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Understand The Tea Industry
“Make better business decisions using our sophisticated market analysis.”
Dan Bolton, Editor and Producer, Tea Journey And Tea Biz
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Built on Beneficence
Romesh Walpola, CEO of Tea Smallholder Factories in Sri Lanka discusses how investing in smallholder training, wellness, and educational programs, including internships for second-generation farmers, earns the loyalty of thousands of small tea growers and top dollar for teas sold at auction.
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World Tea Academy Celebrates First Decade
The World Tea Academy is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The online resource offers comprehensive basic and advanced training for tea professionals and enthusiasts. Director Lisa Boalt Richardson joins us for a conversation about the resilience and relevance of the academy: “There’s always a market for good quality tea education,” she says.
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English Edition of El Té Gourmet Argentino Released
Author Horacio Bustos in July 2023 released an English-language version of of El Té Gourmet Argentino, an exhaustive analysis of the origin, customs, and practices of gourmet tea in Argentina.
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Iran and Sri Lanka Revive $250 Million Tea-for-Oil Barter
Iran and Sri Lanka Revive $250 Million Tea-for-Oil Barter | Decade Old Oil Debt to be Settled in $5 Million Monthly Installments of Tea | India Exporters Expect Iran to Resume Buying Tea Halted Since November | Israel Declares Wissotzky Tea a Monopoly | Rohit Jawa Takes Charge at Hindustan Unilever | PLUS Organizers of…
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India Reviews Raw Leaf Price-Sharing Formula
India Reviews Raw Leaf Price-Sharing Formula | Consultants BDO India has six months to complete an extensive report on cultivation and processing costs | US Fast-food Outlets Have Yet to Rollout Boba Nationally | The European Speciality Tea Association Offers Tea Barista Foundation Certificates to Coffee Shop Staff | PLUS The school teaches that knowledge…
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Thirst-Quenching Cold Brew Teas
As Temperatures Rise, Tea is Ideally Suited to Quench the World’s Thirst | Consumers favor boldly flavored, non-sweetened blends | Kenya’s Costly Tea Crisis | The Tea Association of India Lists Industry Concerns | PLUS The Smallholder Factories in Sri Lanka invest in training, wellness, and educational programs, including internships for second-generation farmers, to earn…
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Future-Proof Your Tea Business
“Use the right information to make wise long-term tea trading decisions.”
Dan Bolton Editor and Producer, Tea Journey and Tea Biz
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First Tea Culture Week in Brazil
Tea Culture Week, scheduled for August 1-7, 2022, will feature online and in-person activities across the country. Retailers, marketers, tea educators, and volunteer enthusiasts have been planning the event for months.
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Reinvigorating India’s Tea Sector
India’s tea industry in 2021 recovered from severe setbacks due to the pandemic. Fortunately, India’s domestic demand remains firm, consuming 75% of locally grown tea.
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New Protocols to Evaluate Specialty Tea
International Specialty Tea Association spokesperson Andrew McNeill announced new evaluation standards that provide a framework for the evaluation of specialty tea. He says the new protocols “give some shape to the premium tea products that producers are making tea and, increasingly, what consumers are buying.”
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Small Scale Mechanization
The Great Mississippi Tea Company is pioneering modern cultivation, tea science, employment standards, and small-scale mechanization of the harvest for producers in developed countries where the high cost of labor and land has discouraged growers.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 49
Tea News for the Week of Dec. 31 | Omicron Cancels Restaurant Reservations | Sri Lanka Barters $5 Million a Month in Tea to Settle Iran Oil Debt | PLUS Foodservice Tea Still Recuperating, a TEAIN22 Forecast
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New Role for Tea Board
A bill to promote and further develop India’s industry will, “enable the functioning of a modern Tea Promotion and Development Board and for matters connected therewith.”
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Tea as Medicine
The Global Tea Initiative Colloquium was hosted by the University of California, Davis on Jan. 13, 2022 | This year’s topic is Tea and Beyond: Bridging Science and Culture, Time and Space. Tea Biz brings you a recap of the keynote address on “The Popularization of Food as Medicine and Its Impact on Tea” presented…
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Tea in Foodservice is Recuperating
Two years of COVID reset tea consumption at restaurants and cafés, initially reinforcing traditional expectations of comfort and warmth but evolving to permanently disrupt delivery, takeaway, menu choices, and celebratory occasions with tea.
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Mechanical Harvesting
Given the cost and shortage of labor and the growing demand for tea, mechanization is here to stay. Virtually all crops are being mechanically harvested now. There’s no other way that you can make commodity tea commercially viable, says Teacraft founder Nigel Melican.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 48
Tea News for the Week of Dec. 17 – Bulk and Specialty Tea Prices Diverge | France Will Pay €1 Million to GI Certify Ceylon Tea | Sotheby’s Inaugural Tea & Teaware Auctions Total HKD8 Million | PLUS Born of Native Mud and Frugal Innovation, Part 2
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 47
Tea News for the Week of Dec. 10 – Economic Forecasters Predict Higher Tea Prices in 2022 | As Holiday Order Ease, a Delivery Crisis Looms | German Tea Drinkers Set a Consumption Record | PLUS Frugal Innovation, Part 1
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Q|A Mary Cotterman
Artisan Teaware Born from Native Mud
