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Kent and Sussex Tea & Coffee Company
The Kent & Sussex Tea and Coffee Company is an Independent Tea and Coffee business run by the Smith Family. The Company is involved with the importing, packing, wholesaling and retailing of tea and the importing and roasting of an extensive range of Coffees for commercial and private customers. The factory and Warehouse are situated in the Village of Pluckley, in the heart of the English County of Kent. Today the Company has a fleet of vans servicing retail and catering customers directly in Kent and Sussex and via courier throughout the United Kingdom, the European Union and Internationally. At the factory there is a factory shop open to the public Monday to Friday 9am to 5 pm with a range of over 800 teas and coffees available. The company has an extensive online offering via its multi language websites.

History
Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Company was established in 1982 and is the Trading name of Three Companies, The Kent Tea and Trading Company, The Sussex Tea Company and Tea And Coffee Dot Com Limited. The Company was established in 1982 by Mr Malcolm Smith and his son Richard Smith. The Company is situated in Kent, where they have their own factory, over 7,000 square feet, at Pivington Mill near the Village of Pluckley. The factory produces traditional tea bags and packs an extensive range of loose leaf teas, selling over 750 different types of tea. A range of over 65 different fresh roasted coffees is also produced. Coffees for all types of machines including for espresso, filter and cafetiere. The coffee is roasted using the state of the art Nuehaus Neotec fluidized air-bed system roasting system which maintains the highest quality and consistency.

The family's involvement in India started in the 1920's when Mr Robert Stammers travelled to India to work in the tea trade on the plantations of Assam in North East India. Ultimately he was the Manager of the Behora Tea Estate. Daughter Janet married an ex Gurkha Mr Malcolm Smith who had also joined the tea trade. Based in Calcutta Malcolm Smith worked for the McLeod Russell tea plantation Company. On retirement from India the family settled in the village of Pluckley which is claimed to be the most haunted village in England. On request from the local grocer some tea was sourced and called Pluckley Tea. To this day Pluckley Tea is the main day to day brand for the Company.

The Sussex Tea Company was established in the late 1980's to help a retired tea planter and to offer the people of Sussex a tea suited to the local water. Tea and Coffee dot com started in the early 1980's to work in the new area of the internet.

The Kent & Sussex Tea and Coffee Company
Today the Company supplies hundreds of UK retail stockists and catering establishments offering an unrivaled range and expertise along with thousands of private customers worldwide. The Company now employs 15 people. Online services include an English Language website, a Russian and a French website. Online Trade facilities are offered to many European Union Countries.

Product Range: Tea - Black Teas, Green Teas, Oolong Teas, White Teas, Gurkha Tea, Flavoured Black Teas, Flavoured Green Teas, Herbal Teas, Fruit Teas and Fruit Tisanes, English Breakfast Teas, Earl Grey Teas, Pluckley Tea, Sussex Tea, Chai Teas. Freshly Roasted single origin Coffees, Espresso Coffees, Blended coffees, Flavoured Coffees, Chocolate covered coffee beans and Rain Forest Alliance Coffees.

Company involved in many charity activities like the Pluckers Ball.