Build

Launching soon

Trade site, online shop and digital support

Since April 2024 we have built, protected and run the digital side of a family-run tea company: three websites, email, security, marketing and the plans behind them.

The Hope & Glory trade website shown on a laptop, with the headline The tea people want to come back for.

The situation

Hope & Glory Tea sells organic tea to hotels, caterers and restaurants, and to people at home. In spring 2024 the founders and the board wanted one adviser to take stock of the company's systems and make them work together.

The website, email, mailing lists and accounts had grown up separately. Nobody had the time to join them up.

What we did

This is the one client where all three parts of our work run side by side, under a service agreement that has been reviewed every quarter since May 2024.

Build. We built a separate trade site so hotels, caterers and other buyers can see the range, the product specifications and the certifications in one place. We wrote the plan for H&G (Happiness & Goodness), a second brand selling tea by subscription, built its shop and helped launch it at a festival in 2026. We are now rebuilding the main online shop around five tea collections, with gifting, Christmas and corporate sections. Throughout, we have kept the existing site current: new products, seasonal pages, banners and fixes.

Protect. We took over the domain from the previous agency and reviewed IT security across the company. Every member of the team now signs in with two-factor authentication. We checked the opt-ins on the consumer mailing list before any mailer went out, and set up a shared drive as a data room for the company's accreditation adviser.

Enable. We moved the team to new email accounts on one address, with shared mailboxes for orders and the newsletter, and tested each one with its owner. We set up product listings on Google and tidied the business profile. We build and send the trade and consumer mailers every week from the designer's artwork. We set up the Amazon seller account and the Instagram shop, reviewed how proofs of delivery and invoices are produced, and audited the company's subscriptions and costs.

Planning. We report to the team each quarter on search, the shop, mailers and social. We researched the tea sector and its competitors in 2025, and in 2026 we wrote the commercial plan, the objectives poster and the action list for the second half of the year.

The outcome

The trade site is live and the new shop follows. The company has one plan to work from, and the service agreement has been renewed every quarter since May 2024.

Year

2024 to 2026

Made for

Hope & Glory Tea

Our role

Build, Protect and Enable: websites, security, email, marketing and planning

What was delivered

  • Trade website, live at trade.hopeandglorytea.com

  • H&G (Happiness & Goodness) subscription shop, live at handgtea.com

  • New online shop (launching soon)

  • Ongoing updates to the existing shop: products, seasonal pages and fixes

  • IT security review and two-factor authentication for the whole team

  • Mailing list opt-in check and a shared data room

  • New email accounts and shared mailboxes for the whole team

  • Weekly trade and consumer mailers

  • Google product listings and business profile

  • Amazon seller account, Instagram shop and a strategy for both

  • Subscriptions and costs audit

  • Quarterly reports, a tea sector analysis and the commercial plan for the second half of 2026

Absolutely brilliant thank you so much Sam, So helpful!

Lisa Knight

National Business Development

Home page of the H&G (Happiness & Goodness) tea subscription shop, with the headline Your daily wellness, brewed.
Home page of the Hope & Glory trade website.
The Hope & Glory trade website shown on a phone.

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Registered details

Company no. 13528799

VAT GB 425558385

ICO registration ZB385789

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The photography, film and artwork on this site were made by people, not generated by AI. Some photos and film may have been edited with help from AI tools.

© 2026 Hankin Digital

Hankin Digital

A digital studio in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire

Registered details

Company no. 13528799

VAT GB 425558385

ICO registration ZB385789

Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E), IAPP
Google for Education Certified Trainer

The photography, film and artwork on this site were made by people, not generated by AI. Some photos and film may have been edited with help from AI tools.

© 2026 Hankin Digital

Hankin Digital

A digital studio in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire