Ketepa
{{Infobox company
| name = KETEPA
| logo =
| type = Processing
| industry = Tea industry
| fate =
| founded = 1978
| founder = KTDA{{cite web |title=KTDA - Global Leader in Quality Teas |url=https://ktdateas.com/ |accessdate=27 May 2020}}
| hq_location_city = Kericho, Kericho County
| hq_location_country = Kenya
| area_served = Global
| key_people = Tea consumers
| products = Tea brands
| owner = smallholder tea farmers of Kenya
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| website = https://ketepa.com/
}}
Ketepa is a brand of tea in Kenya which is a subsidiary of Kenya Tea Development Agency Limited (KTDA) which is the largest small-scale farmer umbrella body in the World with over 650,000 farmers.
The name derives from Kenya Tea Packers.{{cite web | url=http://www.ketepa.com/ | title=Ketepa | accessdate=2011-09-16}} Ketepa is the largest tea company in Kenya, it has been making tea since 1978, but officially registered in 1997,{{Cite web |title=Company History |url=https://ketepa.com/company-history/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Kenya Tea Packers Limited |language=en-US}} and has its headquarters in Kericho but the law allowing Ketepa to export was only passed in 1992.{{cite web|url=http://www.ketepa.com/the-company.html |work=Ketepa |title=The Company |accessdate=2011-09-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018051017/http://www.ketepa.com/the-company.html |archivedate=2011-10-18 }}
One advertising campaign seeks to turn "tea time" into "Ketepa time."{{cite web|title=Corporate campaign for the largest tea company in Kenya. |url=http://www.neilsimpson.net/Images/Ketepa/ketepa.html |accessdate=2011-09-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402124825/http://www.neilsimpson.net/Images/Ketepa/ketepa.html |archivedate=2012-04-02 }}
Ketepa won the Superbrands East Africa award in 2007.
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Category:Tea companies of Kenya
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