- Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea is a
black tea blend produced by Taylors ofHarrogate , one of the few remaining familytea andcoffee merchants in theUnited Kingdom .The company was founded in
1886 byYorkshire tea merchant Charles Taylor and has a reputation for producing high-quality teasFact|date=September 2008. Blended fromIndia n,Africa n, andSri Lanka n teas, it is available in four varieties:*original Yorkshire Tea,
*Yorkshire Tea forHard Water ,
*luxury blend Yorkshire Gold, and
*Decaffeinated (currently only available in bags).When Safeway was taken over by Yorkshire-based
Morrisons in 2004, commentators in the London press noted the amount of shelf space in one former Safeway store that was suddenly given over to Yorkshire Tea. [cite news
title = Safeway stayaway
url = http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article471973.ece
publisher = Timesonline
date =2004-08-20
accessdate = 2007-07-15]The Yorkshire Tea brand is currently being extended to include a range of cakes, biscuits, and fruit loaves, sold as being complementary to drinking tea. Yorkshire Tea Biscuits are a "T"-shaped
shortbread for dunking.In 2007 Yorkshire Tea launched a new Web site on tea [http://www.bestteainbritain.co.uk] . This Web site includes a number of items, including a shop from which you can buy gifts such as mugs and aprons.
"Heartbeat"
The company sponsored
ITV1 's60's -set drama "Heartbeat" for several years.In 2007, a new TV campaign was created using the line "Try It, You'll See". The voice on the commercials is Bill Nighy. The campaign was created by the agency LOVE, who are based in Manchester, England.
ee also
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Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate External links
* [http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/ Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea website]
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