Haelssen & Lyon was founded in 1879, and just celebrated its125th anniversary. The firm is one of the largest and most well respected tea importers and exporters of fine teas. Haelssen & Lyon´s product line includes an extensive selection of premium quality teas from all origins, including black, green, flavoured and instant teas as well as herbal and fruit infusions.

Various certificates, such as ISO, HACCP, NOP, EU-Organic, IFS, and Kosher underline the company's high standards of product safety and quality control. "Haelssen & Lyon offers a comprehensive selection of teas under one roof." The option of having all teas packed into nearly any possible packaging configuration makes Haelssen & Lyon the perfect one stop shopping solution. The company combines tradition, innovation, solutions and know how. What can this company do for you?

Haelssen & Lyon GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Tel: 01149-40-36 14 30
Website www.Haelssen-Lyon.com or contact Mr. Holger Lohs at Hlohs@haelssen-lyon.de USA Tel: 1-917-747-9241 (est)

Universal Commodities (Tea) Trading Inc. is based in Bronxville, New York, We were formed in 1990 by a group of tea-experts, who, among them, have over a century of tea-importing and sourcing experience. We have first-hand knowledge of the entire tea supply chain: cultivation, processing, shipping, and financing. Yet, at the same time, we are a relatively young team. This combination of relative youth and years of experience gives us a unique advantage. While our links with customers and suppliers are long and well-established, we can still offer them continuity and consistency far into the future.

We hold with the time-honored values of the tea-industry - quality, trust, integrity, loyalty and service. Indeed our word is our bond. A phone call or a handshake means as much in this business as a written contract, and sometimes more. So while we move aggressively into the 21st century, utilizing the latest technology and the fastest methods of operation, we strive to retain the often lost courtesies of the past. Our goal is to invest in the future and to expand our business steadily while always maintaining the highest values of the tea industry.
We represent specialty/gourmet tea providers, and major tea growers and exporters worldwide and sell to all packers, large and small.

Teegarten is a tea importing company with subsidiaries in Europe and the United States. We supply premium black, green, white, oolong and pu-reh teas from origin. We also offer several decaffeinated whole leaf and fine cut teas, roibush and honeybush herbal teas, and organic regular and decaffeinated teas.

Teegarten's founder and CEO, Stephan Kroemer, was influenced by his father, Mr. Horst Kroemer, a tea taster for 45 years. Stephan began his tea training in 1979 in Hamburg, Germany. He started Teegarten Vienna in 1992. Teegarten Vienna is successfully supplying specialty teas to distributors, wholesalers, and franchising systems in Europe and the US, as well as to the ice tea and tea bag industries. In 2004, Teegarten US was founded to support the growing US market. Karen Klubertanz oversees Teegarten's US office.
Teegarten is proud to be a sponsor of STI's Eighth Annual Specialty Tea Symposium. We are passionate about tea, and welcome you to share our fascinating journey.

Established in 1912, Henry P. Thomson, Inc. is one of the oldest and largest tea importers currently operating in the United States.

Our headquarters are located in New Jersey, but we maintain purchasing offices in Hefei, China and Obera, Argentina. For those origins where we do not maintain our own offices, we either correspond directly with the producers or have an exclusive relationship with an exporting agent.

While many of our clients prefer to purchase container load quantities delivered directly to their facilities, we also maintain sizable inventories at public warehouses in New Orleans, LA, Elizabeth, NJ and Rotterdam, Netherlands. This allows for smaller deliveries and also enables us to guarantee product quality and availability for our larger customers.

If your firm is currently buying tea, or is planning to do so in the future, you could have no partner better able to help you establish and maintain quality parameters, secure a consistent source of supply and provide for timely delivery of your product. Contact us at mail@hpthomson.com

The BUNN Corporation is a leader in the beverage equipment industry with high quality, innovative products. Headquartered in Springfield, Illinois, BUNN sells its retail and commercial beverage equipment through distributors worldwide. BUNN has plants and warehouses in Illinois, Iowa, the New York metro area, and California, as well as in Canada.

BUNN's high quality products include the following: home and commercial coffee brewers including the new My Cafe pod brewer for coffee and tea; iced tea and iced coffee brewers; coffee grinders; specialty drink equipment including hot powdered, frozen drinks and juice; precise temperature water systems; water quality systems and home and commercial coffee filters, accessories, and parts.

Exceptional customer service and support are synonymous with the BUNN name. Special services include beverage program consulting, service management programs and training programs (including asset tracking), make-to-order customer specified equipment (includes special labeling and equipment identification). Visit www.bunn.com for more information.

Cirqua is the US market leader in water treatment equipment and service for the tea, coffee and specialty beverage industries. We improve our customer's products by specializing in the custom formulation of the 98.5% of a beverage that is normally ignored….the water. Cirqua is dedicated to the belief that one size or treatment technique does not fit all, and the only way to reliably address the individual user's needs is by designing, manufacturing, applying and maintaining properly customized approaches. Simply put, we provide water as a brand-enhancing ingredient of a beverage, not as an uncontrolled dilutent. And, we do this in a manner that's transparent to the consumer.
Contact Info: 1-800-350-9283 orwww.cirqua.com