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Ten Ren's Tea or Tian Ren's Tea () is a Taiwanese company that specializes in
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products.


History

Founded in 1953 in
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by Ray Ho Lee, Ten Ren's Group (天仁集團) also operates Cha for Tea teahouses in Southern California as well as Ten Ren's Tea (天仁茗茶) stores in California and six Ten Rens in New York, and other places, and through the subsidiary Ten Fu Group (天福集團) produces and sells tea products in
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, where much of its activity now takes place. By 2003 it had 113 outlets globally, making it Taiwan's largest tea shop chain.


Global operations

Ten Ren Tea is located in
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, Malaysia, the United States and other countries. The Ten Ren Tea and the Lu-Yu Tea Institute are part of the Ten Fu Group. The Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute (陸羽茶藝中心) was founded in 1980. Ten Fu Group in 1993, as a way of bringing Taiwanese tea expertise back to the Chinese mainland. Ten Fu now has over 1000 retails stores across China "as of 2010". Tenfu Tea College (天福茶學院) was founded in 2007 by Ten Fu Group. Ten Ren's Tea Vancouver store was featured as a challenge location in an episode of The Amazing Race Canada. The episode was watched by 2.9 million Canadians.


See also

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List of companies of Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pa ...


References


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External links


Ten Ren's Group
- Official Taiwan Website
Ten Ren's Tea Group
- Official Canada Website
TenRenUSA.com
- Official USA website {{Food chains in Australia 1953 establishments in Taiwan Companies based in Taipei Food and drink companies established in 1953 Tea brands in Taiwan Tea companies of Taiwan Tea houses Taiwanese brands Bubble tea brands