The Week in Coffee: 9-15 March 2026

Your weekly round-up of 5 essential coffee industry stories you won’t want to miss...

• Westrock Coffee is taking on the $40bn US RTD coffee market
• Cotti Coffee is ramping up European expansion
• Tim Hortons made a major announcement for the UK and Ireland market
• Dunkin’ could return to public markets five years after Roark Capital took it private
• Pickup Coffee looks like a strong investment opportunity in the booming Filipino branded coffee shop market

1. Three years and $360m later, is Westrock ready to conquer the US RTD coffee market?

Westrock Coffee has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to become the go-to producer of ready-to-drink coffee in the US. After successive years of heavy losses, 2026 will show if its big bet has paid off.

In November 2022, Westrock Coffee broke ground on a new 524,000sq ft production site in Conway, Arkansas – reportedly the largest roast to ready-to-drink (RTD) manufacturing facility in the world.

Investing in scaled RTD production early was undoubtedly a smart move. By some forecasts, the US RTD coffee market will be worth more than $40bn by 2030. But the sizeable investment has weighed heavily on Westrock’s balance sheet.