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Lipton

European-owned · made in the US · based in Ontario

Yellow Label black and green tea bags, decaf green tea and herbal pyramids sold in Canada by Lipton Teas and Infusions Canada Inc., the Ontario import and distribution arm of Amsterdam-based Lipton Teas and Infusions. Lipton iced tea is a separate Unilever and PepsiCo joint venture and is not covered here.

ON CA · www.lipton.com

Found at Sobeys Walmart
26.8

Lipton tea in Canada is imported and distributed by Lipton Teas and Infusions Canada Inc., a nine-person Ontario subsidiary of Lipton Teas and Infusions B.V. of Amsterdam, which CVC Capital Partners bought from Unilever in 2022. Nothing is blended or packed in Canada; the Canadian Yellow Label box is listed as US origin and the group's only North American factory is in Suffolk, Virginia, with other lines coming from its plants in Poland and Dubai. The tea leaf itself comes mostly from Kenya, India, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Factors

Ownership

50.0 verified

EU 100%

Lipton Teas and Infusions Canada Inc. states in its 2025 Bill S-211 report that it is incorporated under the Ontario Business Corporations Act and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lipton Group Holdings B.V. and an indirect subsidiary of Lipton Teas and Infusions B.V., a private company headquartered in the Netherlands. The parent's own site says CVC completed its acquisition of the former Unilever tea business on July 1, 2022; CVC is a Jersey-based, Amsterdam-listed private equity firm, so the whole stake sits in the EU bucket. Corporations Canada returned no federal record for the Canadian entity, consistent with its Ontario incorporation; the Ontario Business Registry could not be checked this session.

Manufacturing

0.0 inferred

EU 25% · other 15% · US 60%

The Canadian subsidiary's Bill S-211 report says it imports its products from related parties in North America, Europe and the Middle East, so nothing is packed in Canada; the former Unilever tea plant in Brampton is gone and the entity has no factory. The Amazon.ca listing for the Canadian Yellow Label 100-count box, with Lipton Teas and Infusions Canada Inc. as manufacturer, gives the country of origin as USA, and the group's careers page advertises manufacturing roles at its Suffolk factory in Virginia, its only North American plant; its Katowice, Poland and Jebel Ali, Dubai factories cover the pyramid and specialty lines. The split is an estimate weighted to the Yellow Label volume seller; the packing plant for each Canadian line could not be confirmed from packaging.

People

38.0 inferred

CA 20% · EU 40% · other 20% · US 20%

The Canadian entity reports a team of about nine employees working remotely in Ontario and Quebec with no office, so the people behind the product are mostly abroad: management, R&D and brand teams at the Amsterdam head office and its Katowice hub, factory staff at Suffolk, and the group's roughly 3,000 employees across 28 countries, most of them in factories. The split is an estimate.

Inputs

16.5 reported

EU 5% · other 85% · US 10%

Tea leaf is the input: the Canadian S-211 report names suppliers in Kenya, India, Rwanda and Tanzania, and the parent says it buys about 4 percent of world tea production with two thirds of its supplies coming from Africa. The group sold its own Kenyan, Rwandan and Tanzanian estates to Browns Investments in April 2025, so leaf is now bought rather than grown. The small US and EU shares are an estimate for filter paper, cartons and blending at the packing plants.

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