Bother brews as buyers really feel the pressure and swap to cheaper tea manufacturers amid value of dwelling disaster
- PG Ideas, the market chief, has been the worst hit after rising costs
- It bought about 900 million fewer tea luggage within the 12 months to Might
Britons would possibly sometimes flip to a cuppa in occasions of hassle… however the cost-of-living disaster has even hit the sort and quantity of tea we purchase.
Laborious-pressed buyers are slicing again on what they purchase in addition to swapping large names resembling PG Ideas, Yorkshire Tea and Twinings for cheaper grocery store manufacturers.
Total, tea gross sales have fallen 4.3 per cent in a 12 months – however gross sales of personal model brews rose 1.2 per cent.
PG Ideas, the market chief for many years, has been the worst hit after rising costs by 50 per cent – from £2 to £3 for 80 luggage at Tesco.
It bought about 900 million fewer tea luggage within the 12 months to Might.
However Typhoo bucked the decline, with gross sales up a mammoth 60 per cent, because of retaining its costs right down to about 1p per teabag, much like or cheaper than personal manufacturers.
Britons would possibly sometimes flip to a cuppa in occasions of hassle… however the cost-of-living disaster has even hit the sort and quantity of tea we purchase

PG Ideas, the market chief for many years, has been the worst hit after rising costs by 50 per cent – from £2 to £3 for 80 luggage at Tesco
However different suppliers have been mountain climbing costs, so though much less tea was bought, the quantity we spent on it as a nation rose 2.5 per cent.
Yorkshire Tea continues to be Britain’s high model and noticed gross sales rise £9.3million to £143million a 12 months.
That was right down to a 8 per cent hike – it really bought 109,000 fewer kilos of tea.
Information was compiled by NIQ and Kantar and reported in The Grocer.
Polina Jones at NIQ mentioned: ‘Switching from a model to personal label is a well-liked tactic to maintain spending down.’