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Nespresso Professional brings professional coffee within reach of South Africa’s smaller businesses with new Giorno Mini

 ·7 Sep 2026

Nespresso Professional has introduced Giorno Mini, a compact professional coffee machine designed specifically around the needs of small and medium offices (SMOs).

With its compact footprint and straightforward operation, Giorno Mini makes it easier for smaller businesses to offer a professional coffee experience to employees, clients and guests.

Designed for start-ups and growing businesses, Giorno Mini brings a professional coffee solution into environments where space and simplicity are important.

In doing so, Nespresso Professional is bringing the quality, expertise and reliability of its professional coffee offering to a new generation of smaller businesses.

Its compact format is suited to smaller workplaces, while its ease of use allows businesses to offer quality coffee without the need for specialist barista training.

“Giorno Mini has been designed for businesses that want to offer an exceptional coffee experience without compromising on space. Whether it’s a small office, a hotel guest room, or a boutique hospitality venue, Giorno Mini delivers premium quality, versatile beverage options, and the reliability of the Nespresso Professional system. We believe this launch will help more businesses create meaningful coffee moments that delight employees, customers, and guests alike,” says Ettienne Marais, Head of B2B at Nespresso Professional.

A workplace ritual, reshaped for smaller spaces

As more South Africans build and run businesses from smaller offices, studios and client-facing spaces, coffee has increasingly become part of how those businesses present themselves, a small but telling marker of professionalism.

For SMOs, however, offering that experience at a premium level has typically meant either compromising on quality or investing in machines and service models built for far larger operations.

Giorno Mini has been developed for this opportunity, bringing a professional coffee experience to a format designed specifically around the needs of SMOs.

A significant market, ready for a different approach

South Africa’s small and medium office segment represents a significant everyday coffee occasion, with an estimated 100 million cups consumed annually.

Yet for many smaller businesses, professional coffee solutions have traditionally been designed around the space, scale and requirements of much larger workplaces.

Giorno Mini changes that equation.

By combining a compact footprint with simple operation and the quality of the Nespresso Professional system, it gives smaller businesses a professional coffee solution designed around how they actually work.

This creates an opportunity for Nespresso Professional to serve a growing generation of start-ups and smaller businesses across finance, technology, professional services and the creative industries – extending its professional coffee expertise into workplaces where a premium coffee experience has previously been harder to access.

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