If you are a marketing professional, like PG Tips advertisements or enjoy the history of advertising, this is a great video. This video was made by IPA, a UK advertising trade group. The video is a bit long at 22 minutes but it is interesting. It traces the history of PG Tips advertising from the 1950s to today.

Focus on: PG Tips from The IPA on Vimeo.

The makers of PG Tips have created a cool timeline.  You can learn about important dates in the brand’s history.

Visit the PG Tips Timeline.

From a bygone era.  Here is an early vehicle when the tea was known as Brooke Bond PG Tips.

Here is a PG Tips print ad from 1962.  It is great to see the images of the times.  Notice how much the packaging has changed.

PG Tips Ad

A great, unknown Facebook page is the Unilever Archives (maker of PG Tips).  It has great images of various Unilever products from the past.

So, you drink a lot of PG?  You say you are a big fan.  Well, how is the product officially spelled? PG Tips or PG tips? See below the pic for the right answer.

PG Tips Loose Tea in an 8.8 Ounce Box

Officially, it is PG tips.  For proof, visit the company page here and look at the spelling.

Feel free to use this trivia question at parties, it is sure to be a stumper.  What does Peter Sellers have to do with the PG Tips chimps?

As you know, the PG Tips chimps commercials are world-famous and in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running advertising campaign.

Peter Sellers was the narrator of the first PG Tips chimp commercial, dubbed “Stately Home,” which aired in 1956.

If you are a fan of PG Tips, you may have heard of Mr. Shifter? But who is Mr. Shifter?

PG Tips has the record for the longest-running single advertising campaign the UK. The ads featured the famous chimps, called the Tipps Family. Mr. Shifter was one of the chimps in the campaign.

In this image from the PG Tips corporate web site, you can see monkey wearing a t-shirt honoring Mr. Shifter.  (You can go directly to the page of the PG Tips company site with this image by clicking below).

PG Tips monkey honoring Mr. Shifter.

This old PG Tips ad mentions Mr. Shifter by name. Listen carefully.

Authentic PG Tips is still made in Manchester, England.  A picture of the plant is below.

PG Tips plant in Manchester, England.

Make sure you get authentic PG Tips Tea.

From our friends at teadog.com.

Is the name PG Tips Tea or Brooke Bond PG Tips?

Many long time drinkers refer to it as Brooke Bond PG Tips.  But, is that the right name?

Brooke Bond was the company that produced PG Tips back in in the 1930s in England.   Brooke Bond was the name of the tea shop opened byArthur Brooke, who created PG Tips, one of the first brands of tea in the UK.   But, PG Tips has been owned by Unilever UK since 1984.  Below is a picture of the store and of Arthur Brooke.

Arthur Brooke , the founder of PG Tips, and the first Brooke Bond store.