SLN Coffee has grown coffee in the hills of Coorg for decades. Now it is building its first factory outside Karnataka.
S.L.N. Coffee Private Limited, the company behind the Levista brand, will invest Rs 3,500 crore in a food processing unit in Andhra Pradesh. The plant could create about 3,400 jobs.
The company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday. State minister Nara Lokesh attended the signing at the 31st CII Partnership Summit in Visakhapatnam.
The deal is a big step for a family business that has spent most of its history in Kodagu, also known as Coorg. SLN runs coffee plantations and exports green coffee, meaning beans that have not yet been roasted. At its Kodagu factory it also makes instant and roasted coffee. Exports brought in about two-thirds of its sales in 2024-25, and its coffee is sold in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.
At home, SLN is best known for Levista. The brand was launched in 2017 and is now sold across South India, including in Andhra Pradesh, where the new plant will be built.
The Andhra Pradesh investment comes soon after SLN announced Project Horizon. Under this 10-year plan, the company will spend Rs 2,500 crore to expand its manufacturing, technology and exports. It is aiming for Rs 1,500 crore in revenue by 2027-28.
SLN said it had looked at sites in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka before choosing Andhra Pradesh. The decision gives the state a large food-processing project and thousands of possible jobs. It also takes a Coorg coffee company beyond its home state for the first time.