Bushells is an Australian company that produces tea and coffee.

History

Bushells was founded by Alfred Bushell in 1883, when he opened a tea shop in

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. His sons moved the enterprise to

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in 1899 and began selling tea commercially, founding Australia's first commercial tea seller. A Bushells tea factory was set up in Harrington Street, Sydney, and a coffee roasting department at Atherton Place in The Rocks. In 1940, members of the Bushell family acquired the heritage-listed Sydney house, Carthona. In the 1980s, the company diversified its coffee manufacturing under the Bushells Coffee brand. In 1998, as part of an acquisition of coffee brands from

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, FreshFood Services Pty Ltd purchased the Bushells Coffee brand. FreshFood also purchased the New Zealand division of Bushells Coffee. The tea brand remained with Unilever until 2022 when it was divested along with most of Unilever’s tea business to CVC Capital Partners as

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. Coffee continues to be produced at the Concord factory. FreshFood announced a long-term plan to close the Concord factory. As of January 2018, planning was still in the early stages and the closure was at least three to five years away.

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