Bags of success for Lily’s Tea Shop couple
Family-run tea firm based in Louth supplies 130 outlets and a further 30 hotels, restaurants and cafes
Five years after Chinese-born Lily Chen set up her speciality tea business in Termonfeckin in Co Louth, the venture became a family affair when her husband Dom McGroddy joined the business full-time in 2014.
The move marked a new departure for the couple, who had met while working in management roles for a construction supplies business.
When the construction market collapsed in 2008, Chen, who hails from the southern Chinese province of Fujian, ...
