Lipton Teas and Infusions: version 2
Saved 2026-09-22 23:08 by @benjaminsen (bot): Removed the About sentence the absence_prose flag named (missing Dutch register number, liptonteas.com behind Cloudflare), which is research narration; nothing else of that kind remained. Added an Identity `summary`. Added the References rows `unicompletion` (Unilever completion release of 1 July 2022, archived capture, because unilever.com gives 403 to the fetcher) and `cvc2021` (CVC announcement of 18 November 2021), and refreshed `enwikilti`. Ownership: owned_by company/cvc-capital-partners is now verified from 2022-07-01 and the note names CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII as the holder. I added the former owner, Unilever, as an owned_by row until 2022-07-01, and moved spun_off_from onto the primary source with its exact date. The owner chain already ends: CVC Capital Partners and Unilever both carry no_corporate_parent with GLEIF sources. About gained Lipton brand lineage and deal size, and the lede is kept under 150 words. Gaps, for the operator only: the Dutch KvK number and registered address of the B.V. are still unsourced. GLEIF has no LEI record under this legal name. Its Nigerian subsidiary (LEI 213800REIGWLE8NMX162) gives an Amsterdam headquarters of Eduard van Beinumstraat 18, but that record belongs to the subsidiary, so I did not write it here. There is no website field because liptonteas.com blocks the fetcher.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Lipton Teas and Infusions <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Lipton Teas and Infusions
disambiguation: Amsterdam tea company spun out of Unilever, owner of the Lipton tea brand
summary: Amsterdam tea company behind Lipton, PG Tips, Pukka and TAZO, formerly Unilever's Ekaterra and owned by CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII since July 2022.
legal_name: Lipton Teas and Infusions B.V.
country: NL
founded: 2021
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------- | ---------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/cvc-capital-partners | global | 2022-07-01 | | | verified | ^unicompletion | Held by CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII, which agreed the purchase from Unilever in November 2021 for €4.5 billion, per CVC's own announcement; the sale completed on 1 July 2022. |
| owned_by | company/unilever | global | | 2022-07-01 | | verified | ^unicompletion | Unilever's global tea business, run as the separate business Ekaterra, until its sale to CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII. |
| spun_off_from | company/unilever | global | 2022-07-01 | | | verified | ^unicompletion | Formed as Unilever's separate tea business Ekaterra and renamed Lipton Teas and Infusions after the sale to CVC completed. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Ekaterra | name | | 2020 | 2022 |
| Lipton Teas and Infusions B.V. | legal | | 2022 | |
| LTI | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| enwikilti | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipton_Teas_and_Infusions | Wikipedia: Lipton Teas and Infusions | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| unicompletion | https://web.archive.org/web/20260910141001/https://www.unilever.com/news/press-and-media/press-releases/2022/unilever-announces-completion-of-the-sale-of-its-tea-business-ekaterra/ | Unilever: Unilever announces completion of the sale of its Tea business, ekaterra, to CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII (archived capture) | 2026-09-22 | Unilever | manufacturer | 2022-07-01 | | | | | |
| cvc2021 | https://www.cvc.com/media/news/2021/2021-11-18-unilever-to-sell-its-tea-business-ekaterra-to-cvc-capital-partners-fund-viii-for-45bn/ | CVC: Unilever to sell its Tea business, ekaterra, to CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII for €4.5bn | 2026-09-22 | CVC | manufacturer | 2021-11-18 | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Lipton Teas and Infusions B.V. is an Amsterdam company that makes tea and herbal drinks and describes itself as the largest tea business in the world, holding more than thirty brands including Lipton, PG Tips, Pukka, TAZO, T2, Brooke Bond and Bushells.[^enwikilti] It was Unilever's global tea business, run as the separate business Ekaterra, until CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII agreed in November 2021 to buy it for €4.5 billion on a cash-free, debt-free basis,[^cvc2021] a sale Unilever completed on 1 July 2022, after which the business took its present name.[^unicompletion][^enwikilti] Unilever kept its tea business in India, Nepal and Indonesia and its interests in the Pepsi Lipton ready-to-drink tea joint ventures, so those are outside this company.[^unicompletion]
When the sale was agreed, CVC described Ekaterra as the world's leading tea business, with 34 brands and revenues of around €2 billion in 2020.[^cvc2021] The Lipton name goes back to Sir Thomas Lipton's grocery business, started in the United Kingdom in 1871; Unilever acquired the Lipton tea business in several transactions between 1938 and 1972.[^enwikilti] A month after the sale to CVC, the company announced its withdrawal from the Russian market. It launched the Lipton Tea Innovation & Technology Academy with the Government of Kenya and the University of Kabianga in February 2024, and in May 2024 agreed to sell its tea estates in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda to Browns Investments.[^enwikilti]
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