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Specialty tea distributors: the worldwide list
RevenueBase identified 1,669 specialty tea distributors across the 10 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, and tracks 14,315 professional contacts across them, including 2,696 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This is the worldwide list of specialty tea distributors: the 10 country lists RevenueBase publishes for the category, summed and ranked as one. The company count is that sum, not a census of every company on earth; a country with no published list is not counted. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 18, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest specialty tea distributors across the 10 countries with a published list
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 846 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Finlays is a global B2B supplier of tea, coffee and botanical ingredients and solutions to many of the world’s best-loved beverage brands, retailers and foodservice operators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 533 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Great tea, friendly stores and above-and-beyond customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 523 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1997, Teavana offers new tea enthusiasts and tea connoisseurs alike it’s “Heaven of Tea” retail experience where passionate and knowledgeable “Teaologists” engage and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 404 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dilmah is unique; a brand that is founded on a passionate commitment to quality and authenticity in tea, it is also a part of a philosophy that goes beyond commerce in seeing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 385 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1996, we’ve been making the everyday extraordinary through tea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Whittard in a Tea Cup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As India's largest tea brand owners and exporters, Madhu Jayanti International Private Limited has been a testament of quality and innovation for over 80 years now.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Spice & Tea Exchange® Mission: “Creating & sharing the experience of a more flavorful life.” The Spice & Tea Exchange® was founded in 2008 by a group of talented individuals…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bigelow Tea was founded by Ruth Campbell Bigelow 80 years ago in 1945.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ringtons Ltd - tea and coffee producer and supplier since 1907.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company, based in Tampa, Fla.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From the lush greenery of India's hilly tea estates, a pleasant journey began over 80 years ago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Eswaran Brothers; A special blend of values and strength.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Named in The Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work, we are a B Corp Certified, independent, award winning tea company on a mission to spread happiness & reimagine tea!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Red Diamond, perfection is our craft, real coffee and tea – our creed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in London in Newby employs the very highest standards found in tea production today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Starwest Botanicals – where we blend passion with precision to craft organic herbs, spices, and teas of unparalleled quality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the vanguard source of direct trade organic tea and botanicals; a wellspring of inspiration to tasters like you through devotion to our craft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alois Dallmayr oHG - Kaffee in Vollendung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Republic of Tea is a progressive and socially conscious business recognized for being the leading purveyor of nearly 400 all-natural premium teas, herbs and gifts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anverally & Sons, established in 1890, is a legacy-rich tea company with over 135 years of excellence in producing and exporting premium teas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hälssen & Lyon is one of Europe's leading tea companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1869, Bogawantalawa Teas has achieved a distinguished position as the world’s first tea growing, manufacturing, and marketing company to offer Climate Positive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITO EN (North America) INC, a subsidiary of ITO EN LTD, is an beverage industry leader dedicated to creating authentic products that embody the company’s five principles of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: specialty tea distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names specialty tea distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty tea distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty tea distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Specialty tea distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 18, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among specialty tea distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- This worldwide list is the sum of the 10 country lists RevenueBase publishes for specialty tea distributors, largest first: the United States, India, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Sri Lanka, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium. Its company and contact totals add up those lists, so they understate the true worldwide figures: a country with no published list is not counted. The ranked table is exact across the countries covered, the largest companies of every country list ranked together with duplicates removed.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “specialty tea distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names specialty tea distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among specialty tea distributors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,696 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph on September 18, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Specialty tea distributors by location
10 lists · largest firstEvery Specialty tea distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date; the worldwide figures above are the sum of the 10 country lists.
Countries
- Specialty tea distributors based in the United States530
- Specialty tea distributors based in India324
- Specialty tea distributors based in the United Kingdom177
- Specialty tea distributors based in France141
- Specialty tea distributors based in Canada123
- Specialty tea distributors based in Germany102
- Specialty tea distributors based in Sri Lanka86
- Specialty tea distributors based in Australia75
- Specialty tea distributors based in the Netherlands74
- Specialty tea distributors based in Belgium37
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names specialty tea distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many specialty tea distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,669 specialty tea distributors across the 10 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code. The figure is the sum of those country lists, not a census of every company worldwide.
What is the largest company on this list?
Finlays, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most specialty tea distributors?
The United States leads with 530 companies, followed by India (324) and the United Kingdom (177). Every country with a published specialty tea distributors list is linked on this page.
Which city has the most specialty tea distributors?
London leads with 60 headquartered companies, followed by Kolkata (35) and Toronto (28).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,696 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,669 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph on September 18, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.