Chatime facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Chatime

Native name	日出茶太
Industry	Beverages
Genre	Bubble tea
Founded	2005; 20 years ago (2005) in Zhubei, Hsinchu County, Taiwan; opened 2006
Headquarters	Zhubei, Hsinchu County , Taiwan
Number of locations	Over 2500
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Henry Wang (Chairperson, Founder) Henry Wang (Vice-president, Co-Founder)
Products	Bubble tea  • Tea  • Flavored tea
Services	Tea
Revenue	US$20 million (2011)

Chatime (Chinese: 日出茶太; pinyin: Rìchūchátài; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ji̍t-chhut Tê-thài) is a super popular Taiwanese company. It sells delicious bubble tea and other drinks. Chatime is the biggest bubble tea company in the world!

It started in Taiwan and now has over 2,500 stores. You can find Chatime in 38 different countries. This means you might find a Chatime store almost anywhere you travel!

Chatime grew by letting other people open stores using their brand name. This is called a franchise. The company that owns Chatime is called La Kaffa International Co Ltd. It's a "publicly listed" company, which means anyone can buy parts of the company (called shares).

History

Chatime tea.

Chatime was started in 2005 by a person named Henry Wang. He opened the first store in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The company that owns Chatime is called La Kaffa Coffee.

Growing Around the World

Chatime opened its first store outside of Taiwan in 2006. This store was in California, United States.

Then, in 2009, they opened stores in Australia. Now, there are over 70 Chatime stores in Australia! In 2010, they expanded to Malaysia. The stores in Malaysia bring in almost half of all the money Chatime makes worldwide.

A Chatime store in the Philippines

Chatime keeps opening new stores everywhere. In 2012, they opened a store in the famous Mall of America in the United States. You can also find a Chatime store in London, England.

In the Philippines, Chatime planned to have 50 stores by 2014. In Malaysia, they opened their 100th store in 2013. They even planned to have 250 stores there!

As of 2024, Chatime has many locations in Canada. You can find them in cities like Vancouver, Halifax, NS, Richmond Hill, and Toronto, ON. They also have stores in Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh.

A Chatime store in Æon, Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang, Malaysia

Chatime's parent company, La Kaffa International Co. Ltd., became a publicly listed company in Taiwan in 2012. This means it's the only bubble tea company in Taiwan that people can invest in.

Products

Chatime is most famous for its "pearl" milk tea. "Pearls" are those chewy, round tapioca balls you find in bubble tea.

They have many different kinds of drinks, like:

• Milk tea
• Fresh tea
• Fruit tea
• "Oriental pop tea"
• "QQ" jelly (a mix of pearls and coconut jelly)
• Mousse drinks
• Juices
• Smoothies
• Coffee

You can also ask for less sugar in your Chatime drinks. Some drinks are only available in certain countries. For example, in Malaysia, Chatime made special flavors with Horlicks.

Locations

As of 2018, Chatime has stores in 62 different countries and places around the world.

America

Europe

Middle East

Africa

Oceania

Asia

Collaborations

Chatime was the first bubble tea brand to be made available on AirAsia flights.

Chatime was the first drink company in Malaysia to have an official account on WeChat.

Chatime has worked with other companies to create cool new things.

In 2012, the airline AirAsia started offering Chatime drinks on its flights. This was a big deal because it was the first time bubble tea was sold on an airplane! They offered special flavors like Roasted Milk Tea with Red Bean.

Chatime also teamed up with WeChat, a popular messaging app. They were the first drink company in Malaysia to have an official account on WeChat. To celebrate, Chatime gave away one million cups of drinks through digital coupons on the app!

Other companies Chatime has worked with include McDonald's, BT21, Horlicks, and Julie's biscuits.

Brand Ambassadors

A Chatime store in a shopping mall

Another Chatime store.

Chatime chooses famous people to help promote their brand. These people are called "brand ambassadors."

In 2012, the famous Taiwanese actress Ariel Lin became a Chatime brand ambassador.

The next year, a young actress named Crystal Lee became Chatime's first "Chatime Friend." She was very young when she won a big acting award, and then she teamed up with Chatime!

See also

• Bubble tea
• Tea house
• Tea culture
• List of companies of Taiwan