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Tata Global Beverages Australia

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Tea importers

Tea manufacturing was moved offshore when Tetley's Australian factory closed in Feb 2003.

Company Ownership

Tata Global Beverages Aust Pty Ltd   AUS     website   email   facebook   
  Tata Consumer Products Ltd   
   owns 100% of Tata Global Beverages Aust Pty Ltd  
IND     website   email      twitter

Beverages

Formerly known as Tata Global Beverages. With over 200 years of history, this company is now the second largest tea company in the world. 71% of revenue comes from tea sales, with a significant presence in over 40 countries. Acquired Tetley in 2000.

      Tata Group   
       owns 100% of Tata Consumer Products Ltd  
IND     website         

Business conglomerate

India's largest industrial conglomerate,Tata runs more than 90 companies in seven main business sectors: chemicals, communications and IT, consumer products, energy, engineering, materials, and services. The group is managed through holding company Tata Sons Ltd. Tata owns Jaguar and Land Rover.

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Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
Tata Global Beverages Aust Pty Ltd
Environment Australian Packaging Covenant signatory
Signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a voluntary agreement to encourage waste minimisation.
Source: Australian Packaging Covenant (2020)
Environment Organic products
This company's Good Earth range of kombucha is certified organic under the Australian Certified Organic label.
Source: ACO (2020)
Social Fairtrade products
This company sells Fairtrade Certified coffee. However this only represents a fraction of their total sales.
Source: Fairtrade ANZ (2018)
Tata Consumer Products Ltd
Environment CDP Climate Change Score of A-
In 2020, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asked companies to provide data about their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change risk. Responding companies are scored across four key areas: disclosure; awareness; management; and leadership. This company received a CDP Climate Change Score of A-.
Source: CDP (2020)
Social Workers rights in India
A 2015 investigation by the BBC has found workers on Indian tea plantations who pick tea for this company are paid less than £2 per day and live in inhuman conditions. Living and working conditions are so bad, and wages so low, that tea workers and their families are left malnourished and vulnerable to fatal illnesses. There was also a disregard for health and safety, with workers spraying chemicals without protection, and on some estates, child labour being used.
Source: BBC (2015)
Social Workers rights in India
A 2014 report by Columbia Law School has found workers on an Indian tea plantation who pick tea for Tetley are paid less than £2 per day and live in inhuman conditions.
Source: The Telegraph (2014)
Business Ethics 17/100 S&P Global ESG Score
This company received an S&P Global ESG Score of 17/100 in the Food & Staples Retailing category of the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, an annual evaluation of companies' sustainability practices (last updated 7 Feb 2021). The rankings are based on an analysis of corporate economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as corporate governance, risk management, environmental reporting, climate strategy, human rights and labour practices.
Source: S&P Global (2021)
Social Human trafficking
Stop the Traffik is calling on this company to take leadership in preventing people being trafficked out of the tea plantations of Assam. Stop the Traffik are not accusing Tata Global Beverages of trafficking girls from Assam to be held in situations of modern slavery. They are, however, concerned that Tata Global Beverages is engaged in a labour scheme via Amalgamated Plantations in Assam that is fuelling unique forms of vulnerability to modern slavery. Of all the possible players, Tata Global Beverages has the power to do the most good in this situation.
Source: Stop the Traffik (2014)
Social Workers rights in India
Tea workers in India's West Bengal continue to be punished for challenging their harsh living and working conditions. Over one thousand tea workers and their families living and working on the Tata controlled Nowera Nuddy tea estate were locked out of their work for three months in 2009 and denied all wages, food and rations in response to a protest over the mistreatment of Mrs. Arti Oraon, a 22 year-old tea garden worker who was denied maternity leave and forced to continue work as a tea plucker despite being 8 months pregnant. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
Source: IUF (2011)
Environment Rainforest Alliance certified products
This company sells Rainforest Alliance certified tea. However this only represents a fraction of this company's total tea sales. Rainforest Alliance certification has been dubbed 'Fairtrade light' by critics, as it offers producers no minimum price for their crop, and guarantees a minimum of just 30% of the product is certified.
Source: Rainforest Alliance (2020)
Environment Rainforest Alliance honouree
This company won a 2013 Sustainable Standard-Setter Award from the Rainforest Alliance, which recognizes businesses that are working diligently to meet rigorous sustainability standards, protect the environment, and support local communities worldwide.
Source: Rainforest Alliance (2013)
Business Ethics Ethical Tea Partnership member
The Ethical Tea Partnership was formed in 1997 when a number of major tea companies committed to working together to improve the social and environmental conditions in their supply chains.
Source: Ethical Tea Partnership (2020)
Tata Group
Social 35.8% in conflict minerals rankings
As You Sow's 2019 report, Mining the Disclosures, is a deep analysis of 215 companies' human rights performance in relation to sourcing conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This company's score was 35.8% (Weak).
Source: As You Sow (2019)
Social Involvement with Burma
This company appears on Burma Campaign UK's 'Dirty List' of companies assisting the Burmese military to continue to commit human rights violations and environmental destruction. Tata motors supplies equipment to the military in Burma, including the LPTA 715 troop carrier and the Xenon GS800 SUV, often used as military staff cars.
Source: Burma Campaign UK (2019)
Social Defense & Military - direct
Tata Group subsidiary Tata Power's Strategic Engineering Division makes weapons and weapon components for the India's Defence forces.
Source: company website (2020)
Environment Climate action commitments
As listed on the We Mean Business website, this company has committed to the following climate action initiatives: responsible corporate engagement in climate policy; report climate change information in mainstream reports as a fiduciary duty; improve water security.
Source: We Mean Business (2017)
Business Ethics Leather Working Group member
This company is a member of the Leather Working Group, a multi-stakeholder group who's objective is to develop and maintain a protocol that assesses the compliance and environmental performance of tanners and promotes sustainable and appropriate environmental business practices within the leather industry.
Source: Leather Working Group (2019)

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Company Details

Type Wholly-owned subsidiary
Subsidiaries Earth Rules Pty Ltd 

Coffee

Founded in 2002 the company started off by supplying coffee machines to cafes and bars in Australia before entering the coffee roasting market. One of Australia's major coffee machine and coffee capsule suppliers, with further sales throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Acquired by Tata Global Beverages in 2014 for about $30 million.

Contact Details

Address PO Box 133, South Yarra, VIC, 3141, Australia
Freecall 1800 441 344
Email customer@tetley.com.au
Website www.tatabeveragesolutions.com

Products / Brands

Tata Global Beverages Australia
Billy Tea Tea
Good Earth certified organic certified organic  Kombucha
Kinkara Tea
Map Coffee
Mr Barista Coffee
Robur Tea
Tetley Tea
Tetley Iced Tea
Tuckfields Tea
Tynee Tips Tea


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