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PG Tips is available as loose tea, tea bags, and in vending formats. A "Special Blend" tea, which is the same as the tea blended for the brand's 75th anniversary, is available in tea bag form only.
The tea used in PG Tips is imported in bulk as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time (depending on season, etc.) at the Trafford Park factory in Manchester.
PG Tags, tea bags with a string, were launched in 1985, and pyramid-shaped (tetrahedron) tea bags in 1996 (branded as Pyramid Bags). The pyramid-shaped bag was designed to help the tea leaves move more freely, as loose tea moves in a teapot, and supposedly create a better infusion. One 2011 version of the product packaging makes the claim: "The PG Tips pyramid tea bag gives the tea leaves 50% more room to move around than a flat conventional tea bag. So the tea bag works more like a miniature tea pot. This allows for all the freshness to be released for the best tasting cup of PG." During the T-Birds era, the pyramid tea bags were remade with a "freeflow" material, to allow the tea to infuse better.
The Brooke Bond name has now been dropped from all packaging, and the product is now known as PG Tips.
In Scotland, Unilever sells a specially developed blend of PG. It is called Scottish Blend.
In the Republic of Ireland, Unilever sells tea under the Lyons brand.
PG tips, Scottish Blend and Lyons teas are exported by Unilever UK & Ireland Export, based in Unilever UK & Ireland's Head Office Leatherhead, through a worldwide network of food distributors.
As of 2011, a "Special Moments" range was released, initially as the "New Ones". These teas were made by pressing the leaves.
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