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Tenfu Tea

A China-based tea company specializing in tea products and tea-related foods.

Last updated October 9, 2026

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Overview

Ten Fu Group is a China-based tea company founded in 1993 by Li Ruihe. The business is associated with the Tenfu Tea or Tian Fu Tea name and focuses on tea and tea-food products. Its activities span the development, processing, marketing, and sale of tea-related goods, supported by retail and tea-culture activities. The group is best known for Tenfu Tea, written in Chinese as 天福茗茶, and is positioned around packaged tea, traditional Chinese tea consumption, and associated tea merchandise. The company operates within the broader Chinese tea industry, where branded presentation, product variety, gift packaging, preparation knowledge, and retail accessibility are important parts of the customer proposition. In addition to tea leaves and processed tea products, its range is associated with tea foods and related accessories such as teaware. This gives the business a broader consumer offering than a single tea cultivar or commodity line, while keeping tea culture at the center of the brand identity. Ten Fu Group is headquartered in Zhangzhou, Fujian, a major tea-producing region in China. Its stated business footprint includes mainland China as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia. The group was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2011 under ticker 06868.HK. Publicly available reference material is limited regarding the group’s current executive structure, detailed financial performance, product-level launch dates, and recent strategic initiatives; those fields are therefore left unspecified rather than inferred.

History

Ten Fu Group was established in 1993 by Li Ruihe in China. The company developed around tea as both a consumer product and a cultural category, combining tea-related production and processing with branded sales and promotion. Its identity is commonly rendered as Tenfu Tea, Ten Fu, or Tian Fu Tea in English-language references, while the Chinese brand name is 天福茗茶. The group’s business model is associated with a broad tea portfolio rather than a single product. Tea products form the core of the business, complemented by tea foods and related merchandise such as teaware. This combination allows the company to address everyday tea consumption, packaged and gift-oriented purchases, and consumers interested in the preparation and presentation of Chinese tea. The company’s association with tea culture is therefore part of its commercial identity as well as a communications theme. Fujian serves as the group’s headquarters and is also one of China’s important tea regions. From this base, Ten Fu Group has developed a market presence described as covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and parts of Southeast Asia. The exact structure and scale of operations in each market are not established by the available reference material. Ten Fu Group became a publicly listed company in Hong Kong in 2011, trading under the ticker 06868.HK. The listing marked an important corporate milestone, although the supplied sources do not provide enough verified information to describe the offering, ownership changes, financial results, or post-listing strategy in detail. The company is distinct from other businesses that use similar tea-related names. The relevant encyclopedia subject is Ten Fu Group, a China-based tea and tea-food company, rather than a different international brand or an unrelated organization. Available reference material confirms the company’s core category and brand names but does not document a detailed chronology of product generations, advertising campaigns, controversies, acquisitions, leadership changes, or recent corporate decisions. Those areas remain open for further source-based research.

  • 2011

    Hong Kong stock-market listing

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    Ten Fu Group was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under ticker 06868.HK.

  • 1993

    Company founded

    [1]

    Ten Fu Group was founded in China by Li Ruihe and began developing a tea-centered business.

Products and positioning

A branded Chinese tea and tea-culture business serving packaged-tea, tea-food, gift, and related teaware needs.

  • Tea

    Tenfu Tea

    The group’s principal tea brand, also known as Tian Fu Tea, offering branded Chinese tea products through the company’s broader tea business. Available references identify the brand with Ten Fu Group but do not provide a verified complete list of cultivars, formats, or current product sub-lines.

  • Tea-related food

    Tea-food products

    Food products associated with the company’s tea business and tea-consumption occasions. The supplied reference identifies tea foods as a core area of specialization but does not specify a complete product catalogue or individual launch chronology.

  • Tea accessories

    Teaware and tea accessories

    Tea-related merchandise supporting preparation, serving, presentation, and gift-oriented consumption. The available materials associate the group with tea products and tea culture but do not establish a detailed list of current accessory ranges.

Controversies

  • 2012

    Greenpeace pesticide residue report sparks controversy, involving Tenfu tea samples

    In April 2012, a Greenpeace report said tea samples, including Ten Fu's Biluochun, were found to contain banned pesticide ingredients; Caixin reported industry disputes over the testing and standards. The item is a civil-society test report and should not be overstated as a government spot check or a blanket finding of illegality.

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