DILMA is relatively young compared to more famous tea brands that have been around for over a hundred years. Not many are aware of how Dilmah changed the face of the tea industry worldwide.
As a young man working with the tea growers of Sri Lanka in the 1950s, Merrill J. Fernando, the founder of Dilmah , bore witness to the commoditisation of tea by tea traders from Europe.
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