Keurig Green Mountain to be Acquired by JAB Holding Company

Dec 2015 – News from the North American coffee market. According to BBC Business, the German investment firm JAB Holding will acquire Keurig Green Mountain, specialised in K-cups single-serve coffee pods, becoming the biggest player in the North American single-serve coffee pod market.

JAB has invested heavily in the US coffee market: it bought Caribou Coffee Co and Peet’s Coffee & Tea in 2012 and formed a joint venture between coffee makers DE Master Blenders and Mondelez International in July 2015.