Founded in 1903, Typhoo is the largest private label tea packer and the second largest tea manufacturer in the UK. Producing 125m teabags a week at its factory in Moreton, Wirral, Typhoo Tea’s current sales value exceeds £80m. With over 60% of the retail branded market, Typhoo Tea produces, markets and distributes the iconic British tea brand Typhoo as well as the authentic Welsh brand Glengettie, Scottish Brand Melrose’s, leading instant tea brand Lift, healthy infusions brand Heath & Heather, speciality tea brand Ridgways of London, London Fruit & Herb as well as coffee brand Red Mountain. Since 2005, Typhoo Tea Ltd has been jointly owned by the Apeejay Surrendra Group (an Indian conglomerate with tea plantations in India, interests in real estate, shipping, hotels, retail and financial services) and Global Tea and Commodities Ltd (a UK conglomerate with tea, coffee; chocolate plantations in Malawi and tea packaging in Mombasa, Kenya).
