Is Britain’s love affair with tea over?

PG Tips and Lipton could be sold by Unilever because they are falling out of favour with the public

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Unilever is weighing-up whether to sell its multi-billion pound global tea business, as “changing consumer preferences” have seen more people switch from black tea to herbal or coffee.

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