Who owns TESS?
TESS is owned by Orimi Trade (Russia).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Orimi Trade Group of Companies — History. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Orimi Trade Group of Companies reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇷🇺 Russia, Saint Petersburg
- Origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Category
- Beverages › Coffee, tea & hot drinks › Tea
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About TESS
TESS is a premium-positioned tea brand from Orimi Trade aimed at consumers with an active lifestyle, offering black and green teas as well as blends with natural berries and fruit in both loose-leaf and teabag formats. Orimi's own pages give two different introduction years for it — 2007 on the company history timeline and 2009 on its product portfolio page — so no founding year is recorded here pending clarification.
Ownership timeline of TESS
- Current owner Orimi Trade [1] reported
Where TESS sits in Orimi Trade
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Orimi Trade brand portfolio (8) →
Other brands owned by Orimi Trade
Orimi Trade controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Gita (1995)
- Jardin (2007)
- Jockey (1999)
- Pearl of the Nile (2003)
- Princess Java (1995)
- Princess Kandy (1994)
- Princess Noori (1995)
Other brands in tea, and who owns them
Orimi Trade has more brands in tea on Brandtree than any other owner: 6 of 35.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fahari Ya Kenya | Ketepa | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| Ran Kahata | Sunshine Holdings | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| Five Roses | AVI | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| ITO EN Matcha Green Tea | ITO EN | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Piala Gold | RG Brands | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Tata Tea | Tata Consumer | 🇮🇳 India |
| Good Nature | Alkaloid | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia |
| Final | Azersun | 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan |
About the owner: Orimi Trade
Orimi Trade is a privately held company headquartered in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1994. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
Orimi Trade was established on 12 October 1994 in Saint Petersburg and grew into Russia's largest importer and packer of tea and roasted coffee, a position it describes by saying every third cup of tea or roasted coffee drunk in Russia comes from its factories. It built its own production base at Nevskie Porogi in the Leningrad Region from 2000, later renamed the Orimi factory, and added coffee roasting and instant-coffee lines through the 2000s and 2010s. The company ranks among the roughly two hundred largest privately held companies in Russia by Forbes' count, and its house of tea and coffee brands — several under the "Princess" name, plus standalone coffee and tea marks — has repeatedly taken leading market-share positions in both categories.
🇷🇺 TESS and other Russian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 75 brands that began in Russia. 5 of them (7%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; TESS is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of TESS?
The parent company of TESS is Orimi Trade, a privately held company headquartered in Russia.
Is TESS Russian?
Yes. TESS originated in Russia and its owner, Orimi Trade, is also headquartered in Russia.
Is TESS still owned by Orimi Trade?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, TESS is still owned by Orimi Trade. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Orimi Trade Group of Companies — History — Orimi Trade Group of Companies, Official document; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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