COLOMBO LIAISON OFFICE
Our team in Colombo acts as a link between our UK headquarters and the various tea supply and packing operations in Sri Lanka, one of the most revered tea producing nations. This mountainous island off India is where our supply operation started many years ago and the 30-strong team who work there still play a vital in our global enterprise.
The office’s Tea Department tastes around 12,000 samples each week to ensure we buy the very best from the famous Colombo tea auction, while also performing crucial quality control checks. The team oversees production from the packing factories on the island which ship around 7 million kg of Ahmad Tea per year.
HISTORY
Located off the coast of Southern India, the mountainous tropical island of Sri Lanka is the fourth biggest producer of tea in the world and the biggest exporter of ‘Orthodox ‘ tea – the type that is typically used for loose leaf products.
Because of the island’s mountainous terrain, Sri Lanka can offer teas in a very wide range of flavours and colours – each level produces teas of unique character that are blended together for wonderfully varied results Tea from Sri Lanka is known as Ceylon which, until 1972 was actually the name of the country. The story of Ceylon Tea begins with the Coffee Blight which wiped the Island’s coffee plantations in the late 1860s.
Having found success growing tea in Northern India, a Scotsman called James Taylor began commercial cultivation in 1867 in a small plot of some 19 acres on an estate called Loolecoondera. From these humble beginnings, the tea industry of Sri Lanka has flourished producing some of the finest teas in the world.
SRI LANKA LIAISON OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
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ADDRESS
303, R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo 3, 00300 Sri Lanka.
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PHONE
+94112372272
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EMAIL
ahmadtea@ahmadteasl.net
STORY OF PREMIUM TEA
CEYLON TEA
Strange as it may seem, the story of Ceylon Tea begins with coffee. The first tea bushes of commercial quantity were planted in Sri Lanka by James Taylor, at Loolecondera Estate in Lower Hewaheta in the Kandy district, in 1867.
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