A tea story that has been brewing in the Darjeeling hills for a while has now come to fruition with Makaibari tea estate owner Rajah Banerjee selling off almost 90% stake to the Luxmi Group.

A special lot of handcrafted tea from the 155-year-old Makaibari Tea Estate in Kurseong sold recently for $1850 (around Rs 1.11 lakh) a kilo, thus becoming the most expensive Indian tea ever sold. And ...

If Fortnum’s can do it, so can Makaibari. The famous London-based department store, which supplies groceries and provisions to the British Royal family, has come up with a plethora of merchandise to ...

Makaibari, arguably the finest tea that the rolling greens and snow-capped mountains of Darjeeling have to offer, is checking into Taj Bengal, in a rare instance of the popular beverage finding a ...

A fire destroyed a major portion of the famous Makaibari tea garden’s bungalow in Kurseong in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, on Thursday. Officials told The Telegraph that the building was home to ...

Over a hundred years old, Luxmi Tea Group was started by Paresh Chandra Chatterjee, a member of the Nationalist group, Anushilan Samiti when he decided to develop a tea plantation in independent ...

Owing to the prolonged agitation in Darjeeling last year, the entire Makaibari crop, except the first flush, was destroyed, leading to a loss of around Rs 3 crore, Chatterjee said. (Website) Luxmi Tea ...

At present, there are 10 such stores located in prominent malls in the city. "We plan to set up 100 exclusive Makaibari branded stores in the country in the next three years. During the current fiscal ...

Kolkata: Luxmi Tea, which owns the iconic Makaibari brand, would set up 100 exclusive stores across the country in the next three years, a company official said. At present, there are 10 such stores ...