{"id":395875,"date":"2026-09-10T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395875\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:14:13","slug":"kahwa-coffee-marks-20-years-with-major-production-expansion-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395875\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahwa Coffee Marks 20 Years with Major Production Expansion in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inside the new Kahwa Coffee headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. Images courtesy of Kahwa Coffee.<\/p>\n

After 20 years of bringing specialty coffee to Florida and beyond, Kahwa Coffee<\/a> has entered a new era with a move into a 24,742-square-foot corporate and production headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n

The new facility in an industrial area of north-central St. Pete includes all of Kahwa\u2019s roasting, grinding and bagging operations, and adds more than 10,000 square feet of space over the company\u2019s previous headquarters, which it occupied for the past seven years.<\/p>\n

The roastery includes Kahwa\u2019s 60-kilogram Ambex<\/a> machine plus a range of other existing production equipment, while adding a new bagging machine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have pretty much doubled the capacity of bagging with that machine,\u201d Kahwa Coffee co-founder and co-owner Raphael Perrier recently told Daily Coffee News.<\/p>\n

Sourcing will also remain the same as it has been for the last two decades as Kahwa continues to work with New Jersey-based importer Royal New York<\/a>, focusing in part on small cooperatives in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and elsewhere in Central and South America for its blends.<\/p>\n

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The new training center at Kahwa.<\/p>\n

Kahwa\u2019s primary sales channels include wholesale accounts with restaurants, cafes and hotels, company retail, e-commerce and franchising. Five franchise locations have opened since Kahwa launched the program in 2022.<\/p>\n

Largo-based Pridgen Realty<\/a> represented Kahwa in the lease transaction, while real estate firm Colliers<\/a> represented landlord Legacy Capital Partners<\/a>, based in Denver. The former post office building is part of Petersburg Commerce Center, a three-building industrial and manufacturing park.<\/p>\n

Perrier said the process of finding the new location, arranging financing, moving equipment and renovating the space took about a year, yet the production roastery move required a quick pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took just three days to move everything, which was, as you can imagine, a challenge, because we had to keep going on the production side,\u201d said Perrier.<\/p>\n

Renovations included new flooring and paint, construction of a separation wall with windows between the production and office areas, installation of roll-up doors, propane infrastructure for roasting equipment, and the creation of a replica cafe that will be used for training and education.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Perrier and his wife, Sarah Perrier, founded Kahwa in 2006, and the company describes itself as the \u201clargest independent coffee roaster\u201d in Florida. Perrier said the company will soon grow even larger through new hires of office and production staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company currently lists 21 cafes<\/a> \u2014 20 across Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast and one in Fort Worth, Texas \u2014 and more than 800 wholesale customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comments? Questions? News to share? Contact DCN\u2019s editors here<\/a>. For all the latest coffee industry news, subscribe to the DCN newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daria Toptygina<\/a>
Daria Toptygina is a freelance writer, avid coffee lover and social media manager of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. <\/p>\n

Tags: Ambex<\/a>, chains<\/a>, Colliers<\/a>, Florida<\/a>, Fort Worth<\/a>, franchising<\/a>, kahwa Coffee<\/a>, Legacy Capital Partners<\/a>, Pridgen Realty<\/a>, Raphael Perrier<\/a>, Royal New York<\/a>, Sarah Perrier<\/a>, St. Petersburg<\/a>, Tampa<\/a><\/p>\n


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