British multinational consumer goods company Unilever has opened a facility in Dubai for ekaterra, the new tea company created by the firm as a standalone organization.
The Dubai facility will house a corporate head office for ekaterra's Africa, Middle East, and Turkey operations, as well as a manufacturing complex for the Lipton Jebel Ali factory.
The LJA factory is touted to be Unilever's first carbon-neutral site, and ekaterra will work to reduce the facility's contribution to CO2 emissions in the region by shifting to the use of solar energy in the future.
“As a single category business, we are committed to exploring new and better opportunities and fiercely executing them in our desire to make Lipton the preferred cup of tea in the region and more so in Arabia,” said Abhiroop Chuckarbutty, ekaterra President.
