founder mcarthur and willis headquarters belfast northern ireland key people robert samuel thompson products teas website www.punjana.com current punjana packaging punjana is a brand of tea produced by the belfast based tea company punjana limited . punjana was founded in 1896 by the thompson family . it has since become one of the most popular brands in ireland and scotland . it buys its teas from tea gardens in assam north india and on the slopes of mount kenya . contents 1 history 2 trivia 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was originally founded by mcarthur and willis near the docklands of belfast . in 1896 robert samuel thompson who had been in the tea business since 1887 and had studied the art of tea tasting was made a partner . he led the company for 51 years . the association of the company with the thompson family was strengthened when in the post war years when james and tony thompson also became partners in the company . they were responsible for the birth and the development of the punjana brand . ross and david thompson are currently the joint managing directors of punjana limited and are responsible for the tea tasting . trivia edit the name punjana was taken from an inscription relating to the punjab on the gillespie statue in comber square comber northern ireland . 60 000 cups of punjana tea are drunk every hour of the day 365 days a year . 1 references edit punjana bag 2.5 m packaging investment external links edit official website this tea related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title punjana & oldid 709513048 categories tea brandstea stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 march 2016 at 10 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view