Westrock Coffee sets up hub in N.C.

Little Rock-based Westrock Coffee is establishing a Financial Shared Services Center in North Carolina to support all of the company’s operations in the United States, the company said Tuesday.

The new center will be at the S&D Coffee & Tea facility in Concord, N.C., and will include hiring 40 workers in the accounting fields, Westrock Coffee said in a release. Plans are to add more jobs to match the company’s expected expansion.

“A centralized account team in the heart of our coffee, tea, extracts, and ingredients manufacturing operations will drive the scalability and efficiencies necessary to support Westrock’s future growth,” Chris Pledger, Westrock Coffee’s chief financial officer, said in a statement.

Westrock Coffee is an integrated coffee, tea and extract company serving retailers, restaurants, convenience stores, commercial accounts and the hospitality industry.

S&D Coffee & Tea was acquired by Westrock Coffee in February of 2020 in a deal valued at $405 million. The combined company employs about 1,200 workers across the world.