What makes A. Tosh & Sons the right Private Label Partner for your Tea Brand.

For entrepreneurs and businesses, venturing into tea, launching a new brand or scaling up existing operations is now easy, thanks to successful Private Label manufacturing partnerships. Engaging a private label partner helps in putting together the product. While business owners can focus on developing the marketing strategy, a resourceful Private Label partner is required who can help with a complete back-end production support.

The role of a private label partner also depends on the expertise and experience of the client. From selecting the blends, picking the herbs to choosing the packing material, you will find a complete handholding of the process. However, they must possess the right infrastructure, machinery, process, talent, knowledge and resourceful sourcing potential to offer quality products with good turnaround time.

At A. Tosh, you will find the right blend of knowledge and expertise to help you launch and run a successful tea brand.

An ideal private label partner should have the know-how to guide customers in the fine intricacies of the complete packing process like selecting the flavour, blends, packaging, etc. With an experience of 123 years, serving to the global palate, at A. Tosh, we have mastered the art of ‘Tea’.

We help clients assemble every element of their choice to create the perfect catalogue for their brand. We put together the client’s selection of teas, herbs and flavours into palatable blends that create a niche for the brand. We also guide the clients in selecting the tea based on the market’s tea-drinking preferences that vary from region to region.

From regular tea options to some of the rarest exotic blends, you name it and we shall arrange it. Our ability to source the finest ingredients from across the globe is possible because of our supply partners who are leaders in their fields. We conduct audits/checks before a supply partner is finalized, choosing only the best of the best.

A private label partner also offers guidance related to the kind of packaging most suitable for the product and the image of the brand. At A. Tosh, we understand the product mix, shelf life and customer profile to suggest the right packaging options to our clients, including but not limited to the primary packing (i.e. type of tea bag, pouch), secondary packing (caddies, boxes, etc.), net content, etc. The result is a selection of the right set of packaging for your product!

Sourcing is a key activity in our business. We source a variety of input materials such as tea, herbs, infusions, flavours, fruit pieces, spices, packaging material, from various suppliers. Core to our process is keeping strong vigilance on our sourcing. From local suppliers to international brands, we make sure our vendors adhere to globally accepted standards and follow best practices during their production.

We regularly conduct supplier audits to assess their consistency and norms to quality checks. Another important aspect of this is ethical sourcing. During our supplier audits, we check to ensure that children are not employed, the materials are sourced responsibly, and that no unlawful activities are being carried out.

A good private label partner can ensure consistent quality as long as the right SOPs are followed at all times. At A. Tosh, we adhere to international standards of food safety and hygiene to ensure the highest level of quality in our production process. We follow quality checks at every step of the production process, from sourcing to delivery.

In addition, we have complete forward and backward traceability integrated into our quality management system.

Certifications are important. These serve as validation to the fact that SOPs being followed are benchmarked against industry standards and come in handy as an assessment tool for the clients.

Tosh is certified for leading quality management practices such as:

Other certifications and accreditations include ISO and GMP.

Ongoing regular training and development of our staff ensure best practices are maintained at all times.

Food Safety and Hygiene are growing concerns for the food industry, more so in the wake of the recent developments. A private label partner must ensure that the highest standards of safety practices are adhered to during the processing and packing of food items.

At A. Tosh, we have designed our facility based on Japanese hygiene standards, regarded as the best in the world. With hygiene stations at every entry and exit point, stringent control & practices, and continuous monitoring, we ensure best practices food safety are followed. In the same vein, we expect similar standards at our suppliers’ end with whom we work regularly.

Our facilities are equipped with the latest infrastructure and advanced machines to cater to the diverse needs of our clients. With over 1,80,000 sq. feet of warehousing space at our disposal, we can source input materials at the required levels and hold them for our clients as the need may be.

With a vast repertoire of packing machines, we can pack teas in many different formats and can undertake projects of varying sizes, whether a startup or an established brand.

Our clients repose complete trust in A. Tosh & Sons as their private label partner. In our journey of over a century, we have helped some of the finest tea brands build their success stories globally.