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List Of Tea Companies
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on companies that produce or distribute tea. * Global * Lipton (Lipton Teas and Infusions; except in India, Nepal and Indonesia where it is owned by Unilever Hindustan) * Tetley (Tata Global Beverages) * Twinings (Associated British Foods) Australia * Dilmah * Bushells (Lipton Teas and Infusions) * Madame Flavour * Madura Tea Estates * Nerada Tea * T2 (Australian company) (Lipton Teas and Infusions) Bangladesh * M. M. Ispahani Limited Brazil * Matte Leão Canada * DavidsTea * Red Rose Tea (owned by Lipton Teas and Infusions; except in the United States where it is owned by Teekanne) * Tim Hortons (owned by Restaurant Brands International) China * Ten Fu Group (Zhangzhou, Fujian) France * Betjeman & Barton * Fauchon * Kusmi Tea * Ladurée * Le Palais des Thés * Mariage Frères Germany * TeaGschwendner * Teekanne (company), Teekanne * Teekampagne Hong Kong * Luk Yu (tea house), Luk Yu India * Godrej Group, Godrej Tea * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipton
Lipton is a brand named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton, Tom Lipton, who started an eponymous grocery retail business in the United Kingdom in 1871. The brand was used for various consumer goods sold in Lipton stores, including tea from 1890 for which the brand is now best known. The Lipton brand today is owned by Lipton Teas and Infusions after CVC Capital Partners acquired the business from Unilever in 2022. Unilever retained use of the Lipton brand for tea in India, Nepal, and Indonesia as well as for ready to drink beverages globally, such as Lipton Ice Tea, which are sold by a joint venture between Unilever and PepsiCo, and not associated with Lipton Teas and Infusions. Unilever continues to produce instant soup mixes under the Lipton name in North America, which is also not associated with Lipton Teas and Infusions. History Origins In 1871, Thomas Lipton (1848–1931) of Glasgow, Scotland, used his small savings to open his own shop, and by the 1880s the busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc., known colloquially as Tim's, Timmies, or Timmy's, is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain with headquarters in Toronto; it serves coffee, Doughnut, donuts, sandwiches, Breakfast sandwich, breakfast egg muffins and other Fast food, fast-food items. It is Canada's largest Quick-service restaurant, quick-service restaurant chain, with 5,701 restaurants in 13 countries, as of . The company was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian ice hockey player Tim Horton (1930–1974) and Jim Charade (1934–2009), after an initial venture in hamburger restaurants. In 1967, Horton partnered with investor Ron Joyce, who assumed control over operations after Horton died in 1974. Joyce expanded the chain into a multi-billion dollar franchise. Charade left the organization in 1966 and briefly returned in 1970 and 1993 through 1996. The Wendy's Company merged with Tim Hortons in 1995 and operated it under their Wendy's, flagship subsidia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godrej Group
Godrej Enterprises Group (Including Godrej & Boyce and its affiliates) is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. G&B was founded in 1897 by Ardeshir Godrej and Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej. The company is known for developing one of the earliest springless locks and manufacturing refrigerators in India. In 2024, the Godrej family restructured its businesses, forming two independent entities: Godrej Enterprises Group and Godrej Industries Group. Jamshyd Godrej serves as the Chairperson and Managing Director of GEG, while Nyrika Holkar is the Executive Director. GEG operates in over 60 countries across five continents and has business interests in aerospace, defense, energy, security, and consumer durables through its flagship company, Godrej & Boyce, and its affiliates. In 2024, the company introduced a new identity with a purple logo while retaining its cursive signature design. History Godrej & Boyce (G&B), the flagship company of Godrej Enterprises Group, was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luk Yu (tea House)
Luk Yu () is a teahouse and dim sum restaurant located on Stanley Street, in the Central area of Hong Kong, established in 1933. It is currently the oldest restaurant in Hong Kong. It is known for its colonial style, adherence to tradition and loyal long-time customers, for whom the entire first floor is unofficially reserved. It also known for its traditional dishes and dim sum. Some examples are its Sauteed Fillet of Pigeon with Crispy "Kam Wah" Ham (雲腿鵪鶉球), Sweet and Sour Pork with Young Ginger (子薑咕嚕肉), Grouper Toast (石斑多士), and Pig Liver Shiu Mai (豬潤燒賣). The tea house gets its name from the Tang dynasty poet Luk Yu () who wrote ''The Classic of Tea'' which describes the history and culture of Chinese tea. Luk Yu also sells branded tea bags in Hong Kong and the UK. Murder of Harry Lam On 30 November 2002, businessman Harry Lam Hon-lit was shot dead at point-blank range while eating breakfast at Luk Yu. His murderer was Yang Wen, a hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teekampagne
Teekampagne (which has its headquarters in Potsdam, Germany, and can roughly be translated into English as 'Tea Campaign') is the largest mail order tea business in Germany and the world's largest importer of Darjeeling loose leaf tea. Teekampagne runs a traceability program allowing to follow each single package to the tea garden where it comes from. This includes also documents of sampling, analysis, EGCG, certificate of origin and cargo inspections. Teekampagne was founded in Berlin in 1985 by Günter Faltin, entrepreneur and professor of entrepreneurship at the Freie Universität Berlin. The company's business model saves costs on storage, transportation and packaging: it imports directly from India, limits itself to one product (Darjeeling tea), trades only organic teas, subjects that product to stringent tests for quality, and sells in large packages. Teekampagne runs a reforestation plan in Darjeeling in cooperation with the WWF. The plan is funded solely by the Teekampagn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teekanne (company)
Teekanne GmbH & CO. kg is a German tea trading company, based in Düsseldorf. The founders Rudolf Anders and Eugen Nissle were the first to sell tea in tin box, tins and already mixed teas on a high quality level. Furthermore, they went on to invent the machine-made tea bag. Today the family-run company produces 7.5 billion tea bags per year. History Teekanne, then known under the name “R.Seelig & Hille”, was founded on 16 July 1882 in Dresden. In 1888 the company was renamed “Theekanne”, old German spelling for "Teekanne", meaning "teapot", and registered as a trademark. The registration number 6541 makes it one of Germany´s oldest trademarks still existing. The two employees Eugen Nissle and Rudolf Anders bought the company in 1892; the first to sell blended, packaged tea. The company has remained family-owned ever since. In 1912 the tea brand “Teefix” was registered, along with the "Pompadour" brand. During World War I, Teekanne provided soldiers and civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TeaGschwendner
TeaGschwendner () is a chain of retail shops and European bistros which sell loose leaf tea and tea accessories. The company started in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ... in 1978 and now operates in four countries, across two continents. As it stands today, TeaGschwendner is a privately owned tea merchant in the field of tea brokers. Coming out in the public markets in 2008 at the World Tea Expo, TeaGschwendner was the highest ranked tea merchant with 27/30 judged teas in a top three respective category; comparably, the next competing company, Rishi Tea, was closer to 13/30. As of 2008, TeaGschwendner tea is also being sold by independently owned small businesses, namely, TeaHaus in Ann Arbor, MI. References External links Company website {{Authorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariage Frères
Mariage Frères (French language, French, ''Mariage Brothers'') is a French gourmet tea company, based in Paris. It was founded on 1 June 1854 by brothers Henri and Edouard Mariage. History The tea trade in France began to boom in the middle of the 17th century. At this time, Louis XIV of France, King Louis XIV and the Louis XIV's East India Company, French East India Company encouraged the exploration of distant lands in the search of exotic goods. Around 1660, Nicolas and Pierre Mariage began voyaging on behalf of the royal court: Pierre was sent to Madagascar on a mission for the French East India Company, while Nicolas made several trips to Iran, Persia and India before being named part of an official deputation sent by Louis XIV to sign a trade agreement with the Shah of Persia.Alain Stella: French Tea. Mariage Frères. Photos Francis Hammond. Flammarion, 2003. Successive generations of the Mariage family remained in the tea trade and in 1843, by then reflecting their experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladurée
Pâtisserie E. Ladurée, commonly known as Ladurée (), is a French manufacturer and retailer of high-end pastries and candy, established in 1862. Ladurée is well-known throughout the world for its Macaron, macarons. The company is a ''société par actions simplifiée'' (simplified joint stock corporation) and has its head office in Paris, France. Early years Louis Ernest Ladurée, a miller, founded a bakery in 1862 on the rue Royale, Paris. During the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, the bakery was burnt down. A pastry shop was built at the same location, and Jules Chéret was entrusted with the interior decoration. The cherub, chubby cherubs dressed as pastry cooks, painted by him on the ceiling, form the company's emblem. The interior of the premises were painted in the same celadon colour as the façade. Ladurée's rise to fame came in 1930 when his little cousin, Pierre Desfontaines, had the original idea of the double-decker, sticking two macaron shells together with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kusmi Tea
Kusmi Tea is a brand of tea, headquartered in Paris, France. Originally founded by Pavel Kousmichoff in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1867, the brand moved to Paris, at the onset of the Russian Revolution, in 1917. The brand is currently owned by Groupe Orientis. History The founder of Kusmi Tea, Pavel Kousmichoff (from whom the brand gains its name) left home at the age of 14 to work for a tea merchant in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kousmichoff worked with the tea merchant until his marriage in 1867, when Kousmichoff was given a small tea house by the tea merchant. Under Kousmichoff, the business prospered and grew in popularity, by 1880 becoming a favourite of the Russian nobility. By 1901, the firm had expanded the business to a chain of about 10 tea houses. In 1907, Kousmichoff's son Vyatcheslav opened a shop at 11 Queen Victoria Street, London. In 1908, on the death of his father, Vyatcheslav took over the reins of the family business. The business continued to prosper under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fauchon
Fauchon is a French gourmet food and delicatessen company that was founded in 1886 in Paris, France. Fauchon is considered a major reference in contemporary French gourmet foods, and it had 81 outlets in operation around the world as of 2019. History Origins from 1886 until 1952 The founder of the Fauchon brand, Auguste Fauchon, was born in Ellon, Calvados, Ellon, Calvados (department), Calvados, in 1856. He moved to Paris in 1880, where he began to work as a street vendor, moving on to become a wine and spirits merchant. In 1886, at the age of 30, he opened a fine foods outlet on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The quality of the products made by Fauchon and its numerous approved suppliers quickly made it well-known internationally, and it came to symbolise French-style luxury. In 1968, French radicals chose to raid Fauchon and distribute foie gras to the poor. During the Second World War, restrictions and rationing made business difficult for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
