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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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Q|A Jan Holzapfel
Sustainable best practices at tea gardens are well established, the rest of the supply chain offers significant opportunities to protect the environment and conserve resources.
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Japanese Tea Marathon
The Japan Tea Marathon is a series of live online events featuring teas from 15 of Japan’s tea producing regions. Zoom sessions begin July 23 and are held twice daily, concluding Aug. 8. Two hundred competing brewers and 1000 regular admissions give the entire world of tea an opportunity to cheer their favorite to victory.
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The Charm of Vancouver’s Chinatown
Jessica Natale Woollard takes listeners on an audio trip to both Treasure Green and the Chinese Tea Shop in Vancouver, British Columbia’s historic Chinatown.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 20
Tea Industry News for the week ending June 4. – Pandemic Powers Organic Sales | Tea Cafes Cautiously Re-opening | Tata Expands Direct-to-Customer Range | Buyers Spend Big at Chinese International Tea Expo | PLUS Simona Suzuki on the Japan Tea Marathon and Jessica Natale Woollard walks listeners through Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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Pandemic Powers Organic Sales
Import values for organic green tea spiked in 2020
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China International Tea Expo
Live tea expositions, seminars, and tradeshows are returning with vigor in China. The five-day China International Tea Expo that opened in Hangzhou May 21 drew a crowd of 152,000 mainly domestic tea buyers. In aggregate they spent RMB6.4 billion purchasing 254 million tons of tea, a 14% increase compared to the previous event.
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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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Friday Roundtable: Caffeine Questions
My regular readers know that caffeine is a topic of particular interest to me. Tea drinkers are often in search of information about caffeine content in their cup and, unfortunately, the information disseminated is often based on rumor and tradition versus current research and science. We covered some of the myth and lore of caffeine…
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Need to Know (Sept. 9, 2013)
What you need to know to start the week. Unilever buys T2, Australia’s $50 million market leading tea retailer. Retail News COLLINGWOOD, Victoria – Unilever kicked off their retail shop game with a Lipton store 15 years ago but later fumbled the ball in Belgium and stumbled with Bru World Cafes in India. Last week’s…
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How much of a premium does it take to make premium tea special?
What is the threshold price for premium tea? From a retailer’s perspective it is tea that grosses at least $300 per kilo. A 50-gram pouch of specialty tea that sells for $15 puts 30-cents a gram into the retailer’s till compared to between 2.5- and 5-cents per gram for commodity tea.* Specialty Tea Pricing Benchmark…
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Friday Roundtable: The flavors of fall
While there are a few more weeks until the calendar officially turns its page to fall (in the northern hemisphere), many of us are already feeling the cooler breezes and the sounds of school buses. A change of seasons, approaching holidays, and new schedules also affect our customers’ tea drinking habits. In today’s Friday Roundtable,…
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Need to Know (Sept. 3, 2013)
What you need to know to start the week. CTC prices are sliding due to disruptions in trade with Egypt, the world’s fifth largest tea importer. Kenya, India and Sri Lanka are experiencing falling prices amid declining sales of the low- to medium-quality tea which they have in abundance. India is on track to export…
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Friday Roundtable: Earl Grey
Friday Roundtable is a series of discussions and informal polls exploring aspects of the business that tea professionals don’t frequently consider. In this inaugural Roundtable our focus is Earl Grey. To start things off, we spent some time talking with Ahmed Rahim, Co-founder and CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Numi Tea; David Barenholtz, CEO of American Tea Room…
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Need to Know (August 26, 2013)
What beverage professionals need to know to start the week. Tea trade in the Middle East is disrupted again by Egyptian unrest and harvest challenges in Iran compound that countries ability to meet domestic needs. Protests for a political home for the Nepali-speaking Gorka in the far northern portion of West Bengal, India continue to…
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Need to Know (Aug. 19, 2013)
What you need to know to start the week. Origin DARJEELING, India – An economic blockade of tea will expand this week to include timber as the Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC) seeks official recognition of a state to be carved from Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts. The five-day protest that began Aug. 19 will slow…
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Stir It Up: Exploring Cocktail Infusions
TWEET: What tea-based cocktails make their way into your martini glasses or champagne flutes? Looking for a new cocktail for your summer parties? As tea lovers we’re usually happy to add another tea element to our events. Fortunately for us, New York-based company The Teaologist is the latest entrant into the specialty tea cocktail arena…
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Expanding your Market through Collaboration
TWEET: Partnering with craft brewers, ice cream makers and cosmetics co. may help tea sellers expand markets. Tea purveyors have created many routes for reaching audience with their products — sales through retail chains, wholesale to restaurants and hotels, catalogs, online shops, at-home parties. Each supplier spends time trying to differentiate itself from the other…
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Anti-spam Legislation
TWEET: Canada soon to adopt anti-spam legislation with stiff penalties. OTTAWA, Canada Canada is getting tough on restricting unsolicited spam with new legislation that can result in $1 million fines for individuals and $10 million fine per violation for corporations. The CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation) is likely to take effect this fall. As it stands…
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Sorry Mom, but It’s Good to Dunk
TWEET: You finally have permission to act like a kid. Dunking cookies in tea is good. Thank you science. We’ve all done it at one point or another — dipped an Oreo in milk, a piece of doughnut in a cup of coffee, a biscuit in a mug of tea. Now we can feel fully justified in…