Melitta financial year 2025 

Melitta publishes its 2025 Annual Report under the Heading "About People and Passion"

19.10.2026

• The integrated annual report brings together financial and sustainability information for the first time
• In a joint interview, Katja Möller and Jero Bentz discuss their collaboration as the new leadership duo, as well as Melitta’s strategic focus for the future
• Annual turnover grew by 18 per cent to 2.53 billion euros

The Melitta Group has published its 2025 Annual Report. Entitled 'About People and Passion', the report presents a selection of key figures and insights into the company's performance alongside stories about its people, brands and products.  

Until now, the family-run business has published its annual and sustainability reports separately. For the first time, the 2025 Annual Report brings together selected financial and non-financial information in a single, integrated publication.

“This integrated annual report provides a comprehensive overview of the Melitta Group’s performance. It shows how our business has developed, the progress we have made on sustainability issues and the stories that have shaped our year. It also sets out our priorities for the future,” said Sina Dahlhues, the Melitta Group’s Head of Reporting, Sustainability and Digital Communication.

Strong revenue growth and progress in the area of sustainability
In 2025, the Melitta Group increased its turnover by 18 per cent year-on-year to 2.53 billion euros. The coffee businesses were the main drivers of this growth, recording significant increases in turnover in Europe, North America and South America.

The Group has also made progress in the area of sustainability. In 2025, the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) validated the Melitta Group’s climate targets. Compared with 2024, indirect emissions from purchased energy (Scope 2, market-based) fell by around 57 per cent. The volume of waste decreased by 12 per cent. Water consumption at paper production sites fell by around 19 per cent.

Other highlights of 2025 included Melitta Coffee entering the Polish market, Melitta South America acquiring a majority stake in the Brazilian company Baristo, and launching a partnership with Real Madrid. Melitta has been the exclusive coffee partner of the Spanish football club since the 2025/26 season.

Insights into the group of companies

In the interview "Doppio", Katja Möller and Jero Bentz, members of the company's management, give an insight into their cooperation as a new management duo and into Melitta's strategic focus on long-term development, international growth opportunities and value-driven leadership.

"Kaffee-Kosmos" shows how coffee from the Melitta coffee manufactory in Bremen is made – from the selection of the green coffee and the development of the specialty coffees to the artisanal roasting. Four coffee experts talk about their work and what makes the manufactory coffees special. Melitta is the first large-scale roaster to also offer manufactory coffees. crema magazine named Melitta "Roaster of the Year" in 2026.

"Circle of Life" tells the life cycle of a garbage bag – from waste separation and recycling to the new product of the Swirl® and handy bag® brands. The story also leads to Bangalore to the Fair Recycled Plastic initiative, which the Melitta Group founded together with Yunus Social Business Fund GmbH. There, plastic waste collected by waste pickers is processed and returned to the value creation process.

"Everyday Heroes" accompanies a fictitious family through their day and shows how products from the three business areas of coffee, coffee preparation and household products support them in everyday life.

The annual report is available as a PDF as well as an interactive online report.

About Melitta

Melitta is an internationally active group of companies and has been one of the well-known independent family businesses not only in Germany since the invention of the coffee filter by founder Melitta Bentz in 1908. With around 5,500 employees, activities in over 80 countries worldwide and an annual turnover of 2.5 billion euros (2025), the group develops, produces and sells branded products for coffee enjoyment, for the storage and preparation of food as well as for cleanliness in the home.