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Top 25 Tea exporters based in Sri Lanka
RevenueBase identified 166 tea exporters headquartered in Sri Lanka as of September 2026 and tracks 2,649 professional contacts across them, including 634 with verified work emails. Colombo is the largest hub.
This list covers tea exporters headquartered in Sri Lanka, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. 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 19, 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 tea exporters based in Sri Lanka
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Akbar Brothers (Pvt) Ltd, the largest exporter of Ceylon Tea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Eswaran Brothers; A special blend of values and strength.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1976, the Sri Lanka Tea Board serves as the regulatory and administrative body of the Sri Lankan tea industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A group of tea professionals, fused their entrepreneurial acumen and came together to journey towards a vision of producing the finest Ceylon Tea!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a decade of excellence, innovation and superior quality, we at Basilur take pride in our precious tea leaves and the unique products we offer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One of Sri Lanka’s fastest growing exports companies and ranking among the largest tea exporters HVA Foods Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Offering end to end services in Tea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A front-runner among plantation companies in Sri Lanka, producing high-quality pure Ceylon Tea from sixteen finest tea gardens in Sri Lanka, we take great care to pay attention to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Venture Tea Sri Lanka, a company with a product line to trigger you with a wide range of tea to quench your every day mood.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ranfer Teas Ltd, was established in 1985 for the purpose of exporting Sri Lankan tea in bulk form to the then traditional markets and since then it has gone into exports of value…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Finlays, which was established in Scotland in 1750, opened a branch in Sri Lanka in 1893.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ENRICH Tea & Food Exports (Pvt) Ltd, which began its operations in 2008 as a specialist in the tea and food export industry, traces its origins to Sportsman Tea (Pvt) Ltd, which…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heritage Group offers tea lovers across the world the finest ‘Ceylon tea’ renowned for its untouchable quality, flavor and aroma which have captured the hearts and taste buds of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The first stand-alone tea broking company to be listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, today we are one of the well respected entities in the field, having achieved considerable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Greenfield Bio Plantations, a pioneer producer, marketer and exporter of certified organic produce from Sri Lanka.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Proudly among Sri Lanka's Top 15 tea exporters, with world-class certifications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bio Foods (Pvt) Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Legacy of Excellence since 1989 Since its inception, Expoteas Ceylon has grown consistently to become a premier exporter of the finest Sri Lankan tea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 35 years, Halpewatte Tea has been producing some of the most uniquely, delicious teas to come from Ceylon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In 1975 along the valley of Lumbini Dayapala Jayawardana planted his first tea field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crafting the Finest Ceylon Tea Since 1984 Jafferjee & Sons is a leading producer and global marketer of sustainable, environmentally friendly Ceylon Tea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: tea exporters. 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 tea exporters.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tea exporters, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tea exporters. 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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Tea exporters based in Sri Lanka at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Sri Lanka, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Sri Lanka, over 166 companies.
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 tea exporters, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Sri Lanka whose own description of what they do matches “tea exporters”. 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 tea exporters), 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 tea exporters, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Sri Lanka are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 634 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 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.
Tea exporters by metro
- Tea exporters in Colombo48
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 tea exporters, 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 tea exporters are there based in Sri Lanka?
RevenueBase identified 166 tea exporters headquartered in Sri Lanka as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Dilmah TEA, headquartered in Peliyagoda, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tea exporters?
Colombo leads with 48 headquartered companies, followed by Kelaniya (7) and Galle (6).
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 634 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 166 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 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.