Tetley Tea

Tetley is the world’s second largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. It was founded in 1822 by two brothers, who sold salt from a horse in England, when they sold tea it was so successful they set up as tea merchants. Their tea company was the first company to sell tea in tea bags in the United Kingdom in 1953. Of course that company was bought out in 2000 with an insane amount of money, somewhere around $ 300 million.
I use three different brands of tea to keep me from getting burnt out on one brand or tea in general and Tetley is right up there with Lipton. Lipton is only slightly stronger in tea flavor and it makes a very clean end product. Tetley tea leaves a very slight fine residue in the end product but the flavor is still incredibly good. Tetley and Lipton are somewhat stronger in tea flavor than Luzianne brand and as a result I use just a little more sugar to offset it. Luzianne can use less sugar because it is a weaker blend.
My opinion is that Tetley and Lipton could tie for my favorite tea brand. Luzianne probably would be better if I change my tea making method and use MORE tea, but that just isn’t right. I make all my tea the same way with the exception of a smidgen less sugar in the Luzianne and that puts Luzianne in 3^rd place because the end product is very good, but it is weaker and you get more of the sugar experience than the tea.
Tetley had an unique advertising campaign for Europe that centered around animated characters called the Tetley Tea Folk and some commercials featured Kim Cattrall.