Coffee Planet accelerates global expansion with new international roastery
Coffee Planet is adding a new international roastery to support more than 1,000 wholesale clients and 21 million monthly cups across the GCC.
Coffee Planet moved to expand its roasting backbone again, planning a new international roastery that could give the Dubai-based chain tighter control over supply as it serves more than 1,000 wholesale clients across the Middle East from its 26,000-square-foot facility.
The move matters because Coffee Planet is no longer behaving like a single-market roaster. The company said it serves more than 21 million cups of coffee every month across the GCC, and the latest expansion push stretches its ambitions into the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the wider Gulf, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Pakistan, Seychelles and Singapore. For a business that started in the UAE in 2005 by supplying coffee through petrol station convenience stores, the new roastery signals a shift from local distribution to infrastructure built for scale.
That scale has been building for years. Coffee Planet opened its Dubai roastery in 2008 to meet growing demand, expanded that site in 2019, and said in 2023 that it had significantly invested in wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels. The same year, it unveiled a new brand identity to support international expansion and appointed Matthew Yorke Smith as chief operating officer in November 2023, while Rob Saunders took over as chief financial officer. By October 2024, Dash Hospitality Group had opened Coffee Planet’s tenth UAE location at Dubai Gold and Diamond Park, adding another sign of how the brand has widened its footprint at home.
The financial picture behind the expansion is just as telling. A company summary cited in industry coverage said Coffee Planet recorded 19% revenue growth in 2025 and posted a 10.7% compound annual growth rate over the past decade. That combination of volume growth, revenue growth and a wider market map suggests the new roastery is not just about adding capacity. It is about protecting quality, shortening supply lines and reducing dependence on imported roasting capacity as demand rises across the GCC.
Coffee Planet’s trajectory also reflects how Gulf coffee operators are maturing. Founded in the UAE, it now supplies leading five-star hotels, airlines, offices and restaurants internationally, and it entered the UK market in 2018 with a store in Cardiff City Centre. A second international roasting platform would give the brand more room to turn a regional wholesale business into a multi-market operation, with the GCC still at the center of its growth plan.
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