About – Regency Teas (PVT) LTD

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Who We Are

Regency Teas (Pvt) Ltd., was founded in 1997 by a group of tea enthusiasts, who at the time were firmly established in the plantation management sector. The desire to present tea loving consumers worldwide, a unique plantation fresh ‘cuppa’ motivated these tea specialists to give birth to Regency Teas.

The Company’s highly experienced team of professional tea tasters grade over 8,000 lots of tea per week & taste over 500 cups of tea per day, identifying & selecting the right type of teas to suit different markets around the world. They are committed to achieve the highest required product standards at the most competitive price, which they take great pride in delivering to each and every client.

Since inception Regency Teas has been packing tea under its flagship brand ‘Hyleys’. The wide range of teas under the Hyleys portfolio includes; classic black & green tea as well as specialty blends with flavours and herbs. The Company sources these flavors and herbs from various countries worldwide and is one of the few tea exporters in Sri Lanka to have its own cold storage facility especially for herbs.

Hyleys recently launched several functional & end-user benefit teas consisting of 100% natural ingredients in stride with latest global consumer trends. These innovative products have special packaging & unique customer appeal, adding further value to ‘taste & health’ aspects.

Regency Teas export to over 25 countries worldwide and our strongest outreach is in North America and Eastern Europe.

On the manufacturing front, the Company operates a production plant of 90,000 square feet with modern infrastructure, tea packaging machinery and highly skilled staff. Annually, the factory produces 3,500 metric tons of tea in value added form under strict Food Safety Management Systems and guidelines. The plant is certified through the Sri Lanka Tea Board and Bureau Veritas for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 which is a recognized body of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). The Company is also licensed to manufacture products certified by Kosher and Organic bodies.

The Company has a modern office with extensive tea tasting facilities located at the boundary of the commercial capital, Colombo. Their tea packaging and storage facility is equipped with tea cleaning technology, high speed tea bagging machines and automated production lines. Their tea bagging facility boasts of the latest tea bagging machines from Germany & Italy producing staple free tea bags, as well as micro-filter Pyramid tea bags. With a combined production capacity of 2.75 million tea bags per day, Regency Teas is one of the top exporters of tea bags out of Sri Lanka.