Our family-run tea company is the exclusive tea supplier of Pride of Britain Hotels, Britain’s leading luxury and boutique hotel collection comprising 50 hotels, mostly family-owned affairs. We’ve won the trust of the Waldorf Hilton, Covent Garden’s most historic hotel. Our ethics, commitment to the environment and Free Trade credentials have made us the tea company of choice for Café Spice Namaste, the longest-running Michelin BiB Gourmand restaurant in the world.
Our Partners
Launched in 2016, we're the winner of 8 Great Taste Stars (2 in 2018), offering a range of 11 exquisite teas. We are mad about tea and we understand the value tea can have to our partners’ brands and businesses. We understand that it begins and ends with the quality of our Tea: Unique. Whole-leaf. Organic. Fairtrade. Sourced solely from ethical growers whom we’ve personally sourced. Our teas are the only truly 100% organic and Fairtrade teas on the market.
We believe that Tea stands for all that was great, is great and can be great about living and dining in Britain... We are leading a tea revolution... so customers demand, and hospitality businesses benefit from offering premium tea & tea experiences.
We offer our Trade Partners
Personally sourced teas from all over the world
100% organic, whole-leaf, premium grade - you cannot offer your customers a finer quality or tasting tea
Full support
From training, to tea consultancy, to equipment supply - we make it easy to raise your tea game
Sustainability
Our teas are ethically sourced, produced using environmentallly friendly methods, and our packaging is biodegradable
Personal Approach
As a family run business, we thrive on relationships with people and we will find the deal that works for you.
Our Trade Offering
Tea Collections
We supply eleven different organic, loose leaf, premium speciality teas, tea blends and tisanes from four appealing Hope & Glory Tea collections. The teas are versatile, and can be served and enjoyed the traditional way or as ingredients in cold drinks or cocktails.
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Teaware / Equipment
Most of the hotels and restaurants we work with have their own supplies of tea ware and equipment. However, to complement the experience of our teas and to enhance special occasions and functions, we’re always ready to offer our own attractive range of branded Hope & Glory tea ware, from teapots to cups and saucers.
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Consultancy
At Hope & Glory, our Tea Master and Master Blender have the experience and expertise to help hotels, restaurants and all food service outlets to maximise the benefits of premium, speciality tea to their business. For example, we’ve advised a major hotel ton how to reimagine its tea offering, leading to the planned development of a permanent tea salon.
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Training
The Hope & Glory Tea company is more than a wholesale supplier or distributor of premium, speciality teas to the hospitality and catering industry. We make sure our responsibility doesn’t end when we take and deliver your tea orders. As your true tea partners, we make a point of designing and running Hope & Glory Tea training sessions from the onset of our partnership.
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Tea Tastings
Our Hope & Glory Tea Tastings will help you to appreciate the science and the art of tea. Whether it’s for professional or personal purposes, our Tea Master and Master Tea Blender will happily host tea tasting sessions, workshops and masterclasses to show you how to tell the quality of one tea from the next and how to best enjoy a range of premium, speciality teas.
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Bespoke Services
Do you have some bright ideas around the topic of tea that you’d like to explore? Let us know, because at Hope & Glory, we are passionate about everything to do with tea and are always willing to deliver tea-related products and services tailored to your needs.
Read MoreBecause we are passionate about making people fall in love with our teas, and want the same for your valued customers. Enclosed in our elegant packaging are loose leaf and pyramid bag teas that will make even the most die-hard tea drinkers swoon.
We offer excellent value in terms of the quality of our tea product, our genuinely attentive and deeply personalised service, and our attractive wholesale premium tea prices. Our integrated supply chain (with stock in the UK), ensures we are in a position to deliver on-time every time.
Tea offers an opportunity for forward thinking businesses: Tea is still the UK’s favourite drink but... 34% do not yet drink it out of home (great market opportunity). The balue of tea grew by 13.6% between 2015 and 2017, but Coffee shop culture is still strong, so operators need to add value to their tea offering to capture this market. 1 in 5 consumers are drinking more tea than they did a year ago, and coffee purchase occasions continue to decline out of home, while tea sales remain stable.
Figures from *Tetley Tea Report 2018
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Hope & Glory are leading the debate around ensuring the Hospitality and Catering industry satisfy the demands of consumer's for sustainable product. We recently sponsored the sustainability roundtable at the H&C Expo.
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