About Us

Our story began in 1959, when patriarch of the family, late Shamsher Bahadur Giri, father of our current Managing Director, began planting Nepal's first privately owned tea company, Giribandhu Tea Estate P. Ltd. It wasnt until 1962, that the plantation became commercially operational, and began producing tea leaves - a processing plant was established to manufacture the then, industry standard Orthodox Black tea.

In the 1970's, and with increasing demand for tea, the companys' first CTC production line was installed in 1977, significantly increasing production. Within increasing demand, in the early 90's, the companys' second tea plantation, Samsher & Gangadevi Tea Estate began commercially producing tea, and later in 2001 our smallest planation, Yeatin Tea Estate was established.

Business development was halted for a decade, during the Maoists war. In 2014, the companys' new factory, Samsher & Gangadevi Tea Co. came into commercial operation, and again in 2019, our third processing plant, solely for export based Orthodox and Green tea began commercial operation.