<Tr> <Th> Previous owners </Th> <Td> Brooke Bond </Td> </Tr> <P> PG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Unilever UK . </P> <P> In the 1930s, Brooke Bond launched PG Tips in the tea market in the United Kingdom under the name Pre-Gestee - a variant of the original name' Digestive Tea' . The name implied that it could be drunk prior to eating food, as a digestive aid . Grocers and salesmen abbreviated it to PG . </P> <P> After the Second World War, labelling regulations ruled out describing tea as aiding digestion--a property that had been attributed to tea--and by 1950 / 1 the PG name was adopted . The company added "Tips" referring to the fact that only the tips (the top two leaves and bud) of the tea plants are used in the blend . </P>

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