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Ten Ren Tea

Ten Ren's Tea or Tian Ren's Tea is a Taiwanese company that specializes in tea and ginseng products.

History

Founded in 1953[2] in Taiwan by Ray Ho Lee, Ten Ren's Group (天仁集團) also operates Cha for Tea teahouses in Southern California as well as Ten Ren's Tea (天仁茗茶) stores in California and six Ten Rens in New York, and other places, and through the subsidiary Ten Fu Group (天福集團) produces and sells tea products in China, where much of its activity now takes place.[3]

By 2003 it had 113 outlets globally, making it Taiwan's largest tea shop chain.[4]

Global operations

Ten Ren Tea is located in Australia, Japan, Canada, Malaysia,[5] the United States[6][7] and other countries. The Ten Ren Tea and the Lu-Yu Tea Institute are part of the Ten Fu Group. The Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute (陸羽茶藝中心) was founded in 1980. Ten Fu Group in 1993, as a way of bringing Taiwanese tea expertise back to the Chinese mainland. Ten Fu now has over 1,000 retail stores across China "as of 2010". Tenfu Tea College (天福茶學院) was founded in 2007 by Ten Fu Group.

Ten Ren's Tea Vancouver store was featured as a challenge location in an episode of The Amazing Race Canada. The episode was watched by 2.9 million Canadians.

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References

  1. TEN REN'S TEA CO February Sales Fall 6.78% Bloomberg, 7 March 2012, retrieved 16 March 2012^
  2. Stephen Keeling. The Rough Guide to Taiwan Rough Guides, 2011, retrieved 16 March 2012^
  3. Coca-Cola and Ten Ren brewing new instant-tea drinks Taipei Times, 28 May 2003^
  4. Amber Chung. Ten Ren wants to make tea hot Taipei Times, 11 December 2003, retrieved 16 March 2012^
  5. Less tea drinkers in Taiwan Manila Standard, 13 April 2002, retrieved 16 March 2012^
  6. Hilary Davidson. Frommer's New York City Day by Day Wiley, 2005, retrieved 16 March 2012^
  7. Matthew Pool. Frommer's San Francisco 2010 Wiley, 2009, retrieved 16 March 2012^