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1880
Start of the coffee roasting company

Karel Beyers Sr. acquires the De Schutter coffee roasting company located in the Antwerp Seefhoek district.

1928
Company name changes to Beyers

Karel Beyers Sr. lends his name to the company.

1937
Death of company founder Karel Beyers Sr.

His 4 young sons, Eduard, Edmond, Louis and Constant continue working and the firm is now called Gebroeders Beyers (Beyers Brothers) and co.

1957
Beyers becomes Beyers NV

From now on, the official name of the company is Beyers Koffie NV.

1964
Son Karel joins the firm

The brothers welcome Louis' son Karel into the business.

1966
First vacuum machine

Beyers Koffie was the first to install a vacuum packaging machine in Belgium. Following that, we were also the first to work with Italian machine suppliers.

1972
Takeover of Van IJsendyk

After the takeover of NV Van IJsendyk, a coffee roasting company, but primarily a green coffee importer, Beyers Coffee moved to the De Burburestraat in ‘Het Zuid’ district in Antwerp city centre.

1993
Café d’Anvers

To mark the occasion of Antwerp as Cultural Capital of Europe in 1993, Beyers introduced Café d’Anvers, a heavenly mild 'city coffee', using a blend recipe from 1903.

1994
New coffee roasting company in Puurs
Start of Kimbo in Belgium

On April 22nd, Flemish Minister-President Luc Van den Brande laid the first stone for the new modern coffee roasting plant in Puurs. It was a joint investment with Café do Brasil, company located in Naples and owned by the Rubino family. In November, there was a full takeover of Beyers Coffee. Nevertheless, Karel Beyers is still running the company.

2004
Takeover of Fort and E.P. Leidsche

Beyers has further reinforced its image with the takeover of the Fort coffee roasting company in the Belgian town Itegem and the sales office E.P. Leidsche, a firm in Ridderkerk in the Netherlands.

2020

Quality, service, tradition, cutting-edge technology and innovations continue to assure a sustainable expansion.