Lipton Ice Tea — Wholesale Supply

Lipton Ice Tea carries the widest pack spread of any ready-to-drink tea in the chilled fixture, which is exactly why it is rarely bought as a single line. FMCG Depot supplies it wholesale from Belgium alongside the rest of our beverages for retail and export, so the question in front of a buyer is not whether to list it but which formats belong in which channel — and how many of each go into the container.

Formats that match every channel

Treat the format ladder as a channel decision rather than a flavour one. The 330ml can is an impulse and vending unit: it merchandises in a chiller door, it works in multipack promotions, and it is the pack forecourt and vending operators ask for first. The 500ml PET is the convenience and forecourt workhorse — resealable, single-serve, bought on the move. The 1.5L PET is a take-home grocery pack that sells on price per litre and earns its space in the ambient aisle as much as the chiller. Glass, where the market version supports it, is an on-trade format for HoReCa buyers who need a presentable bottle on the table.

If your business is cash-and-carry and convenience led, cans and 500ml PET carry the volume and the large PET is a secondary line; if you supply supermarkets, the 1.5L PET dominates and the can becomes a promotional add-on. Buyers running Lipton Ice Tea inside a PepsiCo-fed assortment usually want a lemon-lime line moving on the same paperwork, and the 7UP export listing covers the formats that most often travel with it.

Built for export volume

Every case is genuine, EU-sourced product in original manufacturer packaging, dispatched by the case, pallet or full container load through the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. Export documentation travels with the goods — EUR.1 movement certificates, Certificates of Origin, commercial invoice and packing list — and we quote EXW, FOB, CIF or DAP so the offer matches the way you already buy. Importers balancing a tea facing against carbonates often source Sprite in bulk on the same booking, which keeps one set of documents and one freight cost across both lines.

• Guaranteed authentic Lipton Ice Tea in original branded packaging
• Single-variant or mixed-variant pallets to balance an assortment
• Case, pallet and full container load quantities on request
• EUR.1, Certificate of Origin, commercial invoice and packing list
• EXW, FOB, CIF and DAP Incoterms via Antwerp and Rotterdam

Who distributes Lipton Ice Tea, and why the route changes the pack

Buyers regularly ask whether Lipton Ice Tea comes from Unilever or from PepsiCo. The answer is commercial rather than academic: the ready-to-drink business reaches most markets through the Pekoe and PepsiCo bottling arrangement rather than through one single owner, and it is produced under bottling arrangements in different territories. That is precisely why market versions vary — pack sizes, flavour names, label languages and deposit-return markings are not identical from one producing market to the next.

Specify the destination and the label language you need at enquiry stage. We confirm in writing, on the pro-forma, which market version is being offered against the allocation available at that moment. If your broker or your retail customer requires a particular ingredient declaration or language set, say so before booking and we will tell you whether it can be met from current stock.

Flavour architecture and mixed-variant pallets

Lemon, Peach and Green Tea form the volume core in almost every market, with mango and market-specific extensions appearing where local taste supports them, alongside no-added-sugar and lighter-sugar lines. Because the fixture sells on variety, most orders are built as single-variant layers combined into a mixed pallet rather than one flavour per pallet. Layer composition and the number of pallets are confirmed in writing on the pro-forma against the allocation offered.

Sugar level is now a sourcing decision as well as a taste one. Since 1 January 2026 the UAE and Saudi Arabia have assessed beverage excise on a tiered volumetric basis linked to sugar content per 100ml rather than as a flat rate on value, so the split between standard and reduced-sugar variants moves an importer's landed cost in those markets. Tell us the variant split you want quoted and we will price exactly that.

Best-before dates, rotation and remaining shelf life

Ready-to-drink tea is not a carbonate, and buyers who apply carbonate assumptions to it get caught. We do not publish a headline shelf-life figure, because the only figure that matters is the one on the batch you are offered. Best-before dating and batch numbers are confirmed against the specific allocation before payment and appear on the pro-forma and packing list. If your retail listing agreement carries a minimum remaining-life threshold, state it in the enquiry: it is far cheaper to decline an allocation at quotation stage than to argue about rotation once the container has sailed. On recurring supply we plan call-offs so stock rotates in the order it was produced.

Pair it across the range

Lipton anchors the mainstream tier of an iced-tea set, which leaves room on either side of it. The Arizona Iced Tea export listing covers the cult, high-visibility end that pulls a younger shopper into the chiller, and buyers commonly run the two together so a single fixture spans everyday and impulse price points without the two lines cannibalising each other, adding Fuze Tea where a third tier is needed.

What else travels with a tea pallet

Tea rarely fills a container on its own. Ambient dry goods are the usual counterweight, and buyers combining a beverage pallet block with snacks often add the Doritos export listing to the same booking so one container serves the chiller and the crisps aisle. Mixed-brand loads are planned so the container reaches its permitted weight and its usable cube together, and our logistics team agrees the stacking plan with you before the pro-forma is issued.

Planning the category before you order

If you are still deciding how much shelf to give the category, our overview of the assortment case for Lipton Ice Tea places it against the other fast-moving beverage brands we export.

Opening an account and placing the order

Trade accounts are opened before the first quotation, so terms, pricing and documentation are set up once rather than rebuilt every order — get your account activated, then send the destination, target volume and format split you want costed. Quantities run from case level to full container load, with part-loads while a listing is still being proved.