasters with Cafe (Roastery Cafes) (THAFADAE)

Keywords

• Coffee roasting
• Coffee retail
• Specialty coffee
• Coffee beans
• Small batch coffee

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

HasBeans is a coffee roaster and retailer that roasts coffee beans and sells the finished coffee products directly to consumers through its own website at hasbeans.ca. The company operates as a small-batch specialty coffee producer, handling both the roasting/manufacturing of the coffee and the retail sale to end customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Roasted Coffee

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Second Cup: Canadian coffee cafe chain with company-owned and franchised locations across Canada; competes with HasBeans for the same Canadian specialty cafe customer in overlapping retail markets.
• Balzac's Coffee Roasters: Canadian specialty coffee roaster and cafe chain with multiple Ontario retail locations; directly comparable as a regional roaster-retailer serving similar customers with in-house roasted coffee.
• Bridgehead Coffee Roastery: Ottawa-based Canadian specialty coffee roaster with its own retail cafes; closely comparable in being a Canadian regional roaster-retailer operating company-owned stores serving premium coffee.
• Kicking Horse Coffee: Canadian specialty coffee roaster with strong wholesale and retail brand presence; comparable as a Canadian roaster competing in the same specialty segment, though at materially larger scale.
• Reunion Coffee Roasters: Independent Canadian specialty roaster operating its own cafe; directly comparable small-scale roaster-retailer model focused on quality and local customer base.
• Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op: Nova Scotia-based Canadian fair-trade specialty coffee roaster with retail cafes; directly comparable as a values-driven Canadian roaster-retailer serving similar customers.

Broad incumbents

• Tim Hortons: Dominant Canadian coffee and cafe chain; competes with HasBeans in the same London, Ontario market and shapes consumer coffee expectations, but at vastly larger scale and a mass-market positioning.
• Lavazza: Major Italian coffee roaster with global retail and foodservice presence; comparable as a roaster competing for the same end customer through retail and wholesale channels, but at global scale.
• Starbucks: Global coffee chain with broad Canadian presence; competes with HasBeans for the same London-area specialty-leaning customers while operating at a fundamentally different scale.

Emerging players

• Equator Coffees: Specialty roaster and cafe operator focused on quality and sustainability; comparable craft-roaster-retailer model with overlapping customer values and go-to-market approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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