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

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

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

C Shreedharan, Convener, TGLIA: STC, in a release, said that 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 tasters and major buyers.

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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