AVT Tea Services is an international provider of decaffeinated tea and tea extracts.  We are part of the AVThomas Group a Chennai based company involved in activities including tea production and active ingredient extraction from natural sources. Our decaffeinated tea is manfactured in our own facility on the outskirts of Kochi, South India and has the capability to remove caffeine from tea using all approved methods.  We are also able to manufacture and supply purified tea caffeine. 

The recently commissioned instant tea plant has been built on the same site enabling customers to benefit from synergies in product development and production and to make maximum use of AVT's wide-ranging expertise.  The factory has a broad range of capabilities including both cold and hot water soluble base powders as well  as green instant teas and liquid aromas.  Our production facilities are supported by an experienced and knowledgable sales department based in Battersea, South London.

Birchall is a fifth generation British tea company with a rich heritage and a passion for "the perfect pick". Our tea experts specialise in creating speciality and everyday black tea blends, in addition to green teas and fruit & herbal tea infusions.

Since 2011, our teas have won 56 accolades at The Guild of Fine Foods' prestigious Great Taste Awards and our signature Great Rift breakfast tea has received honours for 9 consecutive years.

We work hard to ensure all our teas are sustainability sourced and are long standing members of the UK Tea & Infusions Association, the Ethical Tea Partnership, Fairtrade Foundation and Rainforest Alliance..

For more information about our new retail collection and foodservice range, please visit our web site.

Since 1867 Brodies have catered for the great British taste for tea, selecting the finest leaves to create a specialist range of loose leaf and tea bags (standard and tagged), all bearing the Brodies stamp of quality. Our choice of 16 teas is renowned for its flavour and fullness, the most popular blends being Scottish Breakfast, Scottish Teatime and Famous Edinburgh. We sell to caterers and retailers across the UK and export worldwide.

Cup of Tea specialises in the finest orthodox produced teas from around the world. Sold online via our website and distributed wholesale to the finest hotels, restaurants and tea shops we have more than 200 teas available.

Our huge range encomasses teas from single estate Darjeelings to popular black teas, green teas and herbal and fruit infusions plus a new range of Ayurveda infusions specifically developed for Spa Hotels and Health Spa operations.

For our trade customers we provide everything needed to display, brew and serve our superb teas and infusions.

We have a strong focus on training and it is our belief that it is pointless working with great tea if it is not stored, brewed and served properly. Our exclusive customers benefit from free training on a regular basis to ensure that staff, of all levels, feel comfortable, confident and capable in working with top quality teas.

Styles of Tea & Services Offered:

Our list of teas include teas from India such as First and Second Flush Darjeelings, Assams, Ceylon Teas, plus an excellent range of white, green and black teas from China. We also offer our customers a carefully chosen selection of Japanese green teas (mostly organic), Oolongs from Taiwan and other growing areas and amongst our loose leaf teas are some from even more exotic locations such as Tanzania and Columbia.

The widest range of teas we list are in orthodox loose leaf format, however, we also have a large selection of traditional tag and string teabags filled with superior orthodox fannings plus leaf grade teabag formats .

We pride ourselves that quality, service and consistency are at the heart of what we do  and we are always happy to enthusiastically discuss tea with both our regular customers and potential customers.

Varieties of Tea Offered:

Orthodox loose leaf teas; Black; Green; White & Oolong. Orthodox produced flavoured Black; Green & Oolong teas.

Herbal and Fruit Infusions

Ayurveda Infusions.

Forthcoming Tea Events: 

Twice a year we host tea tasting workshops at our head office in Somerset. These events are hugely popular with tea enthusiasts and, especially, for those who are planning to start up a tea related business. For more details and information please visit our website: www.cupoftea.co.uk or call our offices on 01761 239162.

We are also happy to arrange personalised tea talks and to discuss your individual tea concept.

Business Hours:  Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

We offer loose leaf teas via our website and to specialist retailers, tea-rooms, cafes, restaurants and hotels.  Most of our teas are large leaf from single tea gardens, produced using traditional orthodox methods.  These ensure the fullest flavour.  Since 2000 our comprehensive and informative website has developed an interest in tea amongst our constantly growing and loyal customer base.  The online store offers over one hundred of the world's best teas.

Founded by a descendant of Earl Grey, we offer only the most distinctive teas from areas of the world renown for their tea: wonderful orchid-like black teas from the distant provinces of China; beautiful Oolongs from Formosa; malty Assams, muscatel Darjeelings or fragrant Nilgiris from the southern Blue mountains of India.  We have healthy Green or exotic White teas from China, India, Kenya and Japan.  We also offer classic blends. 

Retail orders over £30 are delivered free in the UK.

Jing Tea is a young, innovative tea importing company. It hand selects unusual and seasonal teas 'from China, India, Japan and Taiwan' for retail outlets including Harrods, corporate clients such as Coutts, the Queen's bankers, and restaurants including The Fat Duck.

Jing Tea fosters a unique relationship with the world's finest tea producers, enabling the company to source special and rare teas, including exceptional greens, whites, oolongs, blacks and puerh teas. The company also offers the best of more familiar teas from Darjeeling, Assam, Ceylon, and outstanding blends and scented teas such as Jasmine.

In addition, Jing Tea offers a full consultancy service, tea wares, tea tasting classes and can compose tea lists, events and pairing menus as well as tea tours in China and India. One of the world's best online tea shops can be found at www.jingtea.co.uk and in 2007 Jing Tea launched its own branded products for sale to retail outlets.

It was in 1934 that 24-year-old Keith Spicer founded the business, using the parlour of the family home in Bournemouth as the blending department and the distribution fleet consisting of a well-used but serviceable butcher?s bicycle. The company grew rapidly thereafter becoming an important supplier to the local hotel and catering industries and by 1970 had moved to its current location in Ferndown Industrial Estate Dorset.

In 2013 Spicers added a large manufacturing plant in Newcastle to support its blending expertise with the facilities to produce high volume bespoke tea blends. Spicers is now the chosen tea supplier of some of the largest UK supermarkets at the same time offering a broad portfolio of well-known branded teas.

We are an online Tea Boutique and we specialize in offering our customers unique varieties of elite tea from the best tea estates which are created to tease your sophisticated taste. We sell loose teas and herbal infusions. Wholesale is also available upon request.

Have you ever tasted tea with coconut, cactus or carrot? Our extensive range of exotic tea blends and infusions, some of which are exclusive on the UK tea market, will open new experiences for you whilst guaranteeing the traditional quality you deserve.

We are delighted to share more than 60 products of tea (regularly expanded) with 26 tea varieties from 7 regions across the world.

• Fantastic Flavour: flavoured black, green and white teas are exclusive in the UK tea market and contain natural components (herbs, blossoms, fruits, etc)
• Captivating Classics: wide range of our top quality black tea from around the world will bring a traditional atmosphere
• Good Green: green tea is not only delicious but is also good for you
• Wonderful White: white tea has a delicate taste and antioxidant effect
• Inspirational Infusions: our herbal infusions contain widest choice of herbs, fruits, leaves and blossoms bringing the goodness of natural components with unforgettable taste
• Elegant English: favourite English tastes of tea
• Something Special: exclusive tea collection from China with delicate and rare taste
• Awesome Autumn: our seasonal collection of tea to warm you up this autumn

Our Winter collection is coming soon with wonderful tea tastes to make you even happier during Christmas holidays.

We are madly in love with the tea we sell and would like to share our love with you.

Visit us today and our catalogue will open the window into the magic world of our divine tea.

Eminent Tea Consultant, Malcolm Ferris-Lay has over four decades of experience in the Tea Industry.

Malcolm started his training with Twining's in 1968 and then went on to work with one of London's premier Tea Brokers until the demise of the London Tea Auctions.

In 1984 he joined his family tea business with its four retail tea and coffee shops together with its wholesale business. After the successful sale of the business Malcolm became Sales & Marketing Director and later Managing Director of Williamson & Magor, probably the world's finest family owned tea growers and packers.

Malcolm is recommended by The UK Tea & Infusions Association (previously known as The UK Tea Council) for services as an expert trainer for Afternoon Tea for business conferences, world famous hotels, city and country hotels and tea rooms.

Clients have included Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle (Royal Collection); Atlantis Palm Hotel Dubai; Ritz Carlton Dubai; Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek (Dallas); The Angel Hotel Abergavenny, The Dorchester London, The Savoy, Corinthia London, Waterford Wedgewood Royal Doulton, InterContinental Hotels, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Althorp House and Priory House Tea Rooms.

Malcolm is pleased to offer his services in the following categories:
Afternoon Tea Training,
Menu Consultancy,
Lectures,
Tasting Training,
Bespoke Tea Blending,
Sourcing Product for both trade and consumers,
Packing,
Auditing,
Product Development.

About Reginald Ames

Reginald Ames Ltd. is a long standing tea company that has been running in London since 1934. It is a unique blend of traditional methods & ideologies with modern views & business knowhow. The company has several strings to its bow as follows:

1. Sourcing tea directly from the growing regions, whether this be from the centralised auctions, through brokers or directly with the estate owners, the focus is, as always, on highest possible quality. This can often include the rarest finds of just 2-3Kg lots of truly superb teas!
2. Once imported in to the UK, the company is able to supply teas internationally in varying quantities from 0.5Kg up to full container loads.
3. At their central London based warehouse, teas are also blended and/or scented to form a variety of both staple blends and bespoke blends as per customer?s requirements.
4. Although their strong reputation is built around quality leaf teas, a small amount of teabag packing also takes place at the warehouse in order to cater for the quality end of the teabag market.
5. A growing area of the business for Reginald Ames is ?own label? packing. The company is able to pack a whole range of products under a customers own label, giving the customer a quality end product with a minimal amount of fuss.

The Directors of the company still pay regular visits to the growing regions in order to ensure the quality of workmanship that they hold in such high regard.

On occasion, they have taken customers along with them to help enhance the customers knowledge ? after all, it is the company?s firm belief that they will only ever be as successful as their customers.

It is fortunate then, that their customers include some of the best tea companies, restaurants, hotels and tea rooms throughout the world.

History of Reginald Ames

Reginald Ames is one of the UK's remaining traditional Tea Merchants. The company still adheres to and maintains the very high standards that were a necessary requirement from its conception.

Our combined buying, brokering tea and herbal infusions, shipping and tea blending experience enables the staff at Reginald Ames to continue to provide a high quality service and exceptional product for wholesale and Export sales.

Our skilled team works together to ensure that only the best quality orthodox and CTC manufactured teas are used. The blending drums and teabag machines are continuously in use throughout the year ensuring consistent blends of speciality teas both for Wholesale/Export and individual customers - Speciality - Loose - Teabags.

We import teas from India, Africa, Asia, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, and other sources.

We are Tea Traders & Tea Brokers and our teas are sourced from Kenya, Indonesia and Malawi. We also supply tea to private label companies.

Silkenty brand is owned by The Tea & Herb Company in Sri Lanka. It is primarily engaged in premium & speciality quality pure Ceylon teas.

Silkenty teas are carefully filled silken infusers with premium ingredients - real leaf teas, whole buds and flowers, natural herbs, exotic spices and real fruit pieces. Each blend speaks of perfection and delivers maximum enjoyment. Our silken infusers allow discerning consumers to experience anexceptional cup of tea. Their structure allows us to fill them with the most premium grades of teas and herbs.

Silkenty teas can be bought online (www.silkenty.co.uk) and through Amazon

Varieties of Teas Offered: Pyramid Tea bags, Loose teas, Herbal teas, Speciality Teas & Fruit Teas

Breakfast Tea - Premium Ceylon Black Tea

Bombay Chai - Ceylon Black Tea, Cardamom, Ginger Root & Cinnamom

Earl Grey        - Ceylon Black Tea & Oil of Bergamot Orange

Honeydew Green - Honeydew Melon, Apricot & Gunpowder Green Tea

Traditional Oolong - Pure Oolong Tea

Chamomile Lemongrass - Chamomile & Lemongrass

Peppermint Rose - Real Mint Leaves with Baby Rose Petals

Crimson Nights - Hibiscus Flowers, Rosehips, Hawthorn Berries, Cranberry, Lemon Peel, Cherry

Tropical Dreams - Rose Petals, Rosehips, Sultanas, Blkcurrents, Blueberries, Strawberries.

Tranquility - Valerian Root, Passion Flowers, Chamomile, Lavender, Lemon Balm & Rose Petals

Vanilla Rooibos - Premium Rooibos, Marigold Petals & Natural Vanilla Essence

White Gold Tips - Pure White Tea for the most refined palate. Highly prized, subtle & elegant.

Tea People is an award winning, speciality tea company that is passionate about spreading the richness of natural, high quality whole-leaf tea. It was founded to address the issue of educational development in the tea growing regions and is hence set up as a social enterprise. We commit 50% of our net profits to help educate children in under-served tea growing areas.

Our teas range from the finest premium single estate teas to a wide variety of our own unique blends, flavours and herbal infusions. We cater to the needs of all tea lovers as well businesses including hotels, cafes, restaurants, etc.

One of our unique offerings is ?BESPOKE TEAS?, a service that allows our customers to create their own tea experience which could range from a new blend to customized labeling and packaging.

Our Teas:

At Tea People we sell a wide variety of teas and infusions catering to a wide array of tastes and palates. We offer our teas in both loose leaf form as well as specially designed biodegradable pyramid tea bags. Some of the teas that we stock include:

Single Estate Black Tea: We stock some of the finest single estate teas ranging from the 1st Flush Darjeeling to the premium Assam, Ceylon and Keynan teas.

Blended & Flavoured Black Tea: In addition to the ever popular English Breakfast and Earl Grey we also do a wide variety of other blends including the Indian Chai tea, Russian Caravan and Lapsang Souchong.
Our flavoured range of black teas containing Blueberry, Apricot and Peach, Lemon & Ginger, etc.

Green Tea: Our selection of Green tea ranges from the single estate green teas from Darjeeling and Celyon to flavoured and blended Green Tea such as Jasmine Green and Coconut Rose Green. We also stock a range of Japanese green teas including Matcha, Sencha and Genmaicha.

Flowering Tea: When it comes to our flowering or blooming teas, they are not just pretty to look at, but are also a delight to drink.

Oolong Tea: From Tie Guan Yin, China?s most popular Oolong tea to DarjOolong, a rare Oolong from Darjeeling you can find them at Tea People.

Herbal & Fruit Infusions: We boast of a wide range of some unique herbal and fruit infusions such as  Liquorice Mint Toffee, Spicy Apple, Very Berry, etc.

Rooibos: We stock an exclusive range of Rooibos or Red Bush tea. Our Choco Mint Rooibos won 2 gold stars at the Great Taste Awards 2014.

Tea Times Trading is a family-owned, British company, with a heritage of sourcing, growing and making tea that dates back to the 19th century. Through our award-winning brands - Tick Tock, Dragonfly Tea and Eleven o?Clock - we offer a wide range of authentic and traditional speciality teas and infusions, using only the highest quality, natural ingredients.

Rooted in generations of tea expertise, we are passionate about introducing tea lovers around the world to new, quality teas and flavours. We were the first to put such favourites as rooibos, white tea, chai, and honeybush on the shelves of health stores and other leading UK retailers.

Through our group company, Tea Sources, we also supply bulk fine speciality teas to the trade.

DRAGONFLY TEA - www.dragonflytea.com
Dragonfly Tea offers a selection of carefully sourced teas from the best tea gardens around the world.

Our organic certified Speciality range is a collection of carefully selected white, green, black and herbal teas from China, India, and Africa. All packed in individually wrapped string-and-tag teabags.

We also offer a range of premium, naturally caffeine free rooibos teas and an uplifting selection of everyday green teas to be enjoyed by everyone, whether you?re new to green tea or a regular drinker.

The Leaf Teas of Distinction range is our luxury collection of carefully selected, finest reserve leaf teas. The epitome of tea craftsmanship, taste and elegance, they come in vibrant Dragonfly tins.

TICK TOCK - www.ticktocktea.com
Tick Tock offers a selection of the finest rooibos teas, naturally caffeine free and harvested by hand in South Africa?s magnificent Cedarberg mountains.

The Tick Tock collection includes:

• Smooth and naturally sweet Original rooibos
• Refreshing and uplifting Organic Green rooibos
• Fragrant Earl Grey Rooibos, infused with natural bergamot oil
• Vanilla Chai Rooibos, packed with exotic chai spices
• Warming Lemon and Ginger Rooibos
• Velvety smooth Vanilla Rooibos infused with bourbon vanilla from Madagascar