Discover the extraordinary pleasure of Illy, the celebrated Italian espresso coffee served in the finest restaurants and caffees and enjoyed by coffee connoisseurs worldwide. Prized for its full, rich body and smooth, balanced flavor, Illy's blend is 100% sustainably grown Arabica coffee, meticulously selected, decaffeinated by the Swiss water process and freshness-packed to seal in its precious flavors and aromas

Philosophy

Illy Caffe aims to delight people all over the world who value the quality of life by offering the best possible coffee nature can provide, enhancing its perfection through the most innovative technologies, and inspiring emotional and intellectual involvement by seeking beauty in everything.

History

When Francesco Illy first arrived in Trieste as a Hungarian serviceman during World War I, he thought it is the ideal place to start a coffee business: a multilingual border city offering a port with warehouses, insurance companies and skilled machinery constructors, a city teeming with historical caffees - the intersection of society and culture, a perfect place to transform a raw material from far-off lands into a product which then travels the world.

In 1933, Francesco Illy founded his company of coffee production and sales in Trieste. As a result, Trieste is become the only city in the world housing the complete coffee production process and is internationally recognized as the locus of the most important coffee research and test laboratories.

Since its founding, Illy caffe has remained a family run company with Ernesto, Francesco's son, who was President for 42 years and his son, Andrea, who is the current Chairman and CEO. Andrea has guided the company towards internationalization, process innovations, the endless pursuit of quality and spreading the culture of coffee.

True Italian Quality