Madura Tea Estates

Madura Tea Estates is an Australian company that produces tea.

In 1978, Mike and Norma Grant-Cook, tea planters from Ceylon, established the Madura Tea Estates in Murwillumbah (Tweed River valley) in north-eastern New South Wales. Madura produces Assam tea and green tea (the latter is locally produced since 1989^[1]), which is blended with Sri Lanka (Ceylon) tea.^[2][3][4] As of 2000, the company was 100% Australian-owned.^[5] The "Madura Tea" production started in 1982, as of 2003, 25 hectares were used for the plantation.^[6]

Madura Tea packagings are 100% recyclable.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Madura Tea dumped^{[clarification needed]} halal certification in Australia.^[11]

Tea primarily targets the domestic market as part of the "buy Australia" campaign.^[3] Like its competitors, Tea Estates of Australia and Nerada Tea, Madura Tea established a visitor center, where tourists can taste and buy samples.^[12] Madura Tea became the official tea of Parliament House in Sydney in 2013 (replacing Twinings).^[13]