Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Company Private Ltd and Woodbriar Group of companies have won six awards each at the tenth edition of The Golden Leaf India Award: Southern Tea Competition (TGLIA: STC) held at Dubai.

TGLIA: STC at Dubai has coincided with the Global Dubai Tea Forum held on April 9.

At the tea competition, Harrisons Malayalam Ltd won four awards, Devon Plantations and Industries Ltd, Joonktollee Tea and Industries Ltd, Kodanad Estate and Vigneshwar Estate Tea Factory won three awards each, United Nilgiri Tea Estates Company Ltd won two awards and Bhavani Tea and Produce Company Ltd, Bluegate Beverages Ltd, Hittakkal Estate Tea Factory and Poabs Organic Products Private Ltd bagged one award each.

C Shreedharan, Convener, TGLIA: STC, in a release, said the competition saw 76 short-listed teas that qualified the first and second level of screening.

Winners were evaluated by a panel of international jury comprising of renowned tasters and major buyers at Dubai on. They are Kurush Bharucha, Gulf (FZE), Mike Jones, UK, Mohsin M Saify, Pakistan, Sanjay Sethi, Dubai and Yahya Beyad, UK.

The certificates to the winners were distributed by the jury members in Dubai on April 10, the concluding day of the Global Dubai Tea Forum 2014.

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