Kusmi Tea

Kusmi Tea is a traditional tea company headquartered in Paris, 1867 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pavel Michailovitch Kousmichoff ( Павел Михайлович Кузьмичёв, 1840-1908 ) was founded. The company is especially known for its exclusive tea blends and classic teas in the colorful Baroque doses.

History

In 1867 Pavel Michailovitch Kousmichoff, eldest son of a peasant family, the teahouse PM Kousmichoff in St. Petersburg that the Czar's court was one of the leading tea houses of Russia and suppliers. 1901 had Kousmichoff eleven tea shops, and his company was one of the three largest tea houses of Russia. Opened in 1907, his son Viatcheslav the English branch PM Kousmichoff & Sons and took over in 1908 after his father's death and his return to Russia, the management of the company. 1917 Kousmichoff fled before the October Revolution to Paris. There Viatcheslav opened the house Kusmi - Thé.

Between the two world wars the company and Viatcheslav New York grew founded numerous branches, including Konstantin Opel, and also in Berlin. Since there was a large Russian community in Berlin at the time, he set up a headquarters of his company.

Viatcheslav died in 1946. His son Constantin, an artist and tea lovers, became his successor. However, Constantine did not bring the same interest in the company to as its predecessors, so it 1972 on the verge of bankruptcy, the family sold cheap. The new owners had just as Constantin Although a sense of art and flavors of tea, but the business side was not even them. Thus, the success of Kusmi Tea was only moderately in the following years.

2003, the traditional family-owned company was bought by the Orebi brothers. They promoted the international presence of the brand Kusmi Tea, which is successful to this day and is available worldwide. 2007 taught Kusmi Tea 's new tea boutique in the St. Germain des Pres in Paris. Designed by the architect Guillaume Cochin is set in the modern boutique all the teas as well as numerous accessories in scene. In December 2009, a boutique in the heart of Paris, between the Place Vendôme and the Opéra was inaugurated in an art deco business from 1920. In 2009 the company established a German online shop. Since 2009 Oschätzchen, Hamburg operates a large Kusmi shop Alsterhaus.