Private Label Tea

​Since 1912, Mother Parkers has been providing high quality custom tea blends.  We take great pride in ensuring that every package of tea is the best that it can be. Our team of experts has years of experience blending hot and iced teas to offer a range of options that meet individual retailers’ private label needs. From custom formulations for unique private label product innovations to blend matches for national brands in your market, we deliver solutions.
 
We’ve mastered the artistry and science of blending black, green, herbals, rooibos, white and decaffeinated teas to deliver consistent quality and taste for the most discerning tea consumers. 

Black and Flavored Black Tea

Most commonly used in North American tea bags, black tea represents approximately 90% of the tea consumed in the Western world. Black tea is made from fully-oxidized leaves, which produce a hearty, deep rich flavor in a colored amber brew. Black teas may also be blended with oils, flowers, spices, or herbs to deliver flavored black teas.

Green

Most popular in Asia, green tea is un-oxidized. Green tea is withered, immediately steamed or pan-fired to prevent oxidation, and then rolled and dried to produce a delicate refreshing taste and a light green color. Green tea can be blended extensively with flavors such as lemon and mint.

Herbal Infusions

Sometimes referred to as herbal “tea”, these unique blends do not consist of tea leaves at all. Typically, herbal tea is simply the combination of boiling water and botanical ingredients such as flowers, bark, fruit and leaves. Filled with flavorful, soothing or stimulating herbs, rich with their own healing properties, herbal infusions are a caffeine-free alternative to traditional teas.

Rooibos

Made from the South African Red Bush plant which is grown only in a small area in the Western Cape province of South Africa, Rooibos has been popular in that country for generations and is now consumed in around the world. Rooibos is becoming more popular in Western countries, particularly among health-conscious consumers, due to its high levels of flavonoids (similar to polyphenols). Rooibos tea is also caffeine-free.

White

One of the most rare and fine teas in the world and the least processed of all teas. It is made from the unopened or recently opened buds of the tea plant that are covered in white-coloured hairs. After the new buds are plucked, they are either sun-dried, gently steamed, or oven dried at low temperatures to remove the water content and produce a tea with a mild flavour and natural sweetness.

Decaffeinated Teas

The caffeine is removed from black and green teas without sacrificing flavor.

​Our state-of-the-art production facilities can pack the most popular sizes and package styles to help drive the success of your private label tea program.
Select from a wide variety of multi-machine formats to build a winning private label tea program.

Bag Types:

• Standard square, round, double chamber “flow through”, with or without tag and envelope
• Premium silken pyramid sachet with or without tag and envelop

Bag Sizes:

• Single -serving
• Large family “pitcher” serving

Outer Packaging:

• Standard board carton
• Premium flip-top lid carton with or without perforations
• Polybag

Counts:

• 20’s, 48’s, 72’s, 80’s,100’s, 144’s, 216’s, bulk 1000’s 

​Supporting your success is our team of dedicated experts in Sales, Marketing and Tea Category Management. We are committed to building a profitable private label tea program that enhances your customers’ shopping experience and your bottom line.

Our experience and expertise helps us:

• Understand your brand and banner strategy and your target shopper.
• Provide fact-based market data and trends to capitalize on consumer interest in the health benefits of tea.
• Recommend a tea portfolio (assortment, blends, and formats) that appeals to your shopper while also generating category margin.
• Provide insight on packaging copy to communicate selling features such as product attributes.
• Develop quality packaging material according to your guidelines and deadlines.
• Recommend promotional activity to generate incremental sales and profit.
• Support customer satisfaction with consistent supply and product quality.
• Evaluate launch and post-launch performance with ongoing recommendations that keep pace with changing consumer needs.

Tea Sourcing:

• Our expert Tea Commodities team continually seeks reliable, sustainable and safe supplies of high-quality tea for our customers.
• We have established long-standing relationships with select tea estates to ensure our stringent specifications for quality and consistency of supply are met.

Tea Procurement:

• We negotiate responsible purchasing terms with qualified producers in over 30 countries.
• All black, green and white teas are certified by the Ethical Tea Partnership.

Testing:

• Mother Parkers is one of the few tea manufacturers that mandates all teas be tested for micro, chemical and heavy metal content.
• Raw material are screened prior to purchase to ensure they meet strict standards for pesticides, ash and moisture.

QC Traceability:

• Quality checks are performed at every stage, from purchase of raw materials to delivery of final product.

QA Audits:

• Silliker certified, with SQF Level 2 certification by March 2012.

QA Programs include:

• HACCP, QMS, GMP, WHMIS, Kosher certification.

We are proud to be a member of several organizations that promote strict standards which provides assurance that our teas have been produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.