Ahmad Tea of London draws upon 4 generations of experience in the tea trade to produce a range of tea bags, loose teas and gifts. All are available in a variety of fine quality speciality black tea blends, green teas, fruity flavoured teas and herbal & fruit infusions.

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.

Camellia Plc is an international group, listed on the London Stock Exchange and employs over 73,000 people worldwide. Camellia's interests include Agriculture and Horticulture, Private Banking and Financial Services, Food Storage and Distribution and Engineering.

The Company has tea plantation and tea factory interests in Bangladesh (Duncan Brothers), Darjeeling, Assam and the Doars in India (Goodricke Group), Kenya (Eastern Produce Kenya) and Malawi (Eastern Produce Malawi). The Company is the second largest private producer of tea in the world and produces approximately 90 million kilos of high quality tea a year, has an instant tea factory in India and also supplies packet tea in India.

Our products have a number of certifications including Rain Forest Alliance, Fairtrade (Processor and Exporter), UTZ, Ethical Tea Partnership, ISO 22000, PAS 220 and HAACP and we are the winner of the Unilever winning through sustainability award and East African Environmental Excellence Award.

At Clipper we believe that it?s what?s on the inside that counts.

Clipper products are made with pure ingredients and a clear conscience. We use only the highest-quality sources, add nothing artificial and strive to improve the quality of our workers.  

We want our customers to have a great tasting cup of tea, and be secure in the knowledge that our ethics will make it a comforting choice in more than just taste; that what they are drinking has been naturally sourced and treated with respect.

Established in 1984 with just 2 chests of the finest Assam teas, we have been innovators in the hot drinks market for the last 30 years. We have led the way in green, white and organic teas and infusions and we were the first tea in the UK to carry the Fairtrade Mark and are the UK?s No 1 Fairtrade tea brand.

Today we are sold in 50 countries across the world but we still blend all of our tea on site in Dorset, where we have 85 permanent employees.

A family run firm of tea and coffee merchants established in 1888. All our tea tasting, blending and packing is done in-house. We have a wide range of retail and catering products and complimentary ancillaries. Ask about our speciality teas and coffees. We have a firm base in the south west of England, and also provide a postal service for individual customers outside the region.

Finlay Beverages, as part of Finlay's, is a wholly owned subsidiary of John Swire & Sons Limited. The group's 250 year heritage has centred on its core asset, tea plantations in Africa and the Indian sub continent. We have been packing tea for the UK market for over 100 years and are now the UK's largest private label and food service industry packer/supplier. Finlay Beverages utilises its group knowledge and expertise to blend and pack high quality standard black teas, speciality teas, and fruit & herbal infusions in modern well-equipped production facilities in Yorkshire. For over 250 years Finlay's have built a legacy of real social and environmental responsibility. Embracing our responsibilities means commitment to high standards of sustainability within our business and acting for change outside our borders. In line with our standards, all our products are supplied under the Ethical Tea Partnership and Fairtrade mark with high quality certified Organic teas also being produced.

IMPORIENT (UK) LTD is one of the United Kingdom?s leading independent tea companies, with roots extending back over 140 years. From our offices in London, UK and Mombasa, Kenya, we export more than 36 million kilos of tea worldwide each year and have grown to become one of the top three largest exporters of tea from East Africa.

In addition to our global trading and packaging activities, we also own the Pfunda tea estate in Rwanda and are, therefore, one of a select few tea companies to be intricately involved in every stage of the tea sales process; from point-of-origin through to point-of-sale.

At the heart of our business, is an uncompromising attitude towards quality, service and ethics. This is reflected in the taste of our best-in-class Premium Blend Fairtrade Tea and of our new Natural Infusions range, launched in 2010.

Since 2004, we have been proactively supporting the Noel Orphanage, which is situated directly opposite our Rwandan tea plantation and houses nearly 700 children ? many of whom are victims of the Rwandan genocide.

Birchall is East Africa's finest tea. Expertly developed by the fifth generation of Captain Birchall Graham's family, Birchall?s award-winning collection of single estate and blended teas are sourced exclusively from estates across East Africa, including from the family?s own Pfunda Tea Estate in Rwanda, which is acknowledged as one of the most inspired and innovative tea gardens in the world.

 The unique range was conceived to celebrate the tea planting tradition started by Captain Birchall Graham in 1872, which continues today at the Pfunda Tea Estate.  Pfunda is acknowledged as one of the most inspired and innovative tea gardens in East Africa with a strict adherence to sustainable methods and a singular vision for producing exceptional tea without compromise. Perfection to a Tea.

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.

Newby Teas (U.K.) Ltd is part of the family-owned N. Sethia group, a business with over three generations· experience in the tea industry. The tea market by 1998 needed an innovative concept and Newby was the first tea company in the world to offer its premium quality teas to the general consumer market at affordable prices. Beginning with a range of 12 teas, Newby Teas has developed into a global force with more than 100 products and a presence in more than a dozen countries.

At Newby, we believe in offering uncompromising quality across the whole spectrum: whether supplying to major retailers and catering service providers or famous name restaurants and international 5-star hotels, Newby never compromises on quality.

The excellent quality of our tea is at the centre of everything Newby does. Newby takes great care in selecting the best traditional black and green teas, herbals and infusions, as well as creating exciting new flavours. We buy only at the prime of the season from selected gardens and maintain a rigorous quality control procedure.

Newby·s packaging is unique not only in its design but also in the level of protection it affords to the tea, ensuring that Newby tea reaches the customer with its freshness, flavour and fragrance retained.

We are proud that Newby has won awards around the world for Excellence in Packaging Design, Top Beverage Supplier to HoReCa and Gold Medals for our outstanding tea quality in World Food Exhibitions.

Please visit our website to view our product range and find out more about Newby Teas

Northern Tea Merchants is a privately owned, independent business established in 1959.

We blend a wide range of teas (including FairTrade) and manufacture them into teabags for supply internationally under our own brands and also customers' own label.

Our products are sold at retail, wholesale and catering levels and we also operate a mail order service.

Our Sales Department can also be contacted via the above address or fax numbers or the above email address.

For more information on our products, please visit our website at www.northern-tea.com

Herbs, spices and botanicals sourced with integrity – since 1982. For more than 40 years we have grown, sourced and supplied the UK's largest range of high-quality organic botanicals for a diverse range of customers in the food and beverage, cosmetic, medicinal, petfood and animal feed markets. We source from more than 60 countries and our customers are global, ranging from start-ups to multi-national corporations. Tea and infusions are the largest part of our business by volume and value, and our offer is comprehensive. We draw on more than 30 years of experience to offer exceptional raw materials often with traceability to origin, bespoke blend development and manufacture (NPD and EPD), as well as white label, and toll processing, such as cutting and blending. We are certified BRCGS at grade A+ and as well as being 100% organic, we offer an extensive range of FLO Fairtrade, Fair For Life and FairWild ingredients.

Pukka Herbs began in 2001 after Sebastian Pole met Tim Westwell. Sebastian was an ambitious herbalist who wanted to change the world through introducing people to the power of herbs. Tim had been looking to step out of the corporate world to find a way to combine his passion to contribute to a more positive world with his business skills. They quickly realised they had a shared vision. Today over a million cups of Pukka tea are drunk every day. Pukka also makes a range of supplements using the same pharmacopeia grade, ethically traded organic herbs used in teas.

Pukka Herbs currently (at October 2016) has 40 blends of tea. These include a ranges of green teas using matcha, herbal teas and speciality black teas.

Pukka blends its teas not just for taste, but also for wellbeing. All teas are blended using the principles of Ayurveda, an ancient Indian holistic philosophy that shows how to live a healthy, wholesome and more fulfilled life by balancing mind, body and spirit.

As well as being organic, Pukka has also worked hard to pioneer new ways to ensure that the organisation is making a genuine contribution to global equality, poverty and the environment. For example, Pukka is working with FairWild guaranteeing that the plants used from the wild have been harvested in a sustainable way and that the collectors have been paid fairly for their work. All Pukka?s teas are now certified as ?fair? through a new fair trade scheme called ?Fair for Life?. Fair for Life is one of the fairest, most equitable and transparent fair trade systems in the world. It guarantees that everyone who Pukka touches, from crop to cup across the globe, is treated fairly, equitably and transparently. And as a member of 1% for the Planet, Pukka gives 1% of its turnover to support environmental causes.

More information about Pukka?s range of 40 teas is available here: www.pukkaherbs.com/pukka-products/pukka-teas

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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.

Ringtons is a British tea and coffee merchant which was established in 1907 by Samuel Smith who sold tea door to door via horse and cart.

Today the family business still offers a traditional doorstep delivery service to over 260,000 customers throughout the UK.

Ringtons also operates an ecommerce website and business-to-business division Ringtons Beverages, while its UK factory buys and packs for private and own label customers.

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

Tetley has been in the business of tea for more than a century. Since 2000 we've been owned by Tata Tea, themselves part of the Tata Group, one of India's largest and most respected companies. Our worldwide headquarters are in Greenford, Middlesex and we have offices in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, South Africa and the USA.

Tea is all we do and we don't make tea for anyone else. Every year we blend and pack over 60 branded teas for sale in over 40 countries. We pride ourselves on having a tea to suit all tastes and moods - from every day black teas to fruit and herbals, iced and Ready to Drink. How do you take yours?

Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate is an independent family business based in the heart of Yorkshire. Taylors of Harrogate blends and packs more than 50 different speciality teas, including Yorkshire Tea. We even blend a tea to suit your water, so that you get the same Yorkshire Tea taste whether your water is soft or hard. You can also enjoy many of our teas in the traditional elegant surroundings of our six Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms based in Yorkshire. A real treat.

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

Our story began in 1886 when Walter Whittard opened his tea and coff ee store on London?s Fleet Street. His philosophy was always to Buy The Best, sourcing the highest quality teas and coffees, then blending them to his customers? specifications.

Over 125 years later, we remain true to Walter?s founding philosophy. We?re still the blending and tasting experts, offering a truly unique range of exclusive and innovative blends. We have over 130 varieties of tea, from time-honoured classics to some of the world?s rarest, and over 20 varieties of freshly roasted coff ee beans.

We have over 60 stores in the UK and online shops in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and the US.

For further information visit the Whittard website at: www.whittard.co.uk or call Customer Services on 0800 015 4395 for your nearest store, or from overseas +44 (0) 1993 223 733 .

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Williamson Tea has been growing and selling the finest quality teas in the world since 1869. Not only do we have over 135 years experience of buying and blending teas from all round the world but we also own tea farms in Kenya, generally regarded as producing Premium quality. Our farms have Fair Trade approval and several awards for tea excellence, whilst our experienced team of tasters and blenders offer unparalleled service and expertise, sourcing teas from all round the globe. Distributing the finest teas from our UK factory, this family run business keeps all the traditions and values that has made the Williamson Tea name so special, whilst embracing new fashions in tea drinking. As part of our service we can provide Own label packing in teabag, tagged/envelope and loose tea formats. As a result we offer the very best quality tea to our customers. For a special tea drink Williamson Tea.