Durrant Pate/Contributor

Manufacturing company Jamaican Teas is selling its Bell Road tea factory in St Andrew.

The factory is being sold to a third-party purchaser. The company has already entered into a sales agreement, dated Tuesday (March 12).

Completion of the sale will take place sometime next month. In the meantime, Jamaican Teas will continue to occupy the premises until this August by which date its tea packing operations will relocate to the group’s premises at Temple Hall, St Andrew.

Last year, Jamaican Teas bought its current property in Temple Hall for its factory expansion. The property in question comprises some 60,000 square feet of factory buildings on about three acres of land. 

It was stated then that the property would be used to house Jamaica Teas’ manufacturing facilities located at Bell Road and Montgomery Avenue in St Andrew. 

Two years ago the company completed the long-awaited expansion of its Bell Road tea factory. 

The expansion resulted in the factory increasing its output by 50 per cent more non-tea products arising from the factory space expanding from 22,000 square feet to 34,000 square feet.