Delta Cafés nears €20 million upgrade to boost exports and capacity

Delta Cafés is close to finishing a seven-year, €20 million overhaul of its production hub, a project that could reshape how Portugal’s biggest roaster moves coffee from the factory floor to cafés and shelves abroad. The company says the investment is designed to lift roasting capacity, improve export readiness and support a push to become one of the world’s top 10 coffee brands.

That matters because Delta is not just a roaster. It also works as a distributor and café operator, so a larger, more efficient production base can ripple through the whole chain, from batching and packaging to delivery timing and retail availability. For buyers, the practical payoff should be more consistent supply and better room to scale the coffees that already dominate the domestic market. For the brand, it is a way to turn industrial capacity into international presence rather than simply adding machines.

The company says it has led Portugal’s roasted coffee market for more than two decades and is already present in more than 40 countries. That footprint helps explain why the upgrade has been framed as a long-term strategy rather than a quick fix. Delta’s wider network already reaches beyond Campo Maior through Novadelta Spain, which has operated since 1986 from Badajoz and now has 18 offices across Spain, as well as Delta Food Shanghai, founded in 2015 to coordinate commercial activity in China, Macau, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Novadelta Switzerland, launched in 2016, markets Nabeiro Group products across Swiss channels.

The scale of the ambition also matches the scale of the group behind it. Nabeiro Group says its vision is to rank among the world’s 10 largest coffee companies. It reported about 3,800 employees, €570 million in turnover in 2024 and then €650 million in revenue in 2025, numbers that underline how much industrial weight sits behind the upgrade.

The story runs back to 1961, when Rui Nabeiro started roasting 30 kilos of coffee a day in a 50-square-metre warehouse in Campo Maior. The group says it built the largest coffee roasting plant on the Iberian Peninsula in 1984, entered internationalisation in 1986 and has since grown from a local family business into a major exporter. Rui Nabeiro died in 2023, and the company is now led by Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro and Rui Miguel Nabeiro. The new production investment extends that line of growth, using factory capacity as the bridge from Portuguese market leader to global contender.