Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS

What Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS does

Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS (also operating as DBK) is a privately held Norwegian B2B workplace beverage service provider, headquartered in Valestrandsfossen in the Greater Bergen area, founded in 2008. The company sells and leases coffee, tea, water, and cocoa machines — both new and refurbished — to businesses in the Greater Bergen region, and provides end-to-end service including free on-site consultation, installation, ongoing maintenance, and replenishment of consumables under multi-year recurring contracts. The core product portfolio includes coffee machines (with an in-house restoration/refurbishment capability branded under the "Gruten" page), packaged coffee, tea, cocoa, and water, plus the Dyrka circular-economy product line that converts collected coffee grounds into nutrient-rich soil packaged with seeds for resale by sports clubs and volunteer organizations.

The go-to-market is sales-led and locally concentrated: enterprise field sales and an inside-sales contact-form motion route prospects to a tailored quote, with the CEO (Kenneth Mikalsen, Managing Director / Daglig leder) personally engaged on direct phone outreach. The company earns revenue through hardware sales and leasing of machines, layered with recurring service and refill contracts tied to the installed base, and a sustainability-differentiated value proposition built around refurbished equipment and circular use of coffee grounds. There is no software, app, API, or AI component disclosed; the offering is operationally physical and service-driven.

The company operates with a very small team (5 employees), serves only the Bergen / Greater Bergen market, has no disclosed funding rounds, no acquisitions, no subsidiaries, no parent company, and is not listed. Its principal strategic assets are a sustainability partnership ecosystem (BIR for waste collection, Eviny as flagship partner, Wastec for processing) and a brand positioning centered on circular economy within the Norwegian coffee market. Ownership, financials, and headcount trends are not disclosed.

Name

Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS

Legal name

Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS

Website

https://kaffeselskap.no

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS is a privately held Norwegian B2B workplace beverage service provider in the Greater Bergen area, selling and leasing new and refurbished coffee, tea, cocoa, and water machines to businesses under multi-year recurring service contracts, with a circular-economy coffee-ground recycling line (Dyrka).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workplace Beverage Services

NAICS

Coffee and Tea Manufacturing (311920)

SIC

Beverages (2080)

akta.pro primary industry

Coffee, Espresso & Tea Appliances Retail (CRACADAC)

Keywords

• Workplace coffee services
• Coffee machine leasing
• Beverage supply services
• Refurbished coffee machines
• Coffee grounds recycling

Headquarters

HQ city

Bergen

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Coffee Machine Sales and Leasing: The company sells and leases a broad selection of coffee, tea, water, and cocoa machines to businesses. Customers can purchase or lease equipment, with full installation and setup included. This is the primary revenue driver.
2. Ongoing Service and Refill Contracts: Recurring service agreements covering machine maintenance, problem-free daily operation, and replenishment of coffee, tea, cocoa, and water supplies. This creates a recurring revenue stream tied to the installed machine base.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS sells and leases a broad selection of coffee, tea, water, and cocoa machines to businesses in the Greater Bergen area, with full installation, ongoing maintenance, and supply replenishment included. The company also restores used coffee machines to like-new performance and operates a circular-economy product called "Dyrka," which converts collected coffee grounds into nutrient-rich soil packaged with seeds.

Product overview

Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap AS is a Norwegian business coffee service provider offering a unified portfolio of coffee machine solutions and beverage products for workplaces. The core offering consists of coffee machines (new and renovated), along with delivered coffee, tea, cocoa, and water. The company differentiates through sustainability-focused services including machine restoration and coffee grounds recycling into soil (Dyrka). Services are customized per customer with free site visits, installation, and leasing or purchase options available for machines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coffee Machines for Workplace (Sale and Lease)

Quantifiable outcome

• Coffee grounds are collected daily and converted into nutrient-rich soil (Dyrka) sold as a fundraising product by sports clubs and volunteer organizations.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• BIR (Bergensregionens Interkommunale Renovasjonsselskap)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDet Bergenske Kaffeselskap partners with BIR for daily collection and recycling of coffee grounds. BIR provides the waste collection infrastructure that enables the company to gather grounds from business customers and redirect them from landfill into the circular economy value chain, transforming them into the Dyrka soil product.
• EvinyflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerEviny, an energy company, collaborated with Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap and Wastec to develop the Dyrka product — soil made from recycled coffee grounds with embedded seeds. The company led the project as the driving force and hosted presentations at Eviny where the Dyrka pouches were distributed. This is the flagship sustainability initiative of the company.
• WasteccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWastec collaborated with Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap and Eviny on the coffee ground recycling project. Wastec contributed to the development of the solution that transforms coffee grounds into nutrient-rich soil, representing a core innovation partnership in the circular economy initiative.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Kaffebrenneriet: Norwegian specialty coffee roaster with retail cafés and wholesale supply — a regional Norwegian comparable on the coffee-bean and brand side rather than the workplace machine-service side.
• Solberg & Hansen: Long-established Norwegian coffee roaster serving both retail and B2B/horeca customers; comparable to DBK on the Norwegian coffee supply side but without the dedicated machine-leasing service model.
• Evergood Coffee: Norwegian workplace and food-service coffee provider supplying machines, beans and service to businesses across Norway; a regional B2B coffee services peer to DBK with broader geographic reach.

Emerging players

• Coffee Circle: Berlin-based specialty coffee company with a growing B2B office coffee offering alongside direct-to-consumer; an emerging European peer with sustainability positioning similar to DBK's circular-economy angle.

Direct peers

• Pelican Rouge: European office coffee service provider offering coffee machines, ingredients and maintenance to businesses — a direct B2B comparable to Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap's workplace coffee proposition.
• Selecta Group: Pan-European workplace coffee and vending services operator with a recurring service contract model analogous to Det Bergenske Kaffeselskap's machine lease + refill contracts, but at much greater scale across multiple countries.

Broad incumbents

• Nespresso Professional: B2B division of Nespresso delivering premium capsule coffee machines and bean-to-cup solutions to offices and hotels; competes in the same workplace segment with greater brand and capital resources.
• JDE Professional (Jacobs Douwe Egberts): Global beverage company with a dedicated office-coffee division offering machines, beans and service across Europe; competes broadly with DBK's workplace service but as part of a much larger portfolio.
• Lavazza Professional: Office coffee arm of the Lavazza Group, selling espresso machines and capsule systems to workplaces and HoReCa — overlapping with DBK's machine leasing and beverage supply model.
• Aramark Workplace Solutions: Global facility services provider whose workplace refreshment and coffee services overlap with DBK's offering, competing for the same enterprise beverage-services RFPs but as part of a far broader outsourced services portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/www-kaffeselskap-no

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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