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Company

Bunn-O-Matic Corporation ®

A History of Ingenuity, Innovation and Commitment

to the Best Result in the Cup

The heritage of Bunn-O-Matic Corporation began over 175 years ago when X, the first pourover commercial brewer,
Jacob Bunn opened a grocery store in downtown Springfield, Illinois, USA. A young was introduced.
lawyer named Abe Lincoln had a neighboring law office and became one of Jacob’s first It is a historical fact that the in-
customers. Several family generations later, that venture eventually grew into Bunn ception of Bunn-O-Matic came about as
Capitol Wholesale Grocery Company, coming under the management of George Bunn. a result of a desire to brew coffee better.
In the 1950’s, George Bunn founded the beverage equipment division, and in George Bunn experimented with differ-
1957 he invented the flat bottomed paper filter. In 1963, Bunn-O-Matic Corporation was ent materials for filtering the brewing
officially incorporated as a separate entity and it was also in that year that the Model process, to ensure the cleanest cup of
coffee possible. Paper worked best, and
is still the medium of choice for keeping
particulates separate from the cupped
coffee. Further, George found that by us-
ing a flat bottomed funnel and a flat bot-
tomed filter, the coffee grounds would
be more evenly distributed, and that the
use of “shower head” type of sprayhead
would ensure greater permeation of the
product, allowing for fuller extraction of
coffee for a smooth, not bitter, flavor.
Kurt Powell, Executive Vice Brian Wisniewski, Senior Vice Chee Wu Ho, Vice President Since that time, the company
President Worldwide Sales President and General Manager, of Sales and Marketing, Asia has come to be referred to simply as
International Division Pacific BUNN and has been at the forefront of
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