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Bushells
Founded1883; 141 years ago (1883)
FounderAlfred Bushell
Headquarters
Australia
Productstea and coffee
ParentFreshFood Services
Websitewww.bushells.com.au
Shopfront: Bushell's Coffee & Cocoa
Phillip Bushell's Bently and Factory, Harrington Street, Sydney, 1936 - 1937.

Bushells is an Australian company that produces tea and coffee.

History

Bushell's was founded by Alfred Bushell in 1883, when he opened a tea shop in Queensland. His sons moved the enterprise to Sydney in 1899 and began selling tea commercially, founding Australia's first commercial tea seller.[1] A Bushell tea factory was set up in Harrington Street Sydney and a coffee roasting department at Atherton Place in The Rocks.[2]

Members of the Bushell family acquired the heritage-listed Sydney house, Carthona, in 1940.[3] In the 1980s the company diversified its coffee manufacturing under the Bushells Coffee brand.[citation needed]

In 1998, as part of an acquisition of coffee brands from Unilever, FreshFood Services Pty Ltd purchased the Bushell's Coffee brand.[4] The tea brand still remains with Unilever. The coffee continues to be produced at the Concord factory. FreshFood also purchased the New Zealand division of Bushells Coffee.[citation needed]

FreshFood, the owner and operator of the Bushell's Coffee Factory at 160 Burwood Road, Concord, has recently announced a long-term plan to close the existing factory. As of January 2018, planning is still in the early stages and the closure is at least 3-5 years away.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bushells - Our Cuppa Since 1883
  2. ^ Photographs of Bushell's Factory workers; and 'Kismet' (Phillip Bushell's home), 1936-1937, Arthur J. Brown, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 1554
  3. ^ "Carthona". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H555. Retrieved 16 March 2020. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
  4. ^ "Bushells Coffee - An Iconic Part of Australian Coffee History". Bushells Coffee. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Bushells Redevelopment Concord". Bushell's Redevelopment Concord. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
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