Afri Tea and Coffee Blenders (1963) Ltd.

Established in 1963 as Brookebond Tanganyika Ltd, managed by London based Brookebond group of companies until it changed ownership to Tanzania Tea Blenders Ltd run by the Government through the Tanzania Tea Authority (T.T.A). In September 2002, the Government sold it to a private company which later changed its name to Tanzania Tea Blenders (2002) Ltd. In October 2008, the company changed its name to Afri Tea and Coffee Blenders (1963) Ltd.

Afri Tea and Coffee Blenders (1963) Ltd operates in 11 regions in Tanzania with 9 Branches & 1 Agent, and supplies to all conventional supermarkets, discount stores, wholesalers, retailers and hotels & institutions.

Afri Tea and Coffee Blenders (1963) gets its supplies from Lupembe Tea Estate in Njombe, Iringa region, where high quality clonel tea is grown, the Mponde Tea Factory in Lushoto, Tanga region and Unilever Teas. The company’s Africafe is an internationally acclaimed instant coffee. According to the company, Africafe is the only packed instant coffee exported to the Japanese market from East Africa.

The Factory has a capacity of more than 3000MT per annum for tea, a capacity of more than 300MT per year for Instant Coffee powder and 750 MT per year for roasted and ground coffee.

The company has an IMO certificate for Processing & Marketing of Organic products. The company became an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company in April 2008.

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