Melitta

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Melitta Group

Company type	Private
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]