Teabox

Teabox (previously known as DarjeelingTeaXpress) is an e-commerce website which focuses on supplying fresh tea to customers. [1]

Early history

Kaushal Dugar founded DarjeelingTeaXpress[2][3] in 2012 with an aim to sell fresh Darjeeling Tea, bootstrapped with less than $33,000. DarjeelingTeaXpress’s products quickly expanded to include teas from Assam, Niligiri and Nepal and became Teabox in October 2013.

With under 20 employees and a customer base spanning 65 countries, Teabox raised seed funding of $1 million[4][5] from Accel Partners and Horizen Ventures in 2014.

Specialization

The tea sourced by Teabox are orthodox long leaves, instead of commercial tea dust manufactured by traditional CTC method. The tea is vacuum packed and sealed in opaque wraps, and procured and shipped to customers within 48 hours of production, cutting short the traditional retail storage period of 3–6 months.

Tea Subscription

In May, 2014 Teabox launched its monthly tea subscription program, Teabox Fresh Beginnings. Members receive samples of various types of tea on a monthly basis.

References

  1. ↑ Lavakare, Jyoti Pande. "Teaxpress: Assamese entrepreneur Kaushal Dugar using e-commerce to supply quality packaged tea". http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/. India Times. Retrieved 30 April 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ Chakrabarty, Shaoli. "Niche tea sellers carve up online presence". http://www.telegraphindia.com. Telegraph India. Retrieved 16 September 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ Dutt, Isha Ayan. "Top it with Tea". http://www.business-standard.com. Business Standard. Retrieved 22 November 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  4. ↑ Millward, Steven. "India’s Teabox gets funding to ship tea direct to your doorstep". http://www.techinasia.com. TechInAsia. Retrieved 17 March 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  5. ↑ Basu, Anik. "Sipping Success". http://businesstoday.intoday.in. Business Today. Retrieved 13 April 2014. External link in |website= (help)


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