- LIPTON Teas and Infusions and Browns Investments agree long-term partnership to accelerate tea industry transformation
- Lankan firm to get control of Lipton tea estates in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania; deal second overseas acquisition after purchase of James Finlay Kenya last year
- Strategic relationship with Lipton to champion global adoption of new quality, social and environmental standards
- LIPTON Teas and Infusions CEO Nathalie Roos says Browns the preferred partner with credibility, capabilities and scale, to work with to raise standards in the whole tea industry
- Communities to be offered 15% stake at discounted price with annual dividend
- Endowment of 1 b Kenyan shillings into new Community Welfare Trust
https://www.ft.lk/front-page/Browns-becomes-world-s-biggest-tea-exporter-in-deal-with-LIPTON/44-761546