Canadian Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

MOTHER PARKERS TEA & COFFEE LTD
Industry: Beverages
Sub Industry: Tea & Coffee
Location: Ajax, Ontario
Size (sales): Over $C200 million
Purchasing Potential: Not provided
Specific Business
Opportunities:
Tea bagging machinery
1. Company Description:
Founded in 1912, Mother Parker’s Tea & Coffee, Inc. is one of North America's
largest family-owned tea, coffee, and instant coffee manufacturers. The company
supplies both private label and branded tea and coffee products to distributors,
retailers, and food service organizations, including many of North America’s leading
retail grocers, office coffee and vending distributors, restaurants, airlines,
convenience stores, fast food establishments, and doughnut chains. The company is
the largest supplier of private brand tea and coffee in Canada as well as a private
brand supplier to over 30 major U.S. grocery chains. The company’s range of
products includes popular formats of regular ground and whole bean; flavored and
gourmet coffee; regular and flavored instant coffee; hot and cold cappuccino-style
beverages; regular, flavored specialty and herbal teas. The company has operations
in North America, including Mississauga and Ajax Ontario; Montreal, Quebec,
Palisades Park, New Jersey, and Fort Worth, Texas.
2. Main Products Produced and How They Are Packed:
Product Packaging
Tea Tea bags
3. Installed Packaging Machinery:
Current Machinery Used
Brand No. of
by Category
Units
Tea bagging machines IMA
16
Bartell
2
4. Future Packaging Machinery Plans (next 3 years):
Country of Origin
Italy
U.S.
Mother Parker’s is planning to purchase IMA tea bagging machines in the near
future. Incorporating new technology, the IMA machines are high-speed machines
that can produce some new tea bag formats.
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