page_title: Typhoo
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Typhoo / History
caption_attribution_description: This is the former Typhoo Tea factory and canal wharf in Digbeth, Birmingham. It is to be redeveloped into apartments.
context_page_description: Typhoo is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 1903 by John Sumner Jr. of Birmingham, England.
context_section_description: In 1863, William Sumner published A Popular Treatise on Tea as a by-product of the first trade missions to China from London.
  In 1870, William and his son John founded a pharmacy/grocery business in Birmingham. William's grandson, John Sumner Jr. (born in 1856), took over the running of the business in the 1900s.  Following comments from his sister on the calming effects of tea fannings, in 1903, John Jr. decided to create a new tea that he could sell in his shop.
  Sumner set his own criteria for the new brand:
  The name had to be distinctive and unlike others.
  It had to be a name that would trip off the tongue.
  It had to be one that would be protected by registration.
  The name Typhoo comes from the Chinese word for "doctor" (traditional Chinese: 大夫, hanyu pinyin: dàifū).
  Typhoo began making tea bags in 1967. In 1978 production was moved from Birmingham to Moreton on the Wirral peninsula in Cheshire. The Moreton site is also the location of Burton's Foods and Manor Bakeries factories.
  In 2005 the company was sold by Premier Foods plc to the Indian conglomerate Apeejay Surrendra Group, of which it is now a subsidiary.
caption: Former Typhoo Tea factory and canal wharf in Digbeth, Birmingham
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