Our Story

More than fifty years ago, in the lush upcountry of Sri Lanka, a young man named M. Thaha grew up surrounded by tea fields. He wasn't born into the business, he grew into it, spending his early years watching the rhythms of the harvest: the picking, the withering, the rolling, the careful attention each leaf demanded before it ever reached a cup. What started as fascination slowly became a calling, and eventually, a decision. He built his own tea manufacturing business from the ground up, driven by one simple standard: only the finest quality would carry his name.

His son, MTM Ameen, grew up in that same world and chose to carry it forward rather than walk away from it. Under his hand, the family's reach expanded, multiple tea estates and factories, each run with the same attention to detail his father had insisted on. This wasn't about scale for its own sake. It was about making sure that as the business grew, nothing about the quality was allowed to slip.

The third generation, MA Aasif Ahamed, took a different kind of leap. Rather than simply managing what came before him, he founded Lakdiva Tea Centre with a bigger question in mind: why should the finest Ceylon tea only be known within Sri Lanka? He set out to bring what his grandfather and father had spent their lives perfecting to the rest of the world.

That's the short version of how we got here. Today, we oversee the entire journey ourselves, from hand-plucking the leaf to the moment it's packed and shipped, so nothing gets diluted along the way. No middlemen changing the blend. No losing track of where it came from. Just three generations of knowing exactly what a proper cup of Ceylon tea should taste like, now proudly making its way to Australian cups.

We're not a big corporate tea brand, and we don't want to pretend to be one. We're a family that happens to know tea better than most, because we've been doing it since before any of us were born. If you ever want to know more about where your tea comes from, we're genuinely happy to tell you, just reach out.