PT’s Coffee Roasters from Topeka, Kansas, has acquired Bird Rock Coffee Roasters of San Diego. The merger will allow PT’s to take a primary leadership role and financial stake in Bird Rock Coffee Roasters,” according to the press release.
PT’s and Bird Rock are both famous in the industry, each winning Roast Magazine’s Roaster of the Year (Macro Roaster in 2009 and Micro Roaster in 2012). Financial backing from PT’s will “further develop the retail and wholesale efforts of the Bird Rock Coffee Roasters brand” outside San Diego.
The merger is based in similar direct trade philosophies. “That’s what makes this the perfect fit,” PT’s CEO and co-founder Jeff Taylor states. “PT’s was one of the pioneers of the Direct Trade model of purchasing and Bird Rock successfully built itself around the same principles.”
