About Finlays
Finlays was founded in 1750. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swire Group, the company has extensive tea and horticultural interests in East Africa and Sri Lanka complimented by global trading, packaging and extraction activities, with the primary markets being in the UK and US. The main business areas are:
· Horticulture: Flamingo Holdings a wholly-owned subsidiary of Finlays, is a substantial horticultural business that includes growing, processing, packaging, marketing and distribution of cut flowers and premium prepared fresh vegetables, supplying several leading UK retailers
· Tea Estates: Producing over 40 million kilos of black tea every year from tea estates in Sri Lanka and Kenya
· Tea Trading: Trading in excess of 100 million kilos each year from our offices in the UK, Kenya, Dubai, Malawi, Vietnam and the USA
· Tea Extraction: As the world’s largest supplier of quality tea extracts, dealing with all of the world’s top beverage companies.
· Beverage Packing: From our state of the art facilities in the UK and Sri Lanka, blending, sourcing and packaging. primarily private label tea and coffee for customers in the UK, the Middle East and Japan
· Logistics and services: In Sri Lanka with the first modern refrigerated storage facility of any scale and a variety of primarily service-related businesses in both Sri Lanka and in Pakistan
We employ over 50,000 people, many of whom reside on our tea estates and flower farms in Sri Lanka and Africa and for whom we provide housing, schooling and medical facilities. We are very serious about our responsibilities towards our people and their communities as well as the local and global environment. Our flower farms and many of our tea estates are Fair Trade accredited.
However, while operating to high ethical and environmental standards and audited by numerous external audit bodies, we recognise that the environmental and social situation is never a constant and are committed to continually looking for ways to improve our performance.
Finlays is a wholly owned subsidiary of John Swire and Sons Limited UK
