Listen to this articleA New Jersey-born specialty tea company is relocating its operations to a larger space in Bergen County as it looks to grow its eponymous business while expanding further into coffee, spices and honey.
Following its recent move into an 80,000-square-foot warehouse in East Rutherford, Adagio Teas expects to hire an unspecified number of additional employees to support growth goals.
According to the family-owned and operated business, those staffers will run new coffee roasting and packaging lines. The equipment includes 20-ton silos and a 60-kilogram roaster.
Adagio Teas is also bringing in new packaging machinery to support growth of spice and honey products. Additionally, the company is purchasing equipment to extract and concentrate tea and coffee for its single-serve concentrates line.
Room to grow
Sofya Kreymerman and her sons, Michael Cramer and Ilya Kreymerman, founded Adagio Teas 26 years ago in a Fair Lawn basement. The direct-to-consumer e-commerce business sells a wide variety of loose-leaf teas, flavored blends, herbal infusions, teaware and related accessories.
It also offers options for custom blends, subscriptions and samplers.
Prior to East Rutherford, the company has operated out of several facilities over the years, including sites in Clifton and Garfield. Financing from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s Small Business Fund helped support Adagio Teas’ 2016 move into its most-recent location in Elmwood Park.
We were busting at the seams in our old location.
— Michael Cramer, Adagio Teas
Through the program, the NJEDA partnered with M&T Bank to help support equipment upgrades and operational improvements, enabling Adagio to boost production, improve efficiency and grow its workforce from three to 50.
Commenting on the company’s new home along Murray Hill Parkway, Cramer said, “We were busting at the seams in our old location.”
“Our new warehouse is four times the size of the prior one, and avails space to undertake projects that had been stymied for years,” the CEO said.
