One of the largest exporters of tea from Sri Lanka today, Imperial Teas began life as a small dedicated team’s strong drive to supply the world Pure Ceylon Tea. Our young company was founded in 1994 with just fifteen staff. Our focus was our marketing - mainly of the packetted tea segment, directed at the CIS countries.

The dawn of 1995 saw the launch of ‘IMPRA’ our own brand name and flagship product to the CIS Countries. Continuous brand promotion and commitment to quality established the brand "Impra" in these markets.

‘MIAD’ was the next star to emerge in 1996, with emphasis on bulk packaging aimed at the Middle Eastern market, getting established in Dubai, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan & Syria. During the first year of its operation, Imperial Teas exported 2,731,090.0kgs and was placed as the 24th largest exporter in the country.

We next consolidated our brand in many regions in Russia and in some of the CIS countries for high quality teas packaged under the Impra brand. With high quality products at an affordable price to its customers, Impra brand became a household name in the former Soviet Union by the end of 1995.

During the years 1996 and 1997, we consolidated our position further by moving into all CIS countries as a recognizable product, our striking logo and color-coded packaging was our weapon for recognition. By the end of the year 1997, Imperial Teas was rated as the 9th largest tea exporter in Sri Lanka.

During the year 1998, the company started moving into other markets including Japan, USA, Australia, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Lebanon. The company moved to the position of 5th largest exporter of tea.

1999 saw Imperial Teas build it's own modern, state-of-the-art tea processing factory and office complex in the outskirts of Colombo city at Peliyagoda, located close to most of the infrastructure facilities in the Island.

The factory is equipped with modern tea storing facilities, and sophisticated cleaning equipment, blending drums and other related packing machines, to protect the quality of tea, and maintain the highest of hygienic standards. A well-equipped designing department and packing material development processing and supplying department is linked to the factory, for supply of higher standard packing materials needed for production. "Impra" is now sold in over 60 countries through a strong distributor network with continuous growth in the consumer markets.

Imperial teas spend in excess of US $ 600,000.00 annually on international media and advertising promotions in all exporting countries. With constant brand visibility, all media is used extensively to promote ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’.

Recognized for our distinct blended flavor, Impra Tea now stands firm as the second largest packetted tea exporter of Sri Lanka. Our outstanding track record is listed below.

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