A verified guide to 14 UK white label and private label coffee roasters, covering MOQs, certifications, packaging formats, and which supplier fits which business.
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White label coffee is coffee sourced, roasted, and packed by a specialist roaster and sold by you under your own brand name. The term covers three distinct arrangements: white label, where you rebrand an existing coffee from the roaster's standard range; private label, where the roaster develops a bespoke blend exclusively for your brand through consultation and cupping; and contract or toll roasting, where you supply or specify the green beans and pay a per-kilo fee for roasting capacity alone.
The distinction matters commercially. White label is the fastest and cheapest route, typically with the shortest lead times and lowest minimums, but the same blend may be sold to other buyers. Private label creates a coffee that is genuinely yours, at higher cost and a longer setup period. Contract roasting suits brands that have outgrown their own equipment or want full control over origin and recipe without owning a roastery.
The 14 companies below range from the UK's largest dedicated private-label operation, handling grocery multiples and retail chains, to small-batch specialty roasters offering dropship fulfilment for a single DTC brand. Before reading individual profiles, identify your volume (kg per month), your packaging format (wholesale sack, retail pouch, capsule), whether you need certifications like Fairtrade or Organic, and whether you want an existing recipe or something developed from scratch. Those four variables will narrow the field quickly.
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Lincoln & York, based near Brigg in North Lincolnshire, is the UK's largest dedicated private-label specialist, with a stated turnover of around 50m and output of roughly 9,000 to 10,000 tonnes per year across 15 markets. Founded in 1994, it offers full-service private label and contract roasting across approximately 15 packing lines, producing around 2,500 SKUs from 600 blends in bags, pouches, sachets, and retail formats. Certifications include BRC (AA grade), Organic, Fairtrade, and Rainforest Alliance, and the roastery operates as carbon neutral. Best suited to retail chains, high-street brands, and large foodservice operators that need scale, compliance, and a wide range of packaging configurations.
Masteroast, headquartered in Peterborough and roasting since 1981, operates as a pure private-label and contract roasting manufacturer with no competing own brand. It serves 600-plus customers at volumes ranging from a couple of boxes to container loads, and packs into beans, ground, bags, pouches, sachets, tins, vacuum packs, coffee bags, and capsules. Certifications include BRC, Soil Association Organic, Fairtrade, and Rainforest Alliance coffees. Annual output is approximately 4,000 tonnes. Best suited to established brands and retailers that want a dedicated manufacturing partner without any channel conflict.
UCC Coffee UK & Ireland, based in Dartford, Kent, and part of Japan's UCC group, positions itself as a total coffee solution covering private-label roasting, equipment supply, national service, and training. The Dartford facility received a 2.5m investment and carries capacity of approximately 12,000 tonnes per year. Clients include grocery multiples such as Tesco and Waitrose, as well as large hotel groups and contract caterers. Best suited to organisations that need a single partner to handle everything from bean to installed machine at volume.
Coffee Direct, a family-run business with more than 30 years of trading, offers white-label finished product with a consultation-led approach and genuinely low entry points. An example MOQ is blank-label bags sold in boxes of 12 x 908g, with volume discounts and free UK delivery to a single address. Formats include bags, pre-ground, sachets, and compatible pods. The model, where blank-labelled stock is delivered ready for the buyer to apply their own labels, makes this the simplest possible starting point. Best suited to new direct-to-consumer brands and small cafes that want a low-commitment first run before committing to custom-printed packaging.
White Label Coffee Company offers white-label under client brands alongside private-label specialty coffee, and runs its own Fusi Yama product line. Services extend to equipment supply, installation, training, and servicing, with a stated resolution rate of around 95% of machine issues via video call. Packaging formats include bags, sachets, and compatible pods. Best suited to venues where coffee is important but not the primary business, including gyms, golf clubs, offices, pubs, and restaurants that want a branded coffee alongside reliable equipment support from one supplier.
Chipp Coffee Co, roasting in Holbeck, Leeds, specialises in white and private label specialty coffee with in-house label design and print, plus full dropship fulfilment. For businesses trading for one year or more, there is no minimum order quantity; businesses under one year face a 250 minimum order value. All coffee is 100% specialty grade; packaging is recyclable and the operation is carbon neutral. Formats are 250g pouches and 1kg bags, with custom pouches available at supplier MOQ. Beans and ground only, no pods or capsules. Dropship means Chipp ships directly to your end customer. Best suited to new DTC brands, e-commerce sellers, and cafes wanting a house coffee with no stock holding.
Extract Coffee Roasters, based in Bristol, offers white-label and toll roasting of specialty coffee alongside optional packaging and creative support. The MOQ for bespoke roasts and white-label orders is 60kg. Certifications include Soil Association Organic and SALSA. Formats cover whole bean, ground, and single-serve coffee bags. The roastery uses Betty, a 1950s cast-iron roaster, as part of its production. Best suited to specialty-minded DTC brands and independent cafes that want a coffee with a traceable story and are comfortable with a meaningful minimum commitment.
Wogan Coffee, a Bristol-based family business roasting since 1970, handles white-label B2B across single origins, classic blends, and bespoke blends, with an in-house graphic designer to support label work. Notably, it produces Nespresso-compatible pods in-house, making it one of the few specialty-adjacent roasters to offer pods alongside bags from a single supplier. Best suited to independent cafes and B2B brands that want both branded whole bean or ground coffee and compatible pods without managing two separate supply relationships.
Adams + Russell Coffee Roasters, headquartered in Birkenhead and small-batch flame roasting since 1978, integrates white-labelling and bespoke blend development into a broader wholesale offer that includes barista training, equipment supply, and maintenance. It is a registered Fairtrade Foundation operator and roasts Rainforest Alliance certified coffees. Best suited to independent cafes and small hospitality businesses in the North West that want a local roasting partner able to handle equipment and training alongside a branded coffee.
Carrara Coffee Roasters, based in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, co-develops white-label signature blends at the roastery and offers customisable packaging alongside UK distribution, commercial equipment supply, barista training, and engineer servicing. The package is designed for operators that want a complete wholesale relationship with an own-brand coffee built in. Best suited to restaurants, hotels, independent cafes, and offices in the Midlands and beyond that want to consolidate equipment, training, and branded coffee supply with one roaster.
Capital Coffee Roasters, headquartered in London, offers white-label contract roasting primarily for distributors, alongside own-brand retail packs for coffee shops and delis. The business serves London and the South East. Best suited to London-based independent cafes, delis, and small distributors that want a local production partner without the complexity of a large national operation.
Limini Coffee, based in Bradford and West Yorkshire, provides white-label roasting and dropshipping for wholesale partners, pairing the coffee offer with a barista training school and machine sales. White-label bags and dropship fulfilment are both available. Best suited to new DTC brands and cafes in Yorkshire and nationally that want flexible white-label with dropship and the option to send staff through barista training at the same time.
Stokes Coffee, headquartered in Lincoln, is a long-established tea and coffee merchant that has extended into white-label and custom roasting. Several operational details are unverified at the time of writing, so direct contact is recommended before committing. Best suited to buyers in the East Midlands looking for a regional partner with a long trading history.
Horsham Coffee Roaster offers white label and custom blends with Soil Association Organic certification and single-serve bag formats. Best suited to specialty-focused buyers in the South East that need organic certification and want single-serve coffee bags as part of the range.
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Use this checklist before approaching any roaster:
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White label means you apply your brand to an existing coffee from the roaster's standard range, the same recipe may be sold to other buyers. Private label means the roaster develops a blend exclusively for your brand through consultation and cupping, so the recipe is yours alone. Private label costs more and takes longer to set up, but produces a genuinely differentiated product.
It varies considerably. Some roasters set no minimum for businesses trading over a year (Chipp Coffee Co); others set a value threshold such as 250 for newer businesses. Bespoke or toll-roasted batches typically start around 60kg (Extract Coffee Roasters). Large private-label houses reserve custom single origins for buyers at 4,000kg or more per year. Start with your actual monthly volume and filter roasters accordingly.
White-label coffee runs roughly 8 to 20 per kg at the roasted bean or ground stage. A finished retail bag typically adds cost, putting the range at around 11 to 22 per kg or more depending on format. Specialty grade (SCA 80 plus) starts around 12 per kg; Fairtrade or Organic certification adds approximately 20 to 30% to the base price.
Yes, but not all roasters offer capsule formats. Masteroast packs capsules as part of its manufacturing range. Wogan Coffee produces Nespresso-compatible pods in-house. Coffee Direct and White Label Coffee Company both list compatible pods. Many specialty-focused roasters, including Chipp Coffee Co and Extract Coffee Roasters, supply beans and ground only, so if pods are essential, filter your shortlist early.
For a standard white-label order using an existing blend with a simple label applied in-house or by you, one to two weeks is typical. Reorders on established recipes run around three weeks. Custom-printed packaging on a new design, including print production, usually takes up to six weeks on the first run. If you have a launch date, work backwards from that and add a buffer for sampling and approval.
Some do. Chipp Coffee Co offers full dropship fulfilment, shipping directly to your end customer, with no minimum for established businesses. Limini Coffee also offers dropship alongside white-label bags. Dropship removes the need to hold stock and suits e-commerce brands that want to test a coffee range without a warehouse commitment. Confirm pick, pack, and shipping costs with each roaster before assuming dropship is included.
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To go further, the wholesale roaster directory lets you filter UK roasters by country of origin, certification, and service type, including white label. If you want to source green coffee directly rather than buy finished product, /green-coffee lists importers and traders. And if you want to understand what drives bean pricing, /coffee-price tracks the arabica C benchmark, the commodity reference point that underpins most roaster cost conversations.
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