Ganesh Premium Tea has been making one strong Assam CTC in Mumbai since 1986. The recipe has not changed, and neither has the family making it.
Ganesh Tea is a strong Assam CTC chai patti made by Ganesh Premium Tea Private Limited in Mumbai, Maharashtra. CTC stands for Crush, Tear, Curl. The leaf is broken into small granules rather than left whole, which is what lets it brew fast and hold its colour and strength against milk, sugar and a hard boil.
It is not a delicate tea and it is not trying to be. It is the cup that gets made at six in the morning in a Mumbai kitchen, in a steel pot, with full-fat milk, and it has to taste like something at the end of that. Everything about the blend is chosen for that job.
The leaf is sourced from Assam, in India's north-east: flat river-valley plantations along the Brahmaputra, not the terraced hillsides people usually picture. Assam produces the maltiest, briskest black tea in the world, and it is the only origin that gives a milk chai the body it needs.
Nothing else goes in. The pack is 100% Assam CTC, with no dust grade padding it out and no cheaper origin blended underneath to bring the cost down. That is a more expensive way to fill a packet, and it is the reason a spoonful gives colour in the time it takes to boil the milk.
Because it does not need to, and because customers would notice. Shopkeepers reorder Ganesh without being asked. Caterers are told not to substitute it. Households buy the same pack for twenty years and complain immediately if anything tastes different. That is a constraint most brands would find limiting; here it is the entire proposition.
It is also why the range is one blend in five sizes rather than a shelf of variants. A 100g packet, a ₹10 sachet and a 1kg catering bag are the same tea; the only decision left to the buyer is how much of it to keep in the house.
India has excellent large tea companies. Wagh Bakri has been going since 1892 and sells across eighteen states; Society Tea has been a Maharashtra institution since 1924; Red Label and Tata Tea are on every shelf in the country. They are national operations with national supply chains, and each of them sells more tea in a week than Ganesh does in a year.
What Ganesh has instead is a single job. One blend, made for the strong milk chai of a Mumbai morning, by a family that has answered for it since 1986 and cannot quietly reformulate it without hearing about it from a kirana owner in Ghatkopar. If you want a subtle cup to drink black, buy an orthodox leaf from a Darjeeling or Assam estate; this is not that tea, and the difference is deliberate.
Around 4.5 lakh cups a day, most of them in and around Mumbai. Households buying a 250g pack every few weeks, kirana shops that have stocked it for decades, tapris pouring it by the tray, and the caterers, offices and hotels who take it in 1kg bags. It is an everyday tea at an everyday price, which is the point.
Ganesh Tea is the brand of Ganesh Premium Tea Private Limited, registered in Mumbai and operating from 103, Neelyog Square, Opposite Railway Station, Ghatkopar East, Mumbai 400077, Maharashtra. The tea is FSSAI certified and packed in Mumbai. Trade and order enquiries reach the family directly on WhatsApp at +91 93200 28110, or through the contact page.
Online, in packs from 100g to 1kg, delivered anywhere in India: see the range. In person, across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane in DMart and Reliance Retail stores and thousands of kirana shops: where to find us.
We supply caterers, offices, hotels and distributors across Maharashtra. For trade pricing, message us on WhatsApp. That reaches the family directly, not a call centre.
Ganesh Tea is made by Ganesh Premium Tea Private Limited, a family-owned company registered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The same family has run it since 1986, and the business still blends and packs its tea in Mumbai rather than contracting the work out to a third party.
Ganesh Tea has been sold in Mumbai since 1986, which makes it 40 years old in 2026. It has been owned by the same family for that entire period, and the blend sold today is the one the business started with.
The leaf is 100% Assam CTC, bought from the river-valley gardens of the Brahmaputra basin in north-east India. Assam is the origin that gives black tea its malty body and brisk strength, which is what lets a cup hold its own against milk and sugar.
Yes. Ganesh Tea is stocked in DMart and Reliance Retail stores across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and the Thane belt, along with thousands of neighbourhood kirana shops. Stock and pack sizes vary by branch, so ordering online is often quicker than waiting for a refill.
Kadak means a cup that stays strong through milk, sugar and a hard boil. Ganesh Tea is built for it: 100% Assam CTC with no filler, so the granules release colour and strength in two to three minutes instead of thinning out.
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