List of tea companies
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France

  • Betjeman & Barton
    Betjeman & Barton
    Based in Paris, France, Betjeman & Barton have been tea merchants since 1919. They offer black, perfumed, and herbal teas from around the world.- External links :* . In French and English....

  • Fauchon
    Fauchon
    Fauchon is a French gourmet food company that was founded in 1886 by Auguste Fauchon. The company is based in Paris, France and operates retail outlets. Fauchon currently produces tea, chocolate, biscuits and sweets among other products.- History :...

  • Kusmi Tea
    Kusmi Tea
    Kusmi Tea is a brand of tea with headquarters in Paris, France. The company, which produces Russian-style teas and tea blends, was established by Pavel Michailovitch Kousmichoff in 1867 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Upon the onset of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Kousmichoff company...

  • Ladurée
    Ladurée
    Ladurée is a luxury cakes and pastries brand based in :Paris, France. It is known as the inventor of the double-decker macaron, fifteen thousand of which are sold every day...

  • Le Palais des Thés
  • Mariage Frères
    Mariage Frères
    Mariage Frères is a French tea company, based in :Paris. It was founded on 1 June 1854 by brothers Henri and Edouard Mariage.-References:*...


India

  • Godrej Tea
    Godrej Group
    The Godrej Group is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, India. It was founded by Ardeshir Godrej and Pirojsha Godrej in 1897, Lalbaug, Mumbai...

  • Tata Tea Limited
  • Unilever
    Unilever
    Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....

     brands
    • Brooke Bond
      Brooke Bond
      Brooke Bond is a brand-name of tea owned by Unilever, formerly an independent manufacturer in the United Kingdom, known for its PG Tips brand and its Brooke Bond tea cards.- History :...

    • Lipton
      Lipton
      Lipton is a brand of tea currently owned by Unilever.-History of Lipton Tea:Lipton was created at the end of the 19th century by a grocer, Sir Thomas Lipton, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1893, he established the Thomas J. Lipton Co., a tea packing company with its headquarters and factory in Hobo ken,...

    • Darjeeling Teaxpress

Ireland

  • Barry's Tea
    Barry's Tea
    Barry's Tea is an Irish tea company founded in 1901 in Cork City. Until the 1960s, tea was sold from a shop in Prince's Street, but thereafter as a result of its increasing popularity, the company expanded its wholesaling and distribution operations. By the 1990s, the company had become one of...

  • Bewley's
    Bewley's
    Bewley's Limited is an Irish company, established in 1840, that produces tea and coffee for sale around the world. The company is owned by Campbell Bewley Group Ltd....

  • Lyons Tea
  • Punjana
    Punjana
    Punjana is a brand of tea produced by the Belfast based tea company Punjana Limited. Punjana Limited is the only major privately owned business in Northern Ireland involved in the importation, blending and packaging of branded and own label teas. Punjana was founded in 1896 by the Thompson family....

  • Tetley
    Tetley
    Tetley, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages , is the world's second largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. Owned by India's Tata Group, Tetley's manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags...

     (RCM
    RCM
    RCM may refer to:* Radar Coded Message, a form of Nexrad radar output* Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, a scientific journal...

    )

United Kingdom

The UK market is dominated by five brands - PG Tips and Tetley, Premier Foods (was bought by an Indian firm: India's Apeejay Surrendra Group), Associated British food and Bettys & Taylors. Tetley leads the market with 27% share, followed by PG Tips with about 24% share. Premier food is in third place, with about 13% share, Associated British food is 4th with about 11% share and Bettys & Taylors 5th with about 6% share. (Source: ACNielsen Total Cov GB 52 we 25.02.08)

  • Fortnum & Mason
    Fortnum & Mason
    Fortnum & Mason, often shortened to just "Fortnum's" is a department store, situated in central London, with two other branches in Japan. Its headquarters is located at 181 Piccadilly, where it was established in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason...

  • Bettys and Taylors
    Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate
    Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate is an Anglo-Swiss family company located in North and West Yorkshire, England. Bettys Café Tea Rooms are traditional tea rooms serving traditional meals with influences both from Switzerland and Yorkshire. Taylors is a family tea and coffee merchant company which...

  • Premier food
  • Associated British foods
    Associated British Foods
    Associated British Foods plc is a global food, ingredients and retail company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its ingredients division is the world's second largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major producer of other ingredients including emulsifiers, enzymes and lactose...

  • Brooke Bond
    Brooke Bond
    Brooke Bond is a brand-name of tea owned by Unilever, formerly an independent manufacturer in the United Kingdom, known for its PG Tips brand and its Brooke Bond tea cards.- History :...

     (no longer trading under this name - see PG Tips
    PG Tips
    PG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Unilever UK. It is claimed that Britons drink 35 million cups of the tea every day.-Brand name:...

    ) (Unilever
    Unilever
    Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....

    )
  • Charbrew tea
  • Frederick John Horniman
    Frederick John Horniman
    Frederick John Horniman was an English tea trader, collector and public benefactor.He was the son of John Horniman, who established a tea business using mechanical packaging. In 1891, it was said to be the biggest tea company in the world.He founded the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, south London...

  • Lancashire Tea
    Lancashire Tea
    Lancashire Tea is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom, based in Liverpool, Lancashire, in North West England. The Lancashire Tea Company was formed by Paul Needham and business partner Lynn Hitchen in 2006 to give Lancashire its own brand and as a rival to Yorkshire Tea. Packaging of the tea...

  • Lipton
    Lipton
    Lipton is a brand of tea currently owned by Unilever.-History of Lipton Tea:Lipton was created at the end of the 19th century by a grocer, Sir Thomas Lipton, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1893, he established the Thomas J. Lipton Co., a tea packing company with its headquarters and factory in Hobo ken,...

     (Unilever
    Unilever
    Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....

    )
  • Lyons Tea (Tetley
    Tetley
    Tetley, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages , is the world's second largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. Owned by India's Tata Group, Tetley's manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags...

    )
  • Marks & Spencer
    Marks & Spencer
    Marks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...

  • Matthew Algie
    Matthew Algie
    Matthew Algie is a company selling coffee, coffee-making machines, tea, and other products such as hot chocolate primarily in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland....

  • PG Tips
    PG Tips
    PG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Unilever UK. It is claimed that Britons drink 35 million cups of the tea every day.-Brand name:...

     (Unilever
    Unilever
    Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....

    )
  • Ringtons
  • Scottish Blend
    Scottish Blend
    Scottish Blend is Scotland's second most popular brand of tea.Manufactured by Unilever UK Foods, who also make PG Tips and Lipton, it is specially blended to optimise taste in the soft waters of Scotland....

     (Unilever
    Unilever
    Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....

    )
  • Tetley
    Tetley
    Tetley, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages , is the world's second largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. Owned by India's Tata Group, Tetley's manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags...

     (Tata Tea Limited)
  • Twinings
    Twinings
    Twinings is a marketer of tea based in Andover, Hampshire, England.- History :The founder of Twinings, Thomas Twining, opened the first known tea room, at 216 Strand, London, in 1706, which is still operating today. The firm's logo, created in 1787, is one of the world's oldest in continuous use...

    (Associated British Foods
    Associated British Foods
    Associated British Foods plc is a global food, ingredients and retail company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its ingredients division is the world's second largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major producer of other ingredients including emulsifiers, enzymes and lactose...

    )
  • Typhoo (no longer owned by Premier Foods Premier Foods
    Premier Foods
    Premier Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...

    ) (new owner: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4337140.stm)
  • Whittard of Chelsea
    Whittard of Chelsea
    Whittard of Chelsea are an international retailer of coffee, tea and various items that are used for the consumption of hot beverages. Instant tea, Hot chocolate and Confectionery are also amongst their leading products.- History :...

  • Yorkshire Tea
    Yorkshire Tea
    Yorkshire Tea is a black tea blend produced by Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate, one of the few remaining family tea and coffee merchants in the United Kingdom.The company was founded in 1886 by Yorkshire tea merchant Charles Taylor...

     (owned by: Betty & Tailors Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate
    Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate
    Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate is an Anglo-Swiss family company located in North and West Yorkshire, England. Bettys Café Tea Rooms are traditional tea rooms serving traditional meals with influences both from Switzerland and Yorkshire. Taylors is a family tea and coffee merchant company which...

    )
  • Nambarrie
    Nambarrie
    Nambarrie is the brand name of a tea company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, owned by Twinings. On 10 April 2008 Nambarrie announced its plans to close its factory in Belfast. The factory is now closed and production currently takes place in England....

     (Twinings
    Twinings
    Twinings is a marketer of tea based in Andover, Hampshire, England.- History :The founder of Twinings, Thomas Twining, opened the first known tea room, at 216 Strand, London, in 1706, which is still operating today. The firm's logo, created in 1787, is one of the world's oldest in continuous use...

    )

Loose tea and tea bags

  • Argo Tea
    Argo Tea
    Argo Tea is a chain of tea cafes that was founded in the Lincoln Park community area in Chicago, Illinois, in June 2003. It is now headquartered in Chicago's Loop community area. It had more than a dozen locations in the Chicago metropolitan area before expanding in 2010 to New York City, where it...

  • Bigelow
    Bigelow Tea Company
    R.C. Bigelow, Inc, better known as the Bigelow Tea Company, is an American tea company based in Fairfield, Connecticut. The company was founded by Ruth C. Bigelow in the late 1940s, based on a recipe she marketed as "Constant Comment" tea...

  • Boston Tea Campaign
    Teekampagne
    Teekampagne is the largest mail order tea business in Germany and the world’s largest importer of Darjeeling loose tea....

  • Celestial Seasonings
    Celestial Seasonings
    Celestial Seasonings is a tea company based in Boulder, Colorado, United States that specializes in herbal tea but also sells green, wellness, red, white, chai, holiday and black teas. They account for over $100,000,000 in herbal tea blends sales in the United States annually. All of their teas are...

  • The Coffee Bean
  • Good Earth Teas
    Good Earth Teas
    Good Earth Teas is a tea distributor based in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1972 under their parent company Fmali Herb Company, it was originally one of the first American herbal tea companies during the early 1970s...

     (Tata Tea Limited)
  • Harney and Sons
    Harney and Sons
    Harney & Sons is an American tea company based in Salisbury, Connecticut. They specialise in high-quality loose teas and tisanes, and offer several products that are organic and certified kosher...

  • Imperial Tea Garden
  • Ito En
    Ito en
    is a Japanese multinational beverage company specializing in tea production, distribution, and sales. ITO EN is the largest green tea distributor in Japan. The Ito En Group includes subsidiaries based in Japan, The United States, and Australia. Its products include unsweetened, bottled green tea...

  • Kalahari Tea
    Kalahari Tea
    - Kalahari Tea :Kalahari Tea imports, distributes and sells via its web site a variety of specialty teas. Originally founded by Ned Fitch and David Abrahams, the company focuses in particular on South African Rooibos or red tea, which it sells in Giant Eagle and GNC stores...

  • Lipton
    Lipton
    Lipton is a brand of tea currently owned by Unilever.-History of Lipton Tea:Lipton was created at the end of the 19th century by a grocer, Sir Thomas Lipton, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1893, he established the Thomas J. Lipton Co., a tea packing company with its headquarters and factory in Hobo ken,...

  • Luzianne
    Luzianne
    Luzianne is the brand name for a line of Southern beverages and packaged goods, most famously Luzianne coffee and iced tea. Though most Luzianne products are available throughout the country, the popularity of the brand rests mainly in the Southern United States...

  • Mighty Leaf Tea
    Mighty Leaf Tea
    The Mighty Leaf Tea Company is a specialty tea manufacturer and distributor based in San Rafael, California. Known for pioneering the whole leaf tea pouch filled with whole tea leaves, herbs and fruits, Mighty Leaf Tea was founded by husband and wife team Gary Shinner and Jill Portman in 2000...

  • Numi Organic Tea
  • Peet's Coffee & Tea
    Peet's Coffee & Tea
    Peet's Coffee & Tea is a specialty coffee roaster and retailer. Founded in 1966 by Alfred Peet in Berkeley, California as "Peet's Coffee, Tea & Spices", Peet's is especially known for its strong, dark roasted coffee, including its Major Dickason blend.- Company history :Alfred Peet started Peet's...

  • The Republic Of Tea
    Republic of Tea
    The Republic of Tea is a company that markets organic and exotic teas from around the world. The company was founded in 1992 by Mel and Patricia Ziegler with Bill Rosenzweig after selling their interest in the original Banana Republic stores, which the Zieglers co-founded .The Republic of Tea is...

  • Stash Tea
  • Tavalon Tea
    Tavalon tea
    Tavalon Tea is a New York City based tea company that sells premium loose-leaf teas and related tea products from all over the world. The music inspired tea company categorizes their blends and infusions as Mixes, Remixes, & Uncuts....

  • Tazo
    Tazo
    Tazo Tea Company is a tea manufacturer and distributor based in Portland, Oregon, now a division of Starbucks.-History:Tazo Tea was founded in 1994 by Steve Smith along with his business partners Stephen Lee and Tom Mesher. Lee and Smith had co-founded the Stash Tea Company in 1972...

  • Tea Forté
    Tea Forté
    Tea Forté Inc. is an American tea company based in Concord, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 2003 by Peter Hewitt, an American product designer and graduate from RISD...

  • TeaGschwendner
    TeaGschwendner
    TeaGschwendner is a chain of retail shops and European Bistros which sell loose leaf tea and tea accessories. The company started in Germany in 1978 and now operates in seven countries on four continents including three locations in the US. As it stands today, TeaGschwendner is also the only...

  • Teavana
    Teavana
    Teavana is a specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Teavana currently operates over 180 company-owned stores in 36 U.S. states and Mexico.- History :...

  • Tetley
    Tetley
    Tetley, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages , is the world's second largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. Owned by India's Tata Group, Tetley's manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags...

     (Tata Tea Limited)
  • Upton Tea
  • Salada tea
    Salada tea
    Salada tea is a product sold by Salada Foods, a division of Redco Foods, Inc., a United States company.- History :Salada tea was founded in 1892 by Montreal businessman Peter C. Larkin...

  • Red Rose Tea
    Red Rose Tea
    Red Rose Tea is a beverage company established by Theodore Harding Estabrooks in 1894 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Its orange pekoe tea is said to be made from only the top two leaves of each tea plant sprig, thus ensuring the best quality....

  • Yogi Tea
    Yogi Tea
    Yogi Tea creates and manufactures a wide variety of premium teas, including green, herbal, black and red tea. Yogi Tea is part of Golden Temple of Oregon, LLC...


Bottled tea

  • Argo Tea
    Argo Tea
    Argo Tea is a chain of tea cafes that was founded in the Lincoln Park community area in Chicago, Illinois, in June 2003. It is now headquartered in Chicago's Loop community area. It had more than a dozen locations in the Chicago metropolitan area before expanding in 2010 to New York City, where it...

  • AriZona Beverage Company
    AriZona Beverage Company
    AriZona Beverages USA is a producer of various flavors of iced tea, juice cocktails and energy drinks from the United States, based in Woodbury, New York....

  • Cha Dao Tea Company
    Cha Dao Tea Company
    Cha Dao Tea Company is a Seattle-based beverage company that brews and bottles fresh, refrigerated ready-to-drink teas. Cha Dao was founded by Singaporean-born Ghim-Sim Chua. The focus of the company is to provide fresh, healthy teas in ready to drink bottles for the natural foods industry...

  • Ito En
    Ito en
    is a Japanese multinational beverage company specializing in tea production, distribution, and sales. ITO EN is the largest green tea distributor in Japan. The Ito En Group includes subsidiaries based in Japan, The United States, and Australia. Its products include unsweetened, bottled green tea...

  • Honest Tea
    Honest Tea
    Honest Tea is a bottled organic tea company based in Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1998 by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff. On February 5, 2008, the Coca-Cola Company announced its purchase of a 40% stake of the company at $43 million....

  • Lipton
    Lipton
    Lipton is a brand of tea currently owned by Unilever.-History of Lipton Tea:Lipton was created at the end of the 19th century by a grocer, Sir Thomas Lipton, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1893, he established the Thomas J. Lipton Co., a tea packing company with its headquarters and factory in Hobo ken,...

  • Nestea
    Nestea
    Nestea is a brand of iced tea manufactured by Nestle and distributed by Nestle company's beverage department in the United States and byBeverage Partners Worldwide , a joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and Nestle, in the rest of the world. It competes with Unilever/Pepsi's Lipton Iced Tea...

  • Snapple
    Snapple
    Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks which is owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group and based in Plano, Texas. The brand was founded in 1972. The brand achieved some notoriety due to various pop-culture references including television shows.-History:...

  • SoBe
    SoBe
    SoBe is a brand of teas, fruit-juice blends and enhanced water beverages owned by PepsiCo. The name SoBe is an abbreviation of South Beach, named after the upscale area located in Miami Beach, Florida. In the past, the SoBe name has also been licensed for gum and chocolate products...

  • Sweet Leaf Tea
  • Tazo
    Tazo
    Tazo Tea Company is a tea manufacturer and distributor based in Portland, Oregon, now a division of Starbucks.-History:Tazo Tea was founded in 1994 by Steve Smith along with his business partners Stephen Lee and Tom Mesher. Lee and Smith had co-founded the Stash Tea Company in 1972...

  • Turkey Hill
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