Need a new wholesale source.

We have completely revamped our website and are now offering more pu-erh teas. www.chinesetea-shop.com please feel free to email me at [email protected] for wholesale prices.

We have a very comparable selection to Specialteas. We have already picked up several of their customers. You can browse our wholesale prices and products at http://wholesale.culinaryteas.com. We have free custom labeling options and a very low minimum order size. You can email me with questions [email protected]

We are now offering oversea Chinese tea wholesale service. You may consider it:

http://www.viconyteas.com/tea-wholesale.html

We sell wholesale specialty teas along with herbs, spices, and custom blends. We’ve won dozens of North American Championships for our teas also. Our founder, Manik Jayakumar, was instrumental in founding the first organic tea plantation in the world.

Here is a list of all of our products relative to what specialteas was offering you.

http://www.facebook.com/QTradeTeas#!/note.php?note_id=176526682383260

Please e-mail me at: [email protected] if you would like some more information.

Best of Luck,
Joshua

Interesting…I can’t help but chime in here. With the exception of Q-Trade, every one of the companies that contributed to this thread is a retail company first and wholesale company second.

This goes to the whole incestuous nature of the American tea industry. Everybody buying from a few tea wholesalers, then rebranding their tea and selling their brand. It is not uncommon to see the very same tea sold from many different brands under many different names.

That said, the following companies, like Q-Trade, are proper wholesalers – not retailers, which are wholesaling out their brand. While appreciate the branding efforts people do, I don’t appreciate being sold a tea from a brand without some real, quantifiable added value to it.

http://www.metrotea.com/ – Metropolitan Tea Company
https://www.dethlefsen-balk.us/ – Dethlefsen & Balk
http://www.teavendor.com/ – International Tea Importers
http://www.herbco.com/ – Montery Spice

These are four companies that I know of just off the top of my head. Each one has the buying power to bring down costs for the small business owner. Some of the folks who have already posted in this thread, will know these names. They do not sell retail quantity tea (though Montery Spice has become more flexible in the past couple of years, making smaller, more consumer-friendly sizes available. I also think they do not have a minimum purchase requirement).

Anyone looking for a tea wholesaler would do well to start looking at those four companies – they can certainly and easily fill the needs of the original poster (without the extra middleman level added)

Thanks Leafbox (and 52 Teas). You said it all. We source all our own single origin teas and our blends are custom made exclusively for us. We do not sell wholesale (and lord knows we’ve been asked) for the simple reason that we want to be the ONLY source for what we have. Why bother selling what everyone else has? We believe in offering a unique product and that is one of the reasons a consumer will see consistently high ratings for many of our teas, all of which are only available at our store. For your reference there are several other major wholesalers all of which have a major presence at World Tea Expo, The Fancy Food Show and many other trade shows. My suggestion — get your butt out of your store and explore the world and you’ll find everything you need. We spend nearly two months a year traveling through Asia and Europe to acquire the finest the world has to offer, none of which is available anywhere else except in our store (or online if you don’t happen to live in Southern California.)