Insightful content for tea professionals to thrive in the tea industry. Sign up now.
- Research
- News
- Thought Leadership
- Market Insights
Don’t Miss The Next Tea Biz Blog Post.
Understand The Tea Industry
“Make better business decisions using our sophisticated market analysis.”
Dan Bolton, Editor and Producer, Tea Journey And Tea Biz
-
How Technology Helps Build a Successful Teashop – Whether Starting Out or 5 Years In
Running a teahouse involves support systems that weren’t there even 10 years ago. Today, systems are better integrated to talk to each other or export reports to use in spreadsheets for analysis. Inventory in the point of sale (POS) system integrating with your online website is super helpful. There were several presentations at the World…
-
Unpacking the Future of Tea
Saeed Al Suwaidi, Director of Agri Commodities at DMCC and a respected executive and technologist, shares his perspective on some of the issues to be addressed during the DMCC Global Tea Forum April 25-27.
-
World Tea Expo Announces Tea Tycoon Competitors and “Best of Award” Finalists
Tea Tycoon Competitors Announced | Teaware Manufacturers Adopt Consumer to Manufacturer (C2M) Business Model Pioneered by Fast-Fashion | Study Suggests an EGCG-based Therapy for Treating Alzheimer’s | PLUS Entrepreneurs Three-Minute Meditation with Tea | Episode 107 |
-
Pakistan’s Economic Crisis Threatens Mombasa-based Tea Trade
Pakistan offers to barter rice to resolve tea import impasse that has stranded 300 containers at Karachi Port | Asahi Launches SOU, its First New Tea Brand in Decades | Tatcha Unveils Virtual Forest Bathing and Meditation Experience | PLUS Tea Processing Reimagined: Extruded Tea | Episode 106 |
-
Logistics Companies Invest to Right the Ship
Logistics Companies Invest to Right the Ship | Newly Elected KTDA Board Ousts Executives | Hain Celestial Streamlines Tea Selections | PLUS Alicia Gentili on the challenges of establishing a new tea garden in the English Channel and Dorje Tea targets India’s domestic market in an attempt to revive Darjeeling’s Selim Hill | Episode 25…
-
Tonnes of Tea Stranded in Karachi
Pakistan Offers to Barter Rice to Resolve Tea Import Impasse Containers of tea from Africa have been piling up at the port of Karachi since December, with more on the way. Ships are unloading briskly for the first time in months, but the government needs $1 billion immediately and $8.5 billion to pay its fuel…
Don’t Miss The Next Tea Biz Blog Post. Sign Up Now.
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
-
Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 38
Tea News for the Week of Oct. 8 | India Adopts Tea Industry Reforms | US Considers Granting Exemptions from Chinese Tariffs | A Tribute to Nepal Tea Maker Morris Orchard | Swiss inspired High Mountain Tea Houses in the Canadian Rockies.
-
Jolene’s Tea House
In the Canadian Rockies tea houses are unique to Canadian culture. The tea houses were built by Swiss guides to be a refuge for hikers and explorers travelling and enjoying the majestic countryside. They are a part of history in Banff.
-
Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 37
Tea News for the Week of Oct. 1 | Kenya Exports Saturate Black Tea Market | COVID Depresses Japanese Tea Business in Unique Ways | Unilever is Recognized by the World Benchmarking Alliance as the Top Food and Agriculture Benchmark | PLUS Mohit Agarwal, Managing Director at the Asia Tea Group, explains the advantages of…
-
Organic Tea Production at Scale
With 6,325 acres under tea, Mozambique’s Cha de Magoma is the world’s largest bio-organic tea garden and its Monte Metilile brand is a success story that demonstrates the many advantages of scale in producing great-tasting, high-quality, clean teas.
-
Q|A John Snell
Unlike much of Africa’s tea growing regions, Mozambique has true seasonality with an off season that enables tea bushes to produce the right concentration of phenolics essential in making great specialty tea.
-
Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 36
Tea News for the Week of Sept. 24 | Retail Sales Forecast Happy Holidays | Restaurant Reticence is Declining | A Restructured DAVIDsTEA Expands into Pharmacies | PLUS Folklore Tea co-founders in Guwahati, Assam discuss how they engage customers at an unusual level of intimacy
-
Folklore Tea
The founders of Folklore Tea in Assam work with villagers to increase their awareness about tea as they introduce customers to those who made the tea, how the leaf was processed, the cultural ethos, and terroir.
-
Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 35
Tea News for the Week of Sept. 17 | Bids Top $4 Billion for Unilever Tea Portfolio | India May Halt Imports of Nepal Tea | Sales of Herbal Supplements in US Exceed $10 Billion | PLUS The Physics of Black Tea Film | and the Rainforest Alliance’s Madhuri Nanda on the evolution of sustainable…
-
The Physics of Black Tea Film
Researchers once thought tea film was due to waxy substances in leaves released during steeping. That is not the case. The delicate film is an interfacial interaction of air, tea polyphenols, and calcium carbonate ions in water.
-
Q|A Madhuri Nanda
Sustainable farming practices ensure no negative impact. The focus in regenerative agriculture is making the system better by adopting an ecosystem approach to enhance biodiversity and improve soil health.
-
Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 34
Sri Lanka Tea Yields Feared to Decline | McLeod Russel Settlement Resolves Insolvency | Bangladesh Tea Sector Returns to Pre-Pandemic Production Levels | PLUS A chat with the Rare Tea Lady on obligations to origin | and Denys Shortt on digitizing the Tea History Collection
-
Bangladesh Tea Rebounds
The tea sector in Bangladesh is expected to return to near pre-pandemic production levels after setbacks in 2020.
