no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . august 2016 teekanne gmbh & co. kg founded 16 . july 1882 dresden headquarters d sseldorf germany number of employees 1500 website www.teekanne.com teekanne gmbh & co. kg is a german tea trading company based in d sseldorf . the founders rudolf anders and eugen nissle were the first to sell tea in tins and already mixed teas on a high quality level . furthermore they went on to invent the machine made tea bag citation needed . 1 today the family run company is still the world leading company in the production of tea bags and produces 7.5 million tea bags per year . 2 contents 1 history 2 subsidaries 3 references 4 external links history edit teekanne then known under the name r.seelig & hille was found on 16 july 1882 dresden . 3 in 1888 the company was renamed theekanne old german spelling for teekanne meaning teapot and registered as a trademark . the registration number 6541 makes it one of germany s oldest trademarks still existing . 4 the two employees eugen nissle and rudolf anders bought the company in 1892 ; the first to sell blended packaged tea . the company has remained family owned ever since . in 1912 the tea brand teefix was registered along with the pompadour brand . during the world war i teekanne provides soldiers and civilian with so called tea bombs a sweet portion of tea in small gauze bags . these handmade bags are the precursor to the modern tea bag 5 6 in 1929 the first tea bag packing machine worldwide is launched designed by adolf rambold an employee of the company . the pompadour machine can produce 35 gauze bags in one minute . in 1931 the next generation ernst rudolf anders and johannes nissle take over the family business . anders takes part in the trip of the lz 129 hindenburg in the us 1937 and dies during the hindenburg explosion in lakehurst united states . during the last days of world war ii dresden and teekanne take heavy damage . in 1946 the restoration of the company begins in modest surroundings in viersen germany on the lower rhine . in 1948 a company for the production of tea bags is founded called teepack . adolf rambold becomes co owner 7 and unveils his fully automatic tea bag machine the constanta in 1949 . it produces up to 160 double chamber tea bags a minute . the revolutionary double chamber tea bag is protected by patent . the company moves his head offices to d sseldorf in 1957 . the further development of the constanta is launched the perfecta . she produces 400 double chamber bags in a minute and is sold worldwide . teekanne austria was found in salzburg with their own production in 1951 . in 1996 it takes over the sugar substitute brand kandisin in vienna the market leader in the austria . in 1991 teekanne returns to its roots and acquires teehaus gmbh formerly veb kaffee und tee in radebeul near dresden . this brings teekanne back to dresden its original location . 2006 the german tennis legend steffi graf becomes the new face and brand ambassador of teekanne . sixty years after the production was placed in d sseldorf heerdt teekanne opened a new production hall . due to the high efficiency it has been the latest production hall in europe in 2014 . 8 subsidaries edit the following companies belong to the teekanne group teepack spezialmaschinen gmbh & co. kg d sseldorf germany 1948 teekanne ges.m.b.h salzburg austria 1951 pompadour te srl gmbh bolzano italy 1964 pompadour iberica s.a alicante spain 1985 teehaus gmbh radebeul dresden germany 1991 teekanne polska krakow poland 1992 teekanne cesca prague czech republic 1994 redco foods inc. windsor connecticut usa 1995 junket red rose tea united states salada united states references edit 1 stadf hrer dresen wissenswetes ber dresen tourguide dresdenm things to know about dresen retrieved 07 26 2016 lars mueller dresden und meissner land s chsische zeitung 16th of july 2007 page 15 dresdner druck und verlagshaus gmbh & co kg . dresden h. morgenbesser die teewirtschaft deutsche gro betriebe band 2 page 48 hans christoph reisner verlag berlin 1957 h. morgenbesser die teewirtschaft deutsche gro betriebe band 2 page 50 hans christoph reisner verlag berlin 1957 2 stadf hrer dresen wissenswetes ber dresen tourguide dresdenm things to know about dresen retrieved 07 26 2016 der tee und seine experten page 36 teekanne gmbh d sseldorf 1982 h. morgenbesser die teewirtschaft deutsche gro betriebe band 2 page 52 53 hans christoph reisner verlag berlin 1957 3 jeschenko media agency retrieved 2016 07 22 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title teekanne company & oldid 744500405 categories tea companiestea in europedrink companies of germanycompanies based in d sseldorfcompanies established in 18881888 establishments in germanyhidden categories orphaned articles from august 2016all orphaned articlesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch suomi edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 17 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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