BOH Plantations
Largest black tea manufacturer in Malaysia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BOH Plantations Sdn Bhd (doing business as BOH) is the largest black tea manufacturer in Malaysia, with both domestic and international distribution. The BOH tea plantation, which is located in Cameron Highlands, Pahang, is also the largest tea plantation in the country.
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 BOH tea estate | |
| Company type | Private limited company |
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| Industry | Tea |
| Founded | 1929 in Cameron Highlands, Malaya |
| Founder | J.A. Russell[1] |
| Headquarters | , Malaysia[2] |
| Products | Tea |
| Website | bohtea |
BOH Plantations was founded in 1929 by J. A. Russell, a British-born businessman, during the British colonial era in Malaya. Russell arrived in Kuala Lumpur at age seven, in 1890; the country's primary export at the time was tin. Prior to BOH, Russell had worked in the Straits Trading Company, learning to speak several Chinese dialects (along with Malay) and making connections with wealthy Chinese tin miners. Besides investing in tin, Russell and his brothers (Philip, Donald, and Robert) put money in the nascent rubber industry in 1908. J. A. and Philip also invested in railway-related construction, including the new[when?] Kuala Lumpur railway station. In 1913, Russell purchased almost a third of the real estate in the town of Ipoh. He and Donald (a mining engineer from the Colorado School of Mines) founded a colliery at Batu Arang, Selangor, around 25 kilometres from the capital.
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Despite the worldwide Great Depression at the time BOH was founded in 1929, Russell was optimistic about the tea plantation business, due to steady demand. He was granted[when?] a land concession (together with veteran tea planter A.B. Milne from Ceylon) for the first BOH tea garden in Habu. At the time, the land was undeveloped jungle terrain, on steep slopes; with a steamroller and mule teams, the stepped plantation was created.
As of 2016, BOH Plantations owned four tea gardens: in Habu, Fairlie Tea Garden, Sungai Palas Tea Garden, and Bukit Cheeding in Selangor.[3] There is a packaging factory near the main garden, and the company offers tours.[4][5] Together, these four plantations total about 1,200 hectares of land and produce about 4 million kg of tea every year, accounting for about 70% of Malaysian tea output.[3]
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