Who makes Kirkland Signature Ito En Matcha Blend Japanese Green Tea?
As of July 6, 2026, the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Ito En Matcha Blend Japanese Green Tea is Ito En, per on-label, first-party, or executive statement evidence.
The common claim
What most answers say — and what the evidence supports
Top-ranking answers name Ito En as the maker of Kirkland Signature green tea, and here the popular answer is correct because the product is an explicit co-brand: it is sold as 'Kirkland Ito En Matcha Blend Japanese Green Tea,' the Ito En brand is printed on the front of the box, and each bag blends Ito En's sencha leaves with matcha powder. Ito En, Japan's leading green-tea company, is the manufacturer.
Evidence & sources
Every source is graded on the six-tier rubric and archived, so the citation holds even if the original moves or paywalls. The tier badge grades the source; the status grades our confidence in the maker.
Tier 4
Retail listing for the co-branded product, sold as "Kirkland Ito En Matcha Blend Japanese Green Tea" - the Ito En co-brand is part of the product's own on-pack name, the same on-label co-brand pattern that resolves Kirkland's Ocean Spray cranberry juice. Archived snapshot title reads verbatim "Kirkland Ito En Matcha Blend Japanese Green Tea-200 ct 1.5g tea bags"; the page carries the Ito En name (19 mentions) and the sencha/matcha blend description throughout.
Tier 6
"...a collaboration with the popular Japanese tea brand Ito En. The bags contain a mix of sencha and matcha teas." Tier-6 food-media corroboration of the tier-4 on-pack Ito En co-brand; describes Ito En as Japan's number-one producer of canned and bottled green teas. Mashed (2026-04-12) independently reports the Ito En brand is printed "at the top corner of the front of the packaging."
Frequently asked
Who makes Kirkland Signature green tea for Costco?
Is Kirkland green tea Japanese?
Is Kirkland green tea the same as Ito En?
Get notified when a Kirkland manufacturer changes
Suppliers switch quietly and most sites never notice. We track the changes and log the day a maker moves — the same tracking that powers the change log.
Change-log newsletter · no spam · unsubscribe anytime.