Slack first arrived at Blue Bottle in April of 2014 -- the company had acquired coffee delivery startup Tonx, including co-founder Nik Bauman, who now serves as Blue Bottle's director of digital products.
Blue Bottle to acquire Handsome Coffee and Tonx.
Last year, Benckiser acquired Caribou Coffee and Peet's Coffee & Tea in separate acquisitions for a combined $1.3 billion.
This year, Tata Tea bought a stake in the U.S. water manufacturer Glaceau for $677 million, and Tata Coffee acquired Eight O'Clock Coffee of the U.S. for $220 million.
In a surprise move, Oakland-based cult coffee roaster Blue Bottle Coffee is acquiring two Los Angeles coffee businesses -- Handsome Coffee Roasters in the downtown Arts District and Tonx, the fresh-roasted subscription coffee service.
Condiment competitor J.M. Smucker reported better than expected earnings on Wednesday, citing recently acquired Folgers coffee brand for almost half of its quarterly sales.
Along with the new cafe, Blue Bottle (which earlier this year acquired Handsome Coffee Roaster and Tonx) announced its Blue Bottle at Home subscription service, which features delivery of two-week supplies of coffee.
Only five months ago, the German conglomerate announced that it would acquire Peet's Coffee & Tea, one of America's oldest specialty coffee sellers, for about $974 million.
In August, Burger King announced plans to acquire the Canadian coffee and donut chain Tim Hortons for about $11 billion, moving the struggling fast-food company's headquarters from Miami to Toronto.
Years after this, a blond granddaughter acquires a coffee-colored sister, from Colombia.
