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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Retail Coffee |
Founded | 1908 |
Headquarters | Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
Products | Coffees, coffee filters, small appliance (coffee makers etc.) |
Revenue | 1.325 billion € (2014) |
Number of employees | 3,736 (2014) |
Website | www.melitta-group.com |
Melitta (/məˈliːtə/) is a German company selling coffee, paper coffee filters, and coffee makers, part of the Melitta Group, which has branches in other countries. The company is headquartered in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia.[1][2]
It is named after Melitta Bentz (1873–1950) who founded the company after she invented the drip brew paper coffee filter (German patent granted 8 July 1908). Bentz later ran the company as a family business.[3]