Case Study: Jacobs Douwe Egberts achieves faster, more transparent financial reporting with Workiva

Jacobs Douwe Egberts Is Brewing Up Something Special with Workiva

Jacob Douwe Egberts (JDE), a 265‑year‑old global coffee company within Acorn Holdings, faced growing complexity as it prepared consolidated financial statements for JDE, JDE Peet’s, Keurig Dr Pepper and Acorn Holdings. Their manual Excel and Word‑based process created version‑control issues, slow formatting, and poor cross‑time‑zone collaboration—making reporting too time‑consuming just as the group prepared for future growth and an IPO.

JDE adopted Workiva to link source files for each company into a consolidated overview, enabling multi‑user access, automatic updates from linked figures, and auditor visibility. The new process cut reporting time (finishing JDE’s financials a week earlier), simplified audits, reduced administrative work, improved collaboration across Europe and the U.S., and freed finance staff to focus on analysis—positioning the team to scale with the business.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Orestis Tzortzis

Global Accounting and Reporting Specialist