Black Sheep Coffee, the fast-growing specialty coffee roaster and café operator, has lined up a sixth City site, MCA has learnt.
The group is set to open in East Cheap Street, which alongside forthcoming openings in Principal Place, Centre Point, Regent’s Place and the South Bank Tower, will bring its total number of sites in the capital to 13.
MCA understands the group is also opening in Manchester and Croydon.
Some of the new stores will have feature the group’s new “after work concept” with London brewed craft beers, and coffee inspired cocktails such as expresso martinis
and Irish coffee.
The group recently appointed David Ellison, formerly of Pret and Costa, as its new head of operations.
The company was founded in 2013 by four university friends, roasting its own coffee and distributing it online and wholesale to restaurants, coffee shops and hotels as
well as distributing espresso machines to serve as a onestop resource.
In 2014, the company raised £23,000 through a KickStarter campaign, which was then followed by a £500,000 private equity raise from investors including Gaucho financial and commercial director Frank Bandura.
