Who makes Kirkland Signature House Blend Whole Bean Coffee, Medium Roast (2.5 lbs)?
No reliable public evidence identifies the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature House Blend Whole Bean Coffee, Medium Roast (2.5 lbs) as of October 5, 2026.
The common claim
What’s commonly claimed, and what the evidence supports
Top-ranking answers still say the House Blend is 'custom roasted by Starbucks' — true on-label from at least 2013 through 2023, but stale: the Starbucks credit disappeared from bags and from Costco's own listing between late 2023 and April 2024, and no tier 1–5 evidence identifies the current roaster.
Evidence & sources
Costco does not disclose its suppliers, and no tier 1–5 source names the maker of this product. Below are the databases and records we checked, and what each one returned.
Costco.com product listing, item #4000232205 (via Wayback Machine — live costco.com blocks automated fetches) July 5, 2026
The current listing names no roaster — 'Roasted in the USA' and 'Whole Bean Arabica' only — in the 2024-04-25, 2025-04-04, and 2025-10-17 captures. The superseded pre-2024 listings (items #100493931 / #6979000) said 'Custom Roasted by Starbucks' and 'Roasted by Starbucks Coffee Co.®'.
FDA / USDA FSIS / CPSC recall databases (web sweep for Kirkland + coffee) July 5, 2026
No recall names a roaster or co-packer for Kirkland bagged House Blend coffee. The February 2023 recall of ~2.77M cans of Kirkland Signature Colombian Cold Brew named supplier Berner Food & Beverage, but that is a different product and is not evidence for the House Blend.
News and executive-statement sweep, 2024–2026 (Google web + news) July 5, 2026
No statement from Costco or any roaster identifies the current House Blend roaster. Food-media coverage through January 2026 (Chowhound 2024-03-13; Tasting Table 2024-06-17 and 2026-01-10; Food Republic 2024-11-23) uniformly reports the successor as unconfirmed.
Community sweep: Reddit r/Costco (as aggregated by press) and enthusiast forums (TUG) July 5, 2026
Contradictory unverified speculation only — Rogers Family Co. (floated by Chowhound), Keurig/Green Mountain (floated by Tasting Table), Peet's (a forum guess). No first-party or documentary support for any candidate; all rumored (unverified).
ImportYeti (US customs bills of lading) July 5, 2026
Not probative for this item: current bags state 'Roasted in the USA', so sea-freight records cover green-bean imports rather than the domestic roasting contract, and Costco masks many shipments via freight forwarders (SPEC tier 5 caveat). No public bill of lading naming a House Blend roaster surfaced.
Costco's manufacturer field on its Business Center product page (item 2001159861) October 5, 2026
Read on 2026-10-05 and it identifies no roaster. Costco's Business Center storefront serves the same US catalog data as costco.com and, unlike costco.com, can be fetched directly, and on other Kirkland coffee bags that field does name a company — the Espresso Blend and French Roast pages both carry 'PARIS BROTHERS INC', and the Decaf House Blend page carries 'JBR INC'. On the House Blend page the same field reads 'CWC DBA CWI', one of Costco's own internal placeholders rather than a company name. Because the field gives different values for different Kirkland coffee bags rather than repeating one vendor, a placeholder here is a genuine blank rather than a failed lookup.
Manufacturer history
An attribution goes out of date when a supplier changes. We date each change and keep the earlier source.
| Period | Manufacturer | What the record says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Present | Not established | Current attribution (unknown). See the evidence above. | Evidence ↑ |
| 2013 or earlier → 2024 | Starbucks Coffee Company | Label-verified era: bags and Costco's own listing carried an on-label roasting credit ('Roasted by Starbucks Coffee Co.®' / 'Custom Roasted by Starbucks'), documented from February 2013 through the October 2022 listing capture. The credit disappeared when Costco relisted the product under new item #4000232205 between late 2023 and April 2024, with no comment from either company; press reports the contract ended, but the reason for the change is unconfirmed and no successor has been identified. | NEAROF! ↗ |
Frequently asked
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