Popular Levista coffee brand, has announced plans to invest Rs 3,500 crore in a food processing facility in Andhra Pradesh.

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Kodagu-based SLN Coffee Private Limited, the company behind the popular Levista coffee brand, has announced plans to invest Rs 3,500 crore in a food processing facility in Andhra Pradesh. The project, expected to generate around 3,400 jobs, will mark the company’s first manufacturing unit outside Karnataka.

The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government at the 31st CII Partnership Summit in Visakhapatnam on November 12. SLN Coffee, rooted in Kodagu’s coffee plantations, produces instant and roasted coffee and exports to markets across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Its Levista brand, launched in 2017, has established a presence across South India.

The investment forms part of the company’s broader expansion ambitions, which include increasing manufacturing capacity, strengthening exports and targeting Rs 1,500 crore in revenue by 2027–28. The proposed facility represents a major milestone for the Kodagu-origin company as it expands its operations beyond Karnataka.

Levista is SLN Coffee Private Limited’s consumer-facing coffee brand, launched in 2017 to bring the company’s Coorg/Kodagu coffee business into Indian households. It positions itself as a premium, estate-to-cup brand and sells mainly instant and filter coffee. Brand positioning: Levista emphasises coffee sourced and processed through SLN’s integrated operations in Coorg, where SLN has cultivated, cured, and processed coffee since 1956.

The brand’s story centres on “estate-to-cup” quality, fresh roasting, and South Indian coffee heritage. It is positioned as a premium retail brand, but its core products—especially instant coffee and chicory-blended filter coffee—are aimed at everyday Indian coffee drinkers rather than a narrow speciality-coffee audience. Product range, distribution, and visibility: Levista is sold online across India and through general trade, modern retail, and institutional channels in South India.

Its retail presence has included Reliance Retail, More Supermarkets, SPAR, and Metro Cash & Carry. The brand gained notable visibility through its association with Chennai Super Kings as the team’s official licensed coffee partner during the 2020 IPL season, including limited-edition CSK packaging and combo packs. Why it matters to SLN Levista is SLN’s move beyond commodity coffee exports and business-to-business supply into branded consumer products.

SLN’s wider business still relies heavily on exports—about two-thirds of sales in FY2025—but Levista gives it a consumer brand across South India and a route into higher-value retail coffee.

In short: Levista is SLN Coffee’s Coorg-rooted, mass-premium coffee brand—best known for instant coffee and traditional South Indian filter blends, with a growing café presence.