Finlays UK & Europe, including Finlay Beverages, is one of the region’s largest processors and packers of tea and coffee. With 117 years’ experience in tea and 109 in coffee we are experts in our field. As well as packed tea and coffee, we supply a wide range of tea, coffee and botanical extracts to aid the development of iced, RTD and cold brew teas and coffees across Europe.
Finlay Beverages began in 1896 and became formally known as Finlay Beverages Ltd. in 1976. We have been blending and packing tea since 1903 and roasting and grinding coffee since 1911.
Finlay Beverages is one of the UK’s largest tea and coffee packers and supplies a vast range of formats across the retail and foodservice sectors.
We have over 300 employees based in our purpose-built facility in Yorkshire where we partner with our private label customers to develop winning ranges across retail and foodservice, while helping brands large and small develop the perfect proposition for their shoppers and consumers.
Supplying many of the biggest retailers and foodservice chains in the UK, Finlay Beverages works as your trusted partner and is a flexible one-stop-shop for all your tea and coffee needs.
As members of the British Coffee Association and the UK Tea and Infusions Association, Finlay Beverages is truly at the heart of the UK hot beverage sector.
We source, blend and pack tea & infusions from multiple sources into a wide variety of formats.
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Our state-of-the-art processing facility in Yorkshire means we are uniquely placed to offer you a high-quality product made to your exact specification. Tea is sourced, blended and packed on site by our dedicated team so we can offer you the complete service for your brand.
In addition to tea and coffee packing we also decaffeinate tea in our purpose build facility in Hull. One of the best decaffeination sites in the world, here we not only decaffeinate tea but also reclaim the caffeine for onward sales to brand owners in the beverages sector and pharmaceutical industry.
When it comes to Out of Home coffee, Finlay Beverages exists so you can focus on what you do best – delighting your consumers every time. We combine world-leading expertise in coffee with a flexible, analytical, and insight-led approach to developing coffee solutions just for your business. Thanks to our fully traceable supply chains, you can expect not only exceptional consistency of product and supply, but peace of mind your coffee has been meticulously sourced, whether you require wholesale coffee beans or a bespoke blend solution.
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Finlay Beverages has been roasting, grinding and packing coffee since 1911.
Today, we have four roasters that use two types of roasting technology – two main manufacturing roasters, and two speciality and development roasters. This gives us the flexibility to roast to any profile.
Combining 109 years of experience in coffee with our state of the art facility means we can meet your needs.
We combine our rich heritage in roast and ground coffee with our proprietary extraction capabilities founded in the US and are proud to be pioneers of Cold Brew coffee, supplying many of the biggest brands in the world.
With our bean-to-brew approach, our Cold Brew Coffee solutions are truly market-leading.
To meet your needs we source tea from across the key growing regions of the world. This includes from our own tea farms, in Kenya, Sri Lanka and Argentina, as well as our new processing facility in China. We also source from many more including Malawi, Indonesia and India.
We source coffee from 23 countries around the globe with long term supply partners in all the major producing countries throughout the World’s coffee belt.
Our team of coffee buyers travel extensively throughout our farmer network from the major producers of coffee such as Colombia, Brazil and Vietnam to some of the more unique origins such as Hawaii, Jamaica and Australia.
Sourcing coffee sustainably is a core value of our business and a value which can be seen throughout our coffee supply chain.