# Bushells

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**Bushells** is an Australian brand that produces tea and coffee. Tea products are owned by [Lipton Teas and Infusions](/source/Lipton_Teas_and_Infusions), while the coffee business is owned by FreshFood Services.

## History

Bushells was founded by Alfred Bushell in 1883, when he opened a tea shop in [Queensland](/source/Queensland). His sons moved the enterprise to [Sydney](/source/Sydney) in 1899 and began selling tea commercially, founding Australia's first commercial tea seller.[1] A Bushells tea factory was set up in Harrington Street, Sydney, and a coffee roasting department at Atherton Place in [The Rocks](/source/The_Rocks,_New_South_Wales).[2]

In 1940, members of the Bushell family acquired the heritage-listed Sydney house, [Carthona](/source/Carthona,_Darling_Point).[3] In the 1980s, the company diversified its coffee manufacturing under the Bushells Coffee brand.[citation needed]

In 1998, as part of an acquisition of coffee brands from [Unilever](/source/Unilever), FreshFood Services Pty Ltd purchased the Bushells Coffee brand.[4] FreshFood also purchased the New Zealand division of Bushells Coffee.[citation needed] The tea brand remained with Unilever until 2022 when it was divested along with most of Unilever’s tea business to [CVC Capital Partners](/source/CVC_Capital_Partners) as [Lipton Teas and Infusions](/source/Lipton_Teas_and_Infusions). Coffee continues to be produced at the [Concord](/source/Concord,_New_South_Wales) factory.

FreshFood announced a long-term plan[when?] to close the Concord factory. As of January 2018, planning was still in the early stages and the closure was at least three to five years away.[5]

## See also

- [Tea in Australia](/source/Tea_in_Australia)
- [List of oldest companies in Australia](/source/List_of_oldest_companies_in_Australia)
- [List of tea companies](/source/List_of_tea_companies)

## References

1. ["Bushells - Our Cuppa Since 1883"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200311034803/https://www.bushells.com.au/). Archived from [the original](http://www.bushells.com.au/) on 11 March 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

1. Photographs of Bushell's Factory workers; and 'Kismet' (Phillip Bushell's home), 1936-1937, Arthur J. Brown, State Library of New South Wales, [PXE 1554](http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110351714)

1. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

1. ["Bushells Coffee - An Iconic Part of Australian Coffee History"](https://www.bushellscoffee.com.au/our-story/). *Bushells Coffee*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160804111507/http://www.bushellscoffee.com.au:80/our-story) 4 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2020-03-16.

1. ["Bushells Redevelopment Concord"](http://www.bushellsredevelopment.com.au/). *Bushell's Redevelopment Concord*. Retrieved 2020-03-16.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.bushells.com.au/)

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