The results also revealed £24.1m worth of “exceptional costs”, some of which relates to the break-in at the Moreton plant, which was shut down last year.
Typhoo said: “During August, a group of organised trespassers broke into the Moreton site and occupied it for several days.”
It added that the trespassers caused “extensive damage” and made the site “inaccessible”.
It said a lot of tea was rendered unusable and it was unable to fulfil some orders to customers.
Not reflected in the results were the impact of a fire in October at the same Moreton plant.
Local fire services told local publication Wirral Globe that the fire broke out on 1 October, with firefighters working throughout the night to put the blaze out.
Typhoo Tea was founded in 1903 and is widely seen as one of the UK’s main tea brands, alongside the likes of PG Tips, Tetley’s and Yorkshire Tea.
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