Camellia: a name that means tea.(analysis of tea industry)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, September, 2004 by Gordon-Ham, Georgina

The Camellia Legacy

Camellia plc is a conglomerate with diversified interests including tea, coffee, wine, food, beverages, horticultural products, rubber, insurance, investment, banking and financial services, shipping, and much more. But tea, the original trade of the company, is a large share of the business and is located in India and Bangladesh with very large interests in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa. The Group is the largest non-governmental producer of tea in the world with a crop of almost 80 million kilos.

Camellia, the apex company of the Group, was originally set up as comparatively small businesses owned by individual British families who went out to the Middle East in the 19th Century. Its original name was The Sephinjuri Bheel Tea...

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