As an independent retailer, what if you chose to entrust your range of teas and infusions to a small family-run business, a French blender and producer committed to the environment?
Choose craftsmanship, made in France and family-run businesses
Today’s small businesses are facing major challenges: rising raw material prices, successive crises, inflation that is eating away at consumer budgets, changing consumer habits, ever-present teleworking, particularly in towns and cities…
It seems more necessary than ever for independent retailers to make strong choices in terms of products and suppliers, in order to offer a range that embodies social and environmental values.
The premium local retail sector is succeeding in differentiating itself, now and in the future, by moving away from industrial products and the big, well-known brands that are already ‘over-distributed’, and focusing instead on artisans, small producers, family-run businesses and alternatives for a better way of consuming…
Working directly with family-run businesses who themselves work directly with producers (and/or produce their own products) is also the best way of ensuring comfortable margins that help to safeguard jobs.
Fabrikathé, artisan blender and producer of teas and infusions
Since 2016, our small family business has been creating and assembling its 100% natural gourmet teas and infusions by hand, in its workshop in the Loire region.
We’re proud to be one of the few artisan tea blenders in France & to work exclusively with independent retailers! To All our raw materials are sourced and purchased organically (for 98% of them) and with the shortest possible economic circuit (maximum 1 middleman, in certain import zones, to guarantee traceability, lab analyses, organic imports in good and due form…).
As well as promoting ‘handmade in France’, we wanted to make a greater commitment to the planet by launching our own plantation with a global agricultural project:
- The planting of tea bushes, the first to be planted in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with the aim of growing our own seeds to acclimatise to our own terroir and planting 10,000 plants (we obviously don’t pretend to be able to do without our tea producers in China, Japan and India, with their specific terroirs and ancestral know-how).
- The planting of organic aromatic and medicinal plants, spices and fruit trees to internalise 20% of our raw material requirements for in-house production.
- The drying, processing and cutting of these same aromatic plants for use in our blends.
- An organic vegetable garden that already provides vegetables for staff families!
- Beehives to pollinate the plants and produce our own honey.
- An ecotourism project due to be launched in 2023, with the aim of reacquainting people with the knowledge of aromatic and medicinal plants and helping to raise the profile of our rural area.
Support in setting up your own delicatessen or tea shop
’ We wanted to work with a local craftsman, so we naturally turned to FBKT. Keeping our independence was essential to us, and this partnership made it possible. Working with Julien and his team has been a real success in terms of responsiveness, product quality and the creation of new recipes such as the Vichy pastille herbal tea ‘.
Clothilde, Manager of the l’Art Teasane shop in Vichy
Tea/coffee shops, wine merchants, delicatessens, concept stores… 180 independent retail partners now trust us with their range of teas and infusions. They are not subject to any franchises or obligations regarding our brand. We guarantee them exclusivity in their trading area (provided, of course, that they are well represented in return!). And there’s no risk of finding our teas in your local supermarket: we don’t work with supermarkets!
We are not simply suppliers or wholesalers: we support our customers in creating their range, in launching their project… All our personalised set-ups are accompanied by compulsory and free training on our premises!
At FBKT, there are no field sales people or agents criss-crossing the country to come and sell you additional products every year.
We’ve opted for an organisation based around a tightly-knit customer/ADV/communications department capable of creating lasting, personalised links with you. C It’s by bringing you in for training, by opening the doors of our workshop and our plantation to you that we create a truly close relationship.
’ When I decided to open my shop just over a year ago, I was looking for a tea supplier, and after all my research, my choice fell on La Fabrikathé, and after 1 year of hindsight, I can certify that my choice was the right one. The tea is clearly the best I’ve ever tasted, my customers are delighted with it and there’s a huge variety to choose from. Thanks to this, I’ve been able to win the loyalty of many of my customers. My goods are always delivered very quickly. The sales department is efficient. And the sales staff are there to listen. Inother words, if you want to work with a company that offers refined products, I would recommend FBKT without hesitation.’
Tania, Manager of the PIERRE DE LUNE shop in Sarralbe.
You have a business project in mind? Are you opening a delicatessen? A tea shop?
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