About AVANTCHA

Advancing Tea from a Simple Refreshment to a Deeper, More Connected Experience.

Simplicity, Style, Substance

Founded in 2014 by Markus and Marina, AVANTCHA combines avant-garde design, innovation, and tea with a focus on sustainability. With offices in the UK, Switzerland, and Thailand, and Dubai as our logistical hub, we offer unrivalled flavour, quality, and style.

Collaborating Directly with Producers

We collaborate directly with our tea gardens to foster relationships with producers, ensuring we secure the finest teas while understanding, influencing, and supporting production conditions. This approach upholds and rewards quality, creating transparency and value across the supply chain.

Sustainability: Doing Everything We Can

We place huge emphasis on doing things properly, working throughout the supply chain to make continual improvements together and promote sustainable practices, including organic-certified and naturally farmed teas, biodegradable teabags, and finding lasting, realistic solutions that truly make a difference.

Collaborating directly with producers to pursue tea with integrity and exceptional quality that meets organic standards and tastes fantastic.

Organic Cultivation

Our teas meet EU standards, are certified as organic or are labelled with our own ‘Natural Farming’ standards, supported by test reports. We actively advocate for organic and natural farming, promoting healthy soil, erosion control, water supply improvement, and biodiversity.

Natural Flavouring

Our tea blends feature organic ingredients and natural flavourings derived from real food sources, and our herbs, roots and spices are sought from smallholdings that we work with directly to cultivate ingredients grown with integrity and with superb clarity of taste.

Biodegradable Packaging

Our teabags are made from biodegradable PLA, sourced from plants like sugar cane. They offer the same quality as our loose-leaf tea and biodegrade within 6 months in commercial composting. These plastic-free bags contain no GMOs, glues, staples, or metals, using long cotton threads and heat-sealed paper tags.

Our Clients Speak For Themselves

For over a decade, we’ve built lasting client relationships with the very best in the industry, offering unique tea experiences, inspiring events, and bespoke products. Visit our business pages to learn more or contact us for a chat.

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Our Clients

We have established long-standing business relationships with our clients over the past decade, creating experiences for guests to truly savour and engage with the very best that tea has to offer – from unique tea programmes, to inspiring events, and bespoke products, we have the agility to create what is needed to impress. Visit our Business pages to learn more, or contact us for a chat.

AVANTCHA BUSINESS

AVANTCHA milestones
We’ve Come So Far

2024

Climate positive and neutral

Environmentally conscious, our goal is to achieve a positive balance for 2024.

Today

Developing presence and sustainability efforts

AVANTCHA has an international team in UAE, Switzerland and the UK. We are also actively working on developing our presence in Thailand and Hong Kong while continuously extending our range of organic teas and improving our sustainability efforts.

2021

Growing portfolio

Our client portfolio continues to grow. Today, it includes Cartier, Gucci, Panerai and Jager Le Coultre (gifting and events). Prestigious hotels such as the Four Seasons, Burj Al Arab, Waldorf Astoria, EDITION, Mandarin Oriental, Jumeirah Group and Hilton Luxury Collection also serve our teas.

2020

Open new offices

AVANTCHA expands! We open offices in the UK, Switzerland and Thailand.

2019

Pop-up Store

Opening a pop-up store in Dubai Mall

2018

Tea Bar Al Quoz

Opening of our Tea Bar & Shop in Dubai

2017

First hotel client

A proud year with the signing of our first hotel client.

2016

Warehouse in Dubai

AVANTCHA moves to a centralised warehouse in Dubai.

2015

Lauch of Online shop

The launch of our online shop, with the first order arriving on June 20th, 2015!

2014

The launch of AVANTCHA

From day one, we source organically certified teas. Strong focus on supplying B2B businesses while establishing EU organic certified distribution and packing facility.

2023