14 Facts About Lipton

Lipton is a British brand of tea, owned by Ekaterra.

Lipton was a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, later sold to Argyll Foods, after which the company sold only tea.

Lipton is named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton, who founded it in 1890.

In 1890 Lipton purchased tea gardens in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, from where he packaged and sold the first Lipton tea.

Lipton teas are a blend selected from many different plantations around the world, from well-known producing countries including Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, and China.

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On 6 May 2009, Lipton received a Corporate Green Globe Award for its work with the Rainforest Alliance.

Lipton Yellow Label is a blend of several types of tea, sold both in tea bags and as open tea, rolled into small leaves like gunpowder green tea.

Brisk, formerly Lipton Brisk, is an iced tea brand distributed primarily in North America as a joint venture between Lipton and PepsiCo.

Lipton produces tea using the tetrahedral bag format as seen in other tea brands.

Lipton Clear was launched in five variants, Earl Grey Tea, English Breakfast Tea, Peach Mango Tea, Green Tea Mandarin Orange, Mint and Camomile Tea.

Available in over 110 countries, Lipton is particularly popular in Europe, North America, Africa and the Middle East, parts of Asia and Australasia as well as Latin America, and the Caribbean.

In 1914, Lipton's tea were one of the sponsors for the first flight from Melbourne to Sydney by French aviator Maurice Guillaux, at the time the longest air mail and air freight flight in the world.

Lipton made commercials starring The Muppets for the 2014 Disney film Muppets Most Wanted.

The point of Lipton's Seat is reached by climbing for around 8 km surrounded by peaceful green tea plantations and an occasional colourful tea plucker.