Facing the Eastern slopes of the choicest tea growing region of Sri Lanka, “Bogawantalawa” well known as the “Golden Valley of Ceylon Tea” has been the home of the finest Ceylon Tea since 1869. With over 150 years of expertise and heritage, the passion for tea is continued by Bogawantalawa Tea Estates PLC (BTE) as one of the single largest producers of tea in Sri Lanka. Bogawantalawa is the world’s first Tea growing Manufacturing and marketing company offering Uncompensated Climate Positive teas certified for product and facility and have made sustainability a way of life in the company.
BTE manages 13 estates spread over 3500 hectares of land, producing over 7 million kilos of teas per annum from handpicked tea leaves of over 50 million carefully nurtured tea bushes bordered by verdant forests. Certified by the Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade Certification, SA 8000, Ethical Tea Partnership, HACCP, ISO 9001-2000 and BRC (British Resort Consortium) BTE is committed towards the sustainable management of natural resources and have planted over 140,000 trees to this effect and aim to plant 1,000,000 trees by the year 2018. BTE also has approximately 500 Hectares of rubber and 750 Hectares of palm oil in various stages of maturity.
The Tea Export and Value Added Service arm, Bogawantalawa Tea Ceylon Pvt Ltd (BTC) has the distinction of being sought after, as a valuable private label partner for several leading brands. Through its state of the art production facilities, the company has the in-house capability to produce a range of blends from a vast variety of teas, create many choices of flavoured tea, and design consumer friendly packaging options. BTC is one of the largest and preferred suppliers of tea and tea related products such as Herbal, Fruit and spice blends from Sri Lanka to many prestigious global supermarket chains and large scale food & beverage distributors.
Bogawantalawa’s operations extend beyond tea growing and marketing to Rubber & Oil Palm plantations in low country estates and Agroforestry, making it one of the most diversified plantation companies in Sri Lanka.
