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{{see|The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company}}
[[File:1894 AP newspaper ad.png|thumbnail|left|1894 newspaper ad for "Eight O'Clock Breakfast Blend" coffee from A&P]]
A&P was established as "Gilman & Company" in 1859, and began selling bags of whole bean coffee on their own. Their coffee, however,
[[File:1922 Eight O'Clock Coffee ad.png|thumbnail|right|In 1922, the coffee cost 25¢ a pound.]]
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In 2003, A&P spun off the Eight O'Clock Coffee brand to Gryphon Investors, a private equity firm based in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], which used the brand to create the Eight O'Clock Coffee Company. A few weeks later, Eight O'Clock's ground coffee line was introduced. Gryphon Investors would soon turn around and sell Eight O'Clock Coffee Company to Tata Global Beverages in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2006-06-26/news-by-company/27423821_1_tata-coffee-mh-ashraff-gryphon-investors |title=Tatas buy Eight O'Clock Coffee |publisher=economictimes.com |date=2006-06-26 |accessdate=2012-07-26}}</ref>
In 2009, [[Consumer Reports]] rated Eight O'Clock Coffee's 100 percent [[Coffee production in Colombia|Colombian]] brew as the "best buy" for ground brews, beating well-known brands, such as [[Folgers]], [[Maxwell House]] and [[Starbucks]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/02/coffee-consumers-price-idUSN0247557920090202 |title=Eight O'Clock coffee "best buy" -Consumer Reports |publisher=Reuters.com |date= 2009-02-02|accessdate=2011-10-24 |first=Marcy |last=Nicholson}}</ref>
On August 8, 2013, the entire Eight O'Clock Coffee line was revamped with new packaging and
==Coffee products==
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