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India was the top producer of tea for nearly a century, but recently China has overtaken India as the top tea producer due to increased land availability. [15] Indian tea companies have acquired a number of iconic foreign tea enterprises including British brands Tetley and Typhoo. [15] India is also the world's largest tea-drinking nation. [15]
McLeod Russel India Ltd is an Indian tea company. It is currently the world's largest tea growing company. [1]It is part of the Williamson Magor Group.It has Thirty One tea estates in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam and Two in the Dooars region of West Bengal, three factories in Vietnam and six estates in Uganda.
[1] [2] It is a part of the Camellia PLC UK – the world's largest private sector tea producer. [citation needed] The four tea producing companies in its fold include Goodricke Group Limited, Stewart Holl (India) Limited, Amgoorie India Limited and Koomber Tea Co. Pvt. Limited. The Group owns 30 gardens and 27 tea factories spread over ...
The UK market is dominated by five brands - PG Tips (owned by Lipton Teas and Infusions), Tetley (owned by Tata Tea Limited), Typhoo (owned by the Indian conglomerate Apeejay Surrendra Group), Twinings (owned by Associated British Foods) and Yorkshire Tea (owned by Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate). Tetley leads the market with 27% share ...
(Top) 1 Gallery of tea varieties from highest consuming countries. 2 See also. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... India: 0.33 kg (0.72 lb) 30
Tea is mainly grown in Asia and Africa, with smaller areas in South America and around the Black and Caspian Seas. The four biggest tea-producing countries are China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, together representing 81% of world tea production.
India's tea industry is the fourth largest in the world, producing $709,000,000 worth of tea. [13] As of 2013 the consumption of green tea in India was growing by over 50% a year. [14] The major tea-producing states in India are: Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Sikkim, Nagaland. [15]
[citation needed] The company had 74 tea gardens and was producing 6.2 crore kilograms of tea a year, two-thirds of it packaged and branded. Towards the end of the year, the tea business was hit by a drought in much of India. In addition, Russia, once the largest buyer of Indian tea, temporarily withdrew from the market.