PLUS | Browns Plantations: Aspiring to be Both Biggest and Best

The executive chairman of Browns Plantations, soon to be the world's largest single-company producer of black tea, joins the Tea Biz Podcast to discuss the challenge of large-scale quality improvements at massive gardens on two continents.

Pradeep Uluwaduge currently oversees three leading plantation companies that manage 49 tea gardens in Sri Lanka as a single brand. The parent company’s acquisitions of Lipton Tea & Infusions plantations in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania, as well as James Finlay Kenya Estates in 2023, will expand Browns’ production capabilities to 87 million kilograms. Terms of the sale, which is expected to close soon, call for Browns to supply Lipton with most of its tea.

Lipton’s Chief Executive Officer, Nathalie Roos, announced the sale, saying, “We are really shifting from volume to quality of tea.”

Supplying quality tea at scale is a challenge Browns Plantations readily accepts.

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