The group traded in the high street under various names, but was registered on the UK stock market as Allied Suppliers.

Shortly after opening his shop Thomas Lipton began travelling the world for new items to stock.

[8] This was followed in 2003 by a second joint venture, Pepsi Lipton International (PLI), covering many non-North American markets.

[18] In 2011, PETA criticized Unilever for conducting and funding experiments on rabbits, pigs and other animals in an attempt to make human health claims about the tea's ingredients.

[20] Unilever reached an agreement in November 2021 to sell the majority of its tea business to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for €4.5 billion.

Lipton tea blends are selected from many different plantations around the world, from well-known producing countries, including Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, and China.

It differs from other iced tea brands in that phosphoric acid is added to the blend, giving the beverage a distinctive sharp flavour.

Pure Leaf is an iced tea brand distributed primarily in the Americas by the PepsiCo-Lipton joint venture.

[33] Hundreds of new commercially produced varieties of dips were later introduced in the U.S.[33] In 1914, Lipton's tea was one of the sponsors for the first flight from Melbourne to Sydney by French aviator Maurice Guillaux, at the time the longest air mail and air freight flight in the world.

[34] In an attempt to change the negative perception of iced tea in the United Kingdom – as 60% claimed they did not like the taste before even trying it – the Unilever PepsiCo joint venture carried out a London-based marketing campaign in 2010 under the slogan "Don't knock it 'til you’ve tried it!

[40][41] In November 2011, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China found high levels of pesticides such as bifenthrin in one variety of Lipton tea.

[42] In April 2012, Greenpeace raised further questions about Lipton products in China, after two varieties of Lipton tea the group purchased in Beijing supermarkets failed safety tests, with the results allegedly failing to meet the regulations enforced in the European Union.

[43] The group also stated, "Some of the detected pesticides are also banned for use in tea production by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.

From Lipton's Seat the Uva, Sabaragamuywa and Central province spread out from before one's feet in a display rivalling that of another famed Sri Lankan observation point, World's End, Sri Lanka[44] within the Horton Plains National Park in the Nuwara Eliya District.