Since more than 130 years your indulgence is our goal.
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The original company R. Seelig & Hille is established in Dresden.
TEEKANNE" is patented as a word and logo.
The brand TEEKANNE, one of the oldest existing trademarks in Germany, has the registration number 6541.
For the first time tea is mixed and packed in tins.
Rudolf Anders and Eugen Nissle, two dedicated company employees, introduce a pioneering innovation to the tea market: they sell blended teas packed in tins for the first time.
The fine art of tea blending, consistently ensuring the same high level of quality despite varying tea harvests, became the basis of the company’s business and earned it international renown.
Rudolf Anders and Eugen Nisslé take the company over. The company has been family owned ever since.
The “Teefix” trademark, the most widely known brand in Germany even today, and the brand “Pompadour” are registered.
The first tea pack machine came from Sachsen.
The Saxon company begins building tea bag packing machines developed by Adolf Rambold and begins selling them successfully throughout the world. They can produce 35 gauze tea bags per minute without operator intervention – and the first TEEKANNE tea bags are introduced on the market.
A new tea bag generation
A new generation of tea bags is sold under the brand TeeFix and takes the world markets by storm. The new Reliance tea bag machine from TEEKANNE can manufacture 80 of these bags per minute, initially made of perforated cellophane and later of parchment.
The rebuilding of TEEKANNE begins in Viersen am Niederrhein under difficult conditions.
Revolution on the tea market
The double-chamber tea bag, an invention of TEEKANNE, is patented. It revolutionises the tea market. In the double-chamber bag, the tea is filled into two chambers, allowing the water to come into contact with it optimally from all sides. This way, the tea can release its full flavour.
The precursor of the tea bags
During World War I, TEEKANNE supplies soldiers and civilians with good-tasting, lightly sweetened tea portions in gauze bags. These “tea bombs” were the precursors of the modern tea bag, and were initially manufactured by hand.
The second generation, Johannes Nissle and Rolf Anders, take over management of the company.
TEEKANNE is damaged
TEEKANNE in ruinsOn 13 February 1945, three months before the end of the war, the majority of Dresden is destroyed by bombing, and TEEKANNE suffers heavy damage.
Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH is established.
Tea bag machine CONSTANTA
The innovator Adolf Rambold, co-owner of Teepack, presents his all-automatic tea pack machine CONSTANTA at the end of 1949.
TEEKANNE Ges.m.b.H. Salzburg is established.
TEEKANNE becomes the first tea merchant to expand into the large-scale packing of herbal and fruit teas in tea bags.
These products are also blends, so that a high level of quality can be consistently maintained.
Relocation of TEEKANNE
TEEKANNE relocates from Viersen to a newly built production and administration facility in Düsseldorf.
Pompadour Tè srl GmbH is established in Bolzano, Italy.
In 1967 happened the consecration of the worldwide biggest tea pack street.
The third generation of the owner family enters the management.
TEEKANNE was the first tea house which packed tea bags in large amounts.
A stake is acquired in Pompadour Ibérica S.A., Spain.
A cooperation agreement (distribution and production) is concluded between VEB Kaffee und Tee, Radebeul bei Dresden, and TEEKANNE GmbH.
TEEKANNE Polska, is established in Krakow.
TEEKANNE Ceska is established in Prague, Czech Republic.
Takeover Kandisin
TEEKANNE GmbH, Salzburg, market leader in Austria, acquires the brand Kandisin, Vienna, the market leader on the Austrian sweetener market.
TEEKANNE celebrates 100 years of business. Every employee is given a teapot created especially for the occasion.
The biggest tea pots of the world
The 100th anniversary of the TEEKANNE trademark, one of the oldest trademarks in Germany, is celebrated. The biggest teapots in the world in the form of two 30-metre-high hot air balloons fly over 100 cities in Germany in a major promotional tour.
The tea bag machine Perfecta
The Perfecta tea bag machine, a successor to the Constanta, is introduced on the market. It produces up to 400 double-chamber bags per minute.
New production
The TEEKANNE group builds a new production site in Alicante, Spain, together with the company Pompadour Ibérica S.A. Upon completion, it is the most modern tea factory in the world.
Redco Foods Inc. in Windsor, Connecticut, the third largest company on the US tea market, is acquired.
Die Nummer drei auf dem amerikanischen Teemarkt.
TEEKANNE celebrates the 50th birthday of its double-chamber tea bag
Establishment of the company Kütas TEEKANNE Gida Sanayi A.S.
With the establishment of Kütas TEEKANNE Gida Sanayi A.S. in Kemalpasa-Izmir, Turkey, the TEEKANNE group now has production facilities or branches in eight different countries (Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the USA).
Establishment of a subsidiary in Slovakia.
Enlargement of our range with real fruit infusions which you can drink cold: TEEKANNE Cool Sensations.
TEEKANNE celebrates its 125-year anniversary.
TEEKANNE combines more than 130 years tea experience with the creation of new and present taste varieties.