In the last 25 years, Global Tea has made 16 acquisitions ranging from Brooke Bond Tea, Red Mountain Coffee (from Unilever UK) to the acquisition of over 50,000 Acres of Tea, Coffee and Macadamia nuts plantations from the British Government (CDC) in Tanzania and Malawi, 8000 Acres of Makandi Tea and Coffee (ex Lonhro) to Typhoo Tea Ltd (ex Premier Foods Ltd), an iconic British Brand acquired in partnership with Apeejay Surrendra Ltd.
Value addition has been the focus of the company and Kericho Gold and Baraka Chai in Kenya are now the second largest packers of tea in Africa. The company is steadily growing towards acquiring the largest market share of the UK private label business while Kericho Gold has over 70% of the Premium Branded Market in Africa.
In 2005 Nadeem set up the first tea export processing zone in the African tea industry and Gold Crown Foods (EPZ) Ltd was formed in Mombasa. This is today the largest exporter of value added tea from Kenya with exports of over 15 million kgs which is over 90% of all Kenyan valued added tea exports. During the same year, Global Tea was conferred with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. In addition, Global Tea is also the largest Independent Bulk tea exporter from Kenya with over 60 million KGs exported in 2017 beat Unilever to no 2 position.
The coffee and Macadamia nut plantations in Malawi are now 100% export oriented units, with state of the art processing factories exporting to Japan, USA, Europe, China, Taiwan, Korea etc.
The group sales are in excess of USD$300 million and is amongst the largest tea companies in the world.
Nadeem is actively involved with many social and charitable institutions to name a few as follows;
- Patron of the British Asian Trust founded by King Charles in 2007
- Member of Institute of Directors, London
- Member of The Arts Club, London
