Clipper
Score
4/5European, but not fully within the EU or EEA.
Clipper is a British tea brand and was the UK's first Fairtrade tea company. It sells organic black tea, green tea, infusions and coffee, blended and packed in the United Kingdom. The brand belongs to Ecotone UK, part of the Ecotone group, which is controlled by the French investment firm PAI Partners.
What we know
- Owner
Ecotone, FranceEU
Private equity control
- Headquarters
Camberley, United KingdomEurope
- Production
United Kingdom(main)Europe
- Available in
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Not yet verified
- Whether there are large shareholders outside Europe
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Ownership chain
- Clipper
- Ecotone UKBrand ownerUnited KingdomEurope
- EcotoneBrand ownerFranceEU
- PAI Partners SASParent companyFranceEU
Sources
- Ecotone
- Clipper Tea Shop
- Clipper Tea Shop
- Ecotone
- Impact Report 2023: Ecotone's legal form, its registration in the Lyon Trade and Companies Register and its headquarters in France
- Ecotone
- Impact Report 2023: headquarters at 217 chemin du Grand Revoyet, 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval, France
- Offer memorandum PAI and Jobson, Koninklijke Wessanen N.V., 11 July 2019: PAI Partners SAS is a French portfolio management company registered in Paris, and the PAI Fund holds 62% of the shares of the bidding joint venture
Last verified on 26 September 2026.