[2] As of 2014[update], over 3 million Bell Tea bags were made each day in Auckland.

[1] Due to competition with Progressive Enterprises, Foodstuffs' main competitor, Bell Tea had difficulty getting into Progressive's supermarkets, which limited the growth of Bell Tea.

[3] Bell Tea was sold in September 2013 to Wellington-based Pencarrow Private Equity.

[2] During that year the company also divested three of its properties in East Tāmaki, two of which were adjoined as a factory.

[7][8][9] BrewGroup was bought in 2017 by Dutch company Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) for over $100 million.