Tanganda Tea

Tanganda Tea

Group, a major Zimbabwean company which also owns hotels and department stores in southern Africa.

Tanganda is based in Mutare (formerly Umtali) in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). The first tea bushes planted in Zimbabwe originated from a box of seeds smuggled out of India in 1924 by Mrs Florence Phillips, a tea-planter’s wife from Assam, and were planted near Chipinge. The success of the harvest encouraged the formation of a company, Ward and Phillips (Pty) Ltd, which owned New Year's Gift and Ratelshoek Estates near Chipinge, and which formed the nucleus of the Tanganda Tea company. The bulk of the company's tea is still grown around Chipinge, although the company now buys in substantial amounts of tea from small-scale independent growers.

Tanganda Tea is the best-selling brand of tea in Zimbabwe and central Africa. It exports bulk tea leaves to the rest of the world, and boasts that six out of every ten cups of tea drunk in Britain every day are brewed from a blend containing leaves from Tanganda’s estates.

External links

* [http://www.tanganda.co.zw/ Tanganda Tea company web site]
* [http://community.webshots.com/album/2614378MkqazQMCmG Early photos of the Tanganda estates]


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