Our Trade Service 

Canton Tea Co offers a unique menu of loose tea, teabags, organic herbal infusions, bespoke blends, teaware, training and events.

 “I consider Canton Tea to be the best source for the world’s greatest tea and their service is quick and personal.”

         Jason Atherton, Michelin Starred Chef, Pollen Street Social

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It’s Time for Tea

Fine tea is now attracting the attention of leading food service professionals worldwide. The UK’s top hotels, cafes and restaurants are serving fresh, loose leaf tea because they bring a new dimension to their customers’ experience.

The specialist tea market is growing by 25% year on year since 2007 and this trend is set to continue. The key drivers of growth are:

• Consumers trading up: Food-savvy consumers know more and demand more from the quality and provenance of their food and drink. As they discover the wider range of tea, they develop a taste for new, more complex and refined flavour experiences.

• Health benefits: Consumers are increasingly aware of tea’s healthy properties. Western medicine is starting to endorse what the Chinese have believed for 4,000 years: tea has spectacular heath-giving properties.

Our Offer

We are a genuinely independent company. All our directors are shareholders and have funded the business themselves. Our values are authenticity and integrity.

Canton have won numerous Guild of Fine Food Great Taste Awards Gold Stars. Influential US tea review site Teaviews, has consistently rated us in the top three of 275 tea companies worldwide.

Canton Tea’s quality range and service is established in leading retail and food service operations:

HARRODS, HARVEY NICHOLS AND JOHN LEWIS FOOD HALLS 

Our retail tins can be found here in these destination stores

CHINA TANG, THE DORCHESTER 

We supply Sir David Tang’s landmark restaurant.

POLLEN STREET SOCIAL 

Canton Tea Co has created a hugely popular, bespoke Pollen Street Social Blend. Michelin-starred chef, Jason Atherton says, “I consider Canton Tea to be the best source for the world’s greatest tea and their service is quick and personal.”

PETERSHAM NURSERIES

Canton Tea Co has been the sole tea supplier to Richmond’s Petersham Nurseries since 2009.

MITCHELLS & BUTLERS

M&B opened Tuk Cho with teas only from Canton Tea Co. The first of a new pan Asian restaurant chain.

The Complete Tea Service

• LOOSE LEAF TEA 

  Over 100 fine teas from China, India, Taiwan and Japan.

• CANTON TEA PYRAMIDS 

  Biodegradable, silky pyramid teabags containing our leaf tea and organic herbal infusions.

• TEAWARE 

  Traditional, handmade Yixing teapots, tough ceramic teapots with metal infusers, contemporary Glass Teapots with glass infusers – all available with your brand applied.

• ORGANIC HERBAL INFUSIONS 

  The best herbal infusions and blends: 100% organic and certified by the Soil Association.

• TEA BLENDS 

  Bespoke hand-blended tea: we create your own signature blend or you can choose our own proven performers such as Canton Chai and Canton Breakfast Tea.

• POINT OF SALE 

  Tea Menus, Tea Storage and Display, Booklets and Post Cards.

• TRAINING AND EVENTS 

  Staff training, Tasting events for customers.

If you’d like to know more about serving or selling our whole leaf Chinese tea do call us on 0844 417 6363 or complete the form on our contact page.

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