Bunn on the 2025 Specialty Espresso Expo in Houston, Texas. Day by day Espresso Information picture by Nick Brown.

Ali Group has acquired longtime North American beverage gear maker Bunn (previously Bunn-O-Matic). The phrases of the acquisition weren’t disclosed. 

In response to Ali Group, Bunn will function inside the Welbilt portfolio of economic gear corporations as one of many group’s roughly 115 manufacturers. Within the espresso gear sector, Ali Group owns manufacturers together with Crem, Egro, Promac, Rancilio and Rancilio Specialty.

The acquisition provides Ali Group a extremely recognizable model within the North American business gear market, as Bunn machines may be readily discovered on counter tops in espresso outlets, eating places, workplace break rooms, comfort shops and different foodservice environments. 

The Bunn headquarters in Springfield, Illinois.

Bunn (styled as “BUNN” by the corporate) traces its beverage gear enterprise to the mid-Nineteen Fifties, when George R. Bunn started growing improved drip-brewing methods, together with the corporate’s flat-bottom paper filter and early Gravity Drip business brewer. The corporate, based mostly in Springfield, Illinois, was formally integrated in 1963 and remained privately held and family-owned via 5 generations.

“The acquisition of Bunn marks an essential step in strengthening Ali Group’s management within the world espresso and beverage gear sector and advancing our long-term development technique,” Filippo Berti, Ali Group chairman and CEO, stated within the announcement. “Bunn brings a robust heritage, a tradition of innovation and a extremely complementary portfolio that expands our world capabilities.”

Ali Group, which relies within the Chicago space with a European headquarters in Milan, acquired Italy’s Rancilio Group in 2013, together with the Rancilio conventional espresso gear model and Swiss Egro superautomatic machine specialist. Beneath Ali Group possession, Rancilio launched the Rancilio Specialty model and gear line in 2018. 

Ali Group describes itself as “the world’s largest group within the foodservice gear business” by gross sales.

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