Barry's Tea
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| Founded | Cork, Ireland (1901) |
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| Headquarters | Cork, Ireland |
Key people | James J. Barry |
| Products | Black Teas, Green Teas & Fruit and Herbal Teas |
Number of employees | 65 (2015) |
| Website | www.barrysteashop.ie |
Barry's Tea is an Irish tea company founded in 1901 by James J. Barry in Cork City. Until the 1960s, tea was sold from a shop in Prince's Street, but thereafter the company expanded its wholesaling and distribution operations.
By the mid-1980s Barry's Tea had become a national brand. According to their website, they are currently responsible for 38% of all tea sales in the Irish market (which is worth an estimated €85 million annually).[1] Today, Barry's Tea is also available in the United Kingdom, Spain, and in some areas of Canada, Australia, France, Luxembourg and the United States where there are significant Irish immigrant communities.
Members of the Barry family been elected representatives for Fine Gael: the founder's son Anthony Barry (TD 1954–57 and 1961–65), Anthony's son Peter Barry (TD 1969–97) and Peter's daughter Deirdre Clune (TD 1997–2001 and 2007–11, and MEP since 2014).
Environmental issues
In May 2018 it was revealed that that many barrys tea teabags are made with polypropylene and not compostable [2]