About Numi

Numi Organic Tea blends premium organic teas and herbs with only 100% real ingredients, allowing nature to speak for itself. As a pioneering, quadruple-bottom line company (people, planet, product, profit), Numi sources its teas and ingredients directly from fair labor gardens that pay farmers and workers fair wages that allow their families to thrive. Over half of Numi’s teas are sourced from Fair Trade Certified gardens, which empower tea growers to invest Fair Trade premiums back into their communities. Fair Trade premiums earned on tea gardens have helped procure and develop new roads, cooking stoves, mosquito nets, schools, college scholarships, maternity benefits, onsite medical staff and life insurance for farming families.

It was important to us to belong to a group that represents our values and helps support and sustain these values into the future. We believe in surrounding ourselves with like-minded individuals that care about our future and the future of humankind. B Corporations have very high values which are aligned with everything Numi believes in.

Numi is a company committed to reducing its impact on the planet through ecologically responsible choices in sourcing, production and recycled and non-GMO packaging. Numi Organic Tea sources organic teas and herbs, which helps protect the health of farmers, the consumer and the planet. Numi Organic Tea uses natural, biodegradable, filter-paper tea bags, rather than GMO corn or plastic “silky” tea sachets. Numi’s tea boxes are made of 85% post-consumer waste, printed with soy-based inks and without unneeded shrink-wrap. Numi Organic Tea partners with programs that lower and offset carbon emissions, including a solar-powered production facility.

The Change We Seek®

Numi Organic Tea is committed to sourcing USDA Certified Organic teas and herbs. Conventional tea growing and processing exposes workers to harmful chemicals, which are sprayed directly onto the tea leaves.

Numi is highly committed to ethical sourcing that supports the rights and livelihoods of farmers and farm workers. Numi works with Fair Trade USA to source as many Fair Trade Certified products as are currently available within Numi’s innovation and quality standards. Numi also has worked diligently to fill in the gaps where Fair Trade Certified is not yet applicable, and has been instrumental in the launch of the new Fair Labor Practices and Community Benefits Certification developed by Scientific Certification Systems, a leading U.S. standards developer and certifier in sectors such as food, forestry, fisheries, and cut flowers. Numi began purchasing Fair Trade Certified teas in April 2005 and is now one of the top importers of Fair Trade Certified tea to the US. Since that time, the company has purchased over 358,000 pounds of tea from 17 different Fair Trade tea estates in six countries resulting in more than $134,800 in social program funds benefitting tea workers all over the world.

All of Numi’s packaging materials are biodegradable and/or recyclable, and its retail products are cello-wrap free. More than 95% of our packaging materials incorporate the use of post-consumer waste or bamboo. In the village of Guangxi, China, bamboo producers converted from using petroleumbased lacquer to using 100% natural lacquer in 2004. In 2007, Numi switched to soy-based inks for the printing of its retail cartons and other printed materials.

Founding B Corporation

Numi Organic Tea

• Industry: Food & Beverage
• Product/Services: Organic Teas
• Location: Oakland, CA
• http://www.numitea.com