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Tetley
Over the next 20 years the business continued to grow, taking on Joseph Junior and Samuel Furniss, and the company extended its services to blending and packing, for which it began to build up a considerable following in the United States. In 1888 Robert G Cather, a company partner, persuaded Joseph Tetley & Company that America held opportunities, and established a distribution agreement with Wright & Graham, American agents for Tetley's Teas. These efforts were also to become one of the largest packet tea distributing organisations in the world. It was not until 1953, nearly 33 years after introduction onto the American market, that Tetley introduced the tea bag to the UK.
The last three decades have seen considerable changes of ownership for Tetley. In 1974 J Lyons acquired the Tetley Tea Company and merged it with their Lyons Tea business to form Lyons Tetley Ltd. In 1978 Allied Breweries acquired all the J Lyons’ businesses and then in the mid 1990s, as Allied Domecq, sold them. As part of this process The Tetley Group was formed, and in 2000 the Group was bought by Tata Tea Ltd, one of the world’s largest integrated tea companies. We show Tetley on the Chevrolet LQ Truck that was built in Britain in the early 1930’s.
