"100 Opportunities" for company anniversary

Minden, March 2008. In its centenary year, the Melitta Group has entered into a cooperation with the SOS-Kinderdorf organization. Under the motto "100 Opportunities", the company will be focusing its support on education programs at three Children's Villages in its most important countries: Germany, Brazil and the USA. Since its early days, the family-owned company has always believed that business and social responsibility belong together. Family support, orientation in society and the development of young people are all values which Melitta aims to support in an "Anniversary Project" in cooperation with the international charity SOS-Kinderdorf.

Read the over 100 year old company history of Melitta here.

An ingeniously simple idea

Melitta's history begins in 1908 in Dresden with the invention of the coffee filter. Melitta Bentz had long been disturbed by the unpleasant coffee grounds in her cup, which clouded her pure coffee enjoyment.

How a Dresden housewife came to revolutionise coffee preparation

Since its discovery in the 13th century, coffee had moved countless inventors to dream up the ultimate method of its preparation. Numerous complicated devices were the result of their considerations - yet all were seriously flawed.