Akbar Brothers Pvt Ltd
Sri Lanka's largest Ceylon tea exporter since 1992.
Akbar Brothers is Sri Lanka's largest tea exporter by volume, operating the country's biggest tea manufacturing facility, 276,000 sq ft in Kelaniya, with a five-generation family legacy dating to 1907. The company exports retail, food-service, and bulk tea under its flagship Akbar Tea brand and manages white-label production for international retail chains. Their dedicated B2B contact program (contactus@akbar.com) onboards wholesale importers and distributors worldwide.
- Type
- Manufacturer
- Location
- Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
- Founded
- 1907
- Website
- akbar.com
- Categories
- Beverages, Specialty & Gourmet Food
- Markets
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Verified facts
- certificate-page-on-site (amber), checked 2026-08-11 Company's own certification page
- corporate-mail-on-domain (green), checked 2026-08-04 Mail server of the company domain
- debarment-clear (green), checked 2026-08-04 OpenSanctions
- sanctions-clear (green), checked 2026-08-04 OpenSanctions
- domain-registered (green), checked 2026-08-04 Domain registry record
Claimed certifications
- ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch
- ISO 22000, Food Safety IAF CertSearch
- HACCP
- Good Manufacturing Practice
- Fairtrade FLOCERT customer search
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA