La Colombe

Chobani has announced a planned $567 million expansion of its La Colombe coffee production facility in West Michigan.

Sporting a booth designed to look like a Premier soccer stadium at the Natural Products Expo West trade show this week, the company showcased new innovations and packaging across La Colombe’s family of coffee products.

Nearly two years after its acquisition by Chobani, La Colombe is staying focused on scale and customer acquisition as it continues to carve out a space for its single-serve cold brew coffees in retail – with convenience firmly in its crosshairs.

The cold brew clash continues. Chobani, the parent company of La Colombe, on Monday filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss Danone’s suit alleging that it copied the “Bright & Yellow” trademark of Danone’s StōK Cold Brew for a competing product sold in the same […]

French dairy giant Danone is taking its U.S.-based rival Chobani to court over claims that the latter company’s La Colombe Coffee brand has been infringing upon its “Bright & Mellow” trademark, described as the latest attempt to “unfairly compete with Danone and copy Danone’s product packaging.”

The Los Angeles-based RTD coffee maker is bringing its three-SKU line of A2 dairy milk-based lattes — including a new matcha variety — into all 150-plus Wegmans stores this month, a move that founder Isabel Washington says brings the brand deeper into a channel where it can thrive.

Healthy growth from its revamped U.S. Refreshment Beverage division helped Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) offset sluggishness in its coffee segment, and deliver the company a 4.8% increase in net sales during Q1 2025, as detailed in a quarterly earnings report this morning.

We try La Colombe’s indulgent draft latte, prebiotic iced tea Halfday’s take on an Arnold Palmer, and Starbucks’ return to energy drinks (again).

In this week’s new products gallery, BRĒZ gives its flagship product an extra kick, Waterloo heads to Flavortown with Guy Fieri and La Colombe pays homage to a classic summertime treat.

KDP announced this morning that it is investing $300 million in Philadelphia-based coffee company La Colombe, making it the second largest investor in the brand with a 33% equity stake and strengthening its ambitions of moving deeper into the RTD coffee category.

As Dry January participants enter their final stretch, this week’s new products gallery features alcohol-free drinks from Simply and DRY Soda Co. which are rolling out nationwide. As well, classic CSD brands introduce new and revamped flavors, Rockstar Energy expands its better-for-you offerings and BodyArmor pays tribute to the troops.

Nearly a year after entering an exclusive 10-year distribution partnership with Philadelphia-based coffee roaster La Colombe, Molson Coors Beverage Company announced this week that it is taking the brand’s RTD coffee products nationwide in the conventional channel and big box accounts, including Kroger, Walmart, Target and HyVee alongside multiple West Coast regional grocers.

Steeped Coffee, a Certified B Corp, announced today the addition of La Colombe Coffee Roasters to its lineup of top brands available in its revolutionary single-serve Steeped Brewing Method. La Colombe, a pioneer of third wave and fourth-wave coffee, now offers its signature cafe blends in fully compostable Steeped Packs. The proprietary brewing method is […]

Philadelphia-based coffee roaster La Colombe has entered an exclusive partnership with Molson Coors Beverage Company to distribute the brand’s ready-to-drink coffee products in the drug and convenience channels starting in 2021, with plans to eventually transition distribution for all channels to the Molson Coors network over time.