Company overview- Harrisons Malayalam Ltd.,(HML), started by the pioneers from the UK, today, a part of the RPG Group, has become an integral part of the life in Kerala. The company's main business comprises of producing and processing tea besides, rubber, engineering and biotechnology and trading of tea. Company with over 10,000 hectares under cultivation is the largest producer of rubber in India having its own Research & Development Centre, constantly supporting the plantation activities. Similarly with over 6000 hectares of tea estates in Kerala / Tamil Nadu it is also the second largest producer of tea in South India. Known for the high quality of its tea crop through innovative practices followed, and CTC (crush, tear, curl) or orthodox tea, it enables the company to fetch a premium in the market. It is now concentrating on the packed tea market, where margins are higher.

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Company's main business includes the producing and processing tea, rubber, engineering and biotechnology and trading of tea. Harrisons Malayalam is India's largest rubber plantation company with nine major rubber plantations, and the second largest tea producer in south India, owning 10 tea plantations. The rubber and tea plantations are spread over more than 20,000 hectares of land in South India. Harrison is also India\'s largest producer of pineapples. Harrisons Malayalam has divisions for tea, rubber, spices and horticulture crops, tissue culture, engineering and services, marketing of branded consumer products, trading and exports, clearing and shipping. It produces about 20 million kg of tea per annum through its 10 tea estates and 12 tea factories. It has 10 rubber estates producing 8.5 million Kg of its own and processes another 1.5 million Kg from others.

The company produces over 25,000 tons of pineapple for domestic and export markets. It also cultivates passion fruit, cloves, pepper chilies, ginger, cardamom, cocoa, coconuts, areca nut and medicinal plants. The company has a modern tissue culture laboratory at Hosur, Tamil Nadu with a capacity of four million plants per annum. Harrisons Malayalam undertakes turnkey, electrical engineering, civil and structural engineering, and mechanical engineering projects for clients like Alberto Bertuzzi SpA
(Italy), BPL India Group, Cochin Special Economic Zone, among others.

It markets branded consumer products like Surya Tea, Mountain Mist, Harrisons Gold and Spencer`s and exports tea to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, New Zealand, USA and

Canada. Clients include Twinings, Lab International, George S. Daras, Ams Baeshen, among others.

The company engages in clearing and shipping activities with 12,000 sq. ft. of godown space close to Cochin port, six stuffing points, and can carry out in-house stuffing of
300 containers/month. Clients include Sentinel Tea and Exports, Ramesh Exports, among others. The company recently bagged three awards at the third Golden Leaf India Awards and is ISO certified.