Dilmah turns 40
Sunday Island
|June 15, 2025
Sri Lanka's flagship international Tea brand, Dilmah, celebrates 40 years this year, with renewed commitment to Teamaker Merrill J. Fernando's founding promise of Quality, Integrity and Kindness.
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2nd and 3rd generation guardians of that legacy were joined in Colombo by 350 guests from the Dilmah Global Family in celebrating the milestone achievement. Founded in 1985 by the legendary late teamaker Merrill J. Fernando, Dilmah was the first genuinely ethical, producer-owned tea brand in the world.
The significance of Dilmah is the sincerity of its Founder's wish to embed kindness to people and nature into the heart of the brand. That philosophy was implemented in the 1970s, when economists defined the social responsibility of business as the production of profit and stakeholder value.
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