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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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The Pearl Temple
The stupa is the heart of the temple. It is a hemispherical structure containing relics of the Buddha placed there by 2,500 years ago by the local chieftain, Indaka
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Badulla Tea Harvest Blessing
Accompanied by drummers and dancers, planters and tea pluckers in Sri Lanka’s Uva Province, paraded through the city streets of Badulla to the ancient Muthiyangana Raja Maha Vihara Temple courtyard, where a Buddhist monk blessed their first harvest tea.
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Receding La Niña to Boost Summer Temps
China is again experiencing record-breaking heat early in the crop cycle, impacting Yunnan and several other tea-growing provinces. The country has experienced several heat waves since March, with Yunnan in Southwestern China recording 40 Celsius highs. Northern provinces Jinan and Tianjin are seeing temperatures soar to 37C (about 98 degrees Fahrenheit).
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International Tea Day Makes a Big Splash
A Billion People Participate in Earth Day Activities | Earth Day Organizers Honor Just Ice Tea Founder Seth Goldman | Iran Snubs India Suppliers as Tea Exports Set Record | Long-Running Drought in Kenya Depresses Tea Yields | Vahdam Launches Spice Line
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Catchy TV Campaign Launches Lipton Hard Tea
This week, Lipton unveiled a trio of television and web commercials that state the obvious. The top-selling non-alcoholic tea brand recently launched a fresh-brewed line with 5% ABV (alcohol by volume). The new hard tea is blended with a triple-filtered malt base in four versions, replicating its best-selling flavored iced tea.
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A Taste of the Wild
The trees at Warnagala Tea Estate, established in 1890 by Scottish planters, today rise 40 to 50 feet into the rainforest canopy on the slopes of the sacred Sri Pada Mountain range. Pluckers climb into the trees to retrieve green leaves for tea making Forest Hill teas.
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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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Frugal Innovation
Objective data changes the conversation in the factory from vague concepts to thresholds and parameters. It makes operations scientific so that processes can improve, explains Shekib Ahmed of Koliabur Tea Estate.
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Frugal Innovation
Practical, economical solutions to some of the tea industry’s most vexing challenges.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 46
Tea News for the Week of Dec. 3 – Ekaterra Tea CEO John Davison Discusses Plans to Re-energize the World’s Largest Tea Company | India Steps Up Efforts to Halt Illegal Tea Imports from Nepal | Chinese Archaeologists Excavating 2,800 Year Old City in Shandong Discover Oldest Tea Yet
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Q|A John Davison
We need to get beyond watching and following. We need to get in the game and drive the rules of the game.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 45
Tea News for the Week of Dec. 3 – In the Black: Holiday Sales Surge | CVC Capital Pays $5.1 Billion for Unilever’s Tea Portfolio | Weather Stations: A Climate Change Adaptation Essential for Tea | PLUS Resilient & Resourceful Evy Chen and a fizzy, foamy canned tea from Brisbane.
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Resilient & Resourceful: Evy Chen
This is hands down the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Everything I’ve established in the past 10 years gone, products gone, clients gone, people gone. I practically had to rebuild a company with not much money during COVID.
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The Timeless Taste of Tea
East Forged teas are cold brewed from organic whole leaf green, black, and white teas. The tea is then enhanced with no-sugar-added juices from natural fruit. A burst of carbon dioxide makes it fizz and a dose of nitrogen gives the tea texture and a creamy head.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 44
Tea News for the Week of Nov. 19 – Drinking Tea Linked to Lower Risk and Severity of Stroke | India Initiates Tea Reforms | Glasgow Climate Pact Boosts Morale, but Will Momentum Build? | Australian Golden Leaf Awards Return
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India Initiates Tea Industry Reforms
India’s highest levels of government are reforming the basic structure of agriculture. The intent is to loosen regulations on pricing and storage and to permit direct sales of produce. These rules have protected India’s farmers from the free market for decades. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the reforms a “watershed moment” for Indian agriculture.
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Golden Leaf Awards — Deadline Near
The Golden Leaf Awards, sponsored by the Australian Tea Masters and suspended during the height of the pandemic, have returned in 2021. The deadline to enter the competition is November 30.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 43
Tea News for the Week of Nov. 12 – The Desirability of Sustainability | Ekaterra Tea Pledges to Become Net-Zero | Grocery Shoppers Say they Will Pay More for Sustainable Food | Inflation Demonstrates a Troubling Persistence | PLUS Tea Board of India Chairman Prabhat Bezboruah explains the current situation and the economic and societal…
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Q|A Prabhat Bezboruah
India’s government is going to revamp the Tea Act. It’s going to be a wholesale revamp. The role of the Tea Board is also going to be redefined. That’s a work in progress and it’s already happening. Even the Plantation Labor Act is going to get subsumed once the code on wages and the occupational…
