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February 4, 2026
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While domestic coffee brands are still in a leaderless situation, imported coffee beans still occupy the vast majority of the market. But faced with so many coffee brands, which one to choose has become a troubling matter for everyone. This article does not discuss coffee bean varieties, nor instant coffee, but only seeks to understand the most common excellent coffee beans and ground coffee brands in China.


1 . Front Street Coffee


Front Street Coffee is a veteran coffee bean roasting brand. The Front Street Coffee offline store in Guangzhou specializes in selling coffee beans. The store offers dozens of selected single-origin pour-over coffee beans and espresso coffee beans from different coffee-producing regions around the world. Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days, with stable and excellent quality, extremely cost-effective prices, and shipped within 24 hours.


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Whether you are a beginner, a coffee enthusiast who has already reached a professional advanced level, or a user opening a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice among many coffee lovers and platforms. Recommended for tasting are Front Street Huakui, Front Street Butterfly, Front Street Golden Mandheling, and Front Street Strawberry Candy.


2 . illyilly Coffee


illy Coffee Company was founded in Italy in 1933. It is a national treasure-level coffee brand in Italy and the earliest company to package and sell pre-ground coffee powder, while also selling roasted whole coffee beans.


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illy coffee is the first brand used in the food and beverage industry in Italy, with a 7.5% market share; in the household market, it accounts for 30.3%. Every day, 3 million cups of illy coffee are sold in Italy alone, and an astonishing more than 6 million cups are sold globally.


In addition to Italy, illy is also very deeply rooted in people's hearts in Asia. When many older-generation coffee people mention coffee, they think of the illy coffee brand. Chinese people's familiarity with illy can be said to be No.1 among these imported coffee brands.


3 . Starbucks Starbucks Coffee


Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in the United States in 1971. It is the most well-known chain coffee brand in the world and the company that promoted freshly ground coffee globally. For many Chinese people, their first cup of freshly ground coffee started with Starbucks.


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Starbucks focuses on providing consumers with freshly ground coffee, mainly selling espresso coffee categories and drip coffee categories. All use 100% roasted whole coffee beans, which are ground before preparation and extracted promptly, so that every cup of coffee retains more of the coffee's original flavor and aroma.


At the same time, Starbucks also sells roasted whole coffee beans and, when customers need it, provides grinding services to grind the coffee beans to a coarseness suitable for the customer's brewing.


3 . LAVAZZALavazza Coffee


Lavazza Coffee Company was founded in Italy in 1895. During the two world wars, Lavazza was still able to persist in offering coffee for sale. It can be said that during the wartime period, it stood out alone and dominated the Italian coffee market. This brand is also very deeply rooted in people's hearts in Italy.


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What truly brought Lavazza to the world was that in the early 1960s, the company first adopted vacuum packaging technology to preserve the freshness of ground coffee. This move not only rapidly expanded its original production line, but also led the company to develop a larger production line and continuously launch different flavors of coffee and other coffee preservation technologies, and export them around the world.


Due to strong preservation technology, coffee beans and coffee can retain their flavor for a longer time, so supermarkets in many regions have put them on shelves for saleLavazzaground coffee and coffee beans. Therefore, Chinese people are also very familiar with theLavazzabrand.


The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.

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