Our Story

2000 years in the making, give or take.

The date is 2010, marking a new notch on Fleet Street’s long history. A place known for its Roman road connecting Westminster and Temple, fast forward to the 1500s where the location became a hub for London’s news editorial Press.
 This is where we saw our first incarnation ‘Get Coffee’ opened by our founder Andy after years  as a chef and disillusioned Starbucks manager.

After a little time learning the ropes and making mistakes, The Fleet Street Press was born providing a platform to expand to 7 sites across Central London as Press Coffee and birthing our iconic Tamp /press logo.

        

Roasting naturally followed with a fresh philosophy of bringing a signature espresso Blend that always balanced the line of boldness and flavour.

With Andy and Nelly now being the sole owners. 2019 was to bring Press’s new story line, our very own roastery starting up in Herne Hill, south London.

2025 saw us leaving our shops behind and passing control to new ownership, including our beloved Fleet street, enabling us to pivot and become the specialty coffee roastery we always wanted to be!

What we are today

A roastery, 15 humans, 2 kids and 1 dog.

With Jack at the helm in the roastery, we source, roast and supply our brand for discerning wholesale customers and home enthusiasts alike!

 Along for our own, we also roast for some of the biggest and highest quality brands in the UK. We will never kiss and tell, but if you're a coffee fan, you have most certainly tasted our coffee, just in a different name 

Why do we do it?

It started as a living. Then it got personal.

For all of us in the roastery, it started as a living. Whether we were a bored corporate stooge, home enthusiast, passionate barista or simply starting out as a packer and falling in love with great coffee.

For a while we struggled with our identity, what should we be?  who should we sell to? how can we be liked?

We all loved speciality coffee but couldn’t abide the pretentiousness and exclusion it often creates, we were never part of ‘The Club’ so went about doing our own thing!
Creating one of the best espresso blends in the country and ever increasing our knowledge in roasting the best filter coffees we could offer!

Sustainability

Talking green, no not just the coffee kind.

Andy once said “let’s do it for us and the future and not just to tick a box!  Yes we use gas to roast but lets make some other changes to offset that!”

Packaging and delivery

The first thing we tackled was what we were sending coffee out in and how we were getting it there. For wholesale clients, that meant clean reusable coffee barrels delivered emissions-free in our electric van. In the past three years alone we’ve saved over 750,000 bags from going to waste. When bags are needed, we use fully compostable options or our newer yellow and black bags, Level 4 and 5 PCR plastics, with Level 5 being kerbside recyclable in any council that accepts them.
For wholesale customers, we also aim to be a genuinely useful single supplier, coffee, equipment, alternative products like matcha and drinking chocolate, and marketing materials including white labelling. Fewer suppliers, fewer deliveries, less admin. A simpler supply chain.

Let's address the elephant in the room

Shipping a product from the other side of the world sits awkwardly next to the word "sustainable." We know. But rather than pretend that contradiction doesn't exist, we've chosen to work with producers who are actively doing something about it, and let their work speak louder than a badge on a bag.

All of our coffee we buy is 100% speciality arabica, whilst some may not be certified, Fair trade, rainforest alliance. We always buy from reputable importers and full traceability to the farms with prices exceeding any paid by certifications bodies.

The Reforest Project — Forest Coffee, Colombia

Forest Coffee are one of our producers in Colombia, Tolima, and one of the most progressive operations we've encountered anywhere in the industry. Their Reforest Project has a simple but serious objective: plant 5,000 native trees across the northern Tolima and southern Caldas regions before 2030, with 500 trees across 60 local producers already targeted for this year alone.
But it goes further than trees. Forest have built their own co-operative community, inviting local producers into their processing plant and rewarding them on quality over quantity, along with a graduation scheme that gives proper credit to the farmers hiking steep hills with sacks on their backs, year after year. We loved what they were building so much we sent our head of operations Jack over to Colombia to see it firsthand.
Read more about the Reforest Project  Or buy the coffee and the story goes with every bag The Reforest

London School of Horticulture, Rosendale Allotments

Roasting coffee produces two natural by-products: jute coffee sacks and chaff, the papery skin that peels off green beans as they roast. Rather than bin them, we've partnered with our local allotment to put both to work. The sacks become raised plant beds and the chaff goes in as fertiliser.

Community and charity

Whether we're supplying for Clink events, who do genuinely remarkable work giving young offenders a second chance through hospitality, (go and look them up https://theclinkcharity.org/the-charity) Or just showing up at our school PTA fairs with an espresso machine and a hamper for the raffle!

The people side

We've been a certified London Living Wage employer since we started, because the people who do this work should be paid properly for it. We don’t discriminate on age so if you are doing the same job, you get the same wage. 

Well Grounded

Well Grounded is a social enterprise connecting people from underrepresented communities with careers in coffee, fuelling social change through upskilling and providing access to sustainable careers. We have had many placements and graduates working with us over the years with both Andy and Jack mentoring classes.
And for the cherry on our very sustainable cake, we're currently working through our B Corp certification. Wish us luck!

Let’s get down to business

If you want great tasting coffee in your café, restaurant , shop, office or workplace:
David is your go to > wholesale@presscoffee.london
Looking for the full wholesale picture? > Wholesale page

Or if you want to embark on your own coffee brand and need coffee ghost roasted for you! Chris is your go to! operations@presscoffee.london

Work with Us

Join the crew- oh there’s free coffee!
We're a small team that takes what we do seriously, just not ourselves. If you're good at what you do and want to be part of something growing, we'd love to hear from you. No roles listed right now doesn't mean we're not interested. It just means we haven't found the right person yet. > info@presscoffee.london