01 / SELECT
Select
Choose a proven coffee and get to market quickly under your own brand.
Coffee development & manufacturing / London
Coffee, built around your brand.
We develop, roast and pack coffee for ambitious hospitality, retail and consumer brands.
Private label / Contract roasting / Product development / Packing
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ProjectHouse Espresso
FormatWholebean / 1KG
ProfileMilk / Sweet / Structured
StatusApproved for production
01 / Capabilities
We make coffee for other brands.
From an existing blend with your identity to a completely bespoke product, we build around your flavour, format, volume and commercial requirements.
02 / DEVELOP
Develop
Create a proprietary blend, profile or sourcing specification around a commercial brief.
03 / PRODUCE
Produce
Repeatable roasting against an agreed specification, with production QC built in.
04 / PACK
Pack
Retail, foodservice and bulk formats, with custom packaging where volumes justify it.
05 / SCALE
Scale
Forecasting, sourcing, production planning and new products as your volumes grow.
02 / Process
From first brief to full production.
A practical development process designed to turn a product idea into a repeatable specification.
01 / BRIEF
Brief
Flavour, channel, equipment, target cost, format, volume and launch date.
02 / BUILD
Build
Coffee selection, blend architecture, roast profiles and packaging route.
03 / TEST
Test
Samples, brewing, feedback, iteration and specification sign-off.
04 / PRODUCE
Produce
Roasting, QC, packing, traceability and dispatch.
05 / SCALE
Scale
Forecasting, sourcing continuity, optimisation and additional SKUs.
The principle
The best private-label product shouldn't feel private label.
03 / What we build
Built for the product. Not the pitch deck.
An excellent commercial coffee has to work in the real world: for the end customer, the equipment, the target cost and the volumes you actually expect to sell.
PRODUCT
Bespoke coffee development
Blend design, origin selection, roast profiling and sensory development around a defined brief.
MANUFACTURING
Contract roasting
Move an established product into repeatable production, or scale a new one once the specification is approved.
PACKAGING
Own-brand packing
Support from rapid-launch labelled formats through to bespoke printed packaging and production planning.
QUALITY
Specification-led QC
Production is judged against what was agreed, not whichever roast happens to taste interesting that morning.
04 / About
Built by coffee people.
FORMWORK was created by the team behind Formative Coffee to solve a different problem. Formative is our coffee brand. FORMWORK is where we build coffee for yours.
We combine specialist coffee sourcing, development and roasting expertise with the production discipline needed to make products consistently and at scale.
FORMWORK / PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES
Product before theatre.The coffee has to work commercially, not just impress on a cupping table.
Specification before improvisation.Once approved, consistency is part of quality.
Built around the customer.Your product should look and feel like your brand, not ours.
Built to grow.Volume, sourcing and packaging are designed with the next stage in mind.
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