Clipper is a British Fairtrade tea company based in Beaminster, Dorset,[1] founded in 1984.

Already being in the tea industry, they cited increased amounts of child labour in the trade as their original motive to found Clipper.

[7] In 2008, Perry Haydn Taylor's creative branding agency was approached to rebrand the business.

[8] In 2012, the business was sold Royal Wessanen which is now a multinational named Ecotone, headquartered in France and owned by private equity.

[7] In 1994, Clipper was one of the first three companies in the UK to receive the Fairtrade mark and then decided to produce a magazine, called The Teapot Times, about the history of tea production and the positive impact buying Fairtrade goods had on communities around the world.