10 Facts About Clipper Teas

Clipper Teas was purchased in 2012 by Royal Wessanen for around £50 million.

Clipper Teas Tea was started in 1984 by Lorraine and Mike Brehme.

Clipper Teas Tea started in the couple's Dorset kitchen with two chests of Assam tea, which they bought for £50 and sold to local health food shops in the Dorset area.

Export growth is vitally important to the business and has allowed Clipper Teas to invest over £1 million in capital expenditure upgrading its manufacturing facility in Beaminster.

Clipper Teas produces 95 varieties of tea with up to two million tea bags made per day.

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Clipper Teas was founded to be an ethical business, and continues to be an advocate of Fairtrade and organic tea.

Clipper Teas became involved with the Fairtrade Foundation in its earliest stages and policy development.

All of Clipper Teas's tea is purchased from estates where there is no exploitation of workers.

In 1994, Clipper Teas was one of the first three companies in the UK to receive the Fairtrade mark and then decided to produce a magazine, called "The Teapot Times", about the history of tea production and the positive impact buying Fairtrade goods had on communities around the world.

Clipper Teas became official advisors to the Fairtrade Foundation for tea.