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Article: PG Tips its hat to ethical tea: PG Tips was the UK's first major food and drink brand to take an ethical stance. Stefan Chomka reports from its vast Kenya plantation.(ethical sourcing)(Company overview)
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- May 3, 2008
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From the air, the tea plantation appears as a vast green oasis in an otherwise arid landscape. Its full scale becomes even more apparent once you have driven through the 13,500 hectare estate having landed on its private air strip--the distance from the first tea bush to the last is 75km and the journey takes you past the hospitals, houses and schools that service a population of some 100,000.
It's big and it needs to be. This is Kericho, the Kenyan tea plantation where Unilever, the world's biggest tea company, sources much of the black tea for the world's biggest tea brand, Lipton Yellow Label, as well as the UK's number one tea brand PG Tips. The plantation ...