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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

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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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Future-Proof Your Tea Business

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Dan Bolton Editor and Producer, Tea Journey and Tea Biz

  • Samovar Launches New Tea Bar Concept – Need to Know

    What tea professionals need to start the week of June 16, 2014 — Samovar Tea Bar launches a new tea retail concept worth watching…Honest Tea sells its billionth bottle… George Jage, founder of World Tea Expo, exits… Barak Obama sneaks out for a cup of tea. Samovar’s Clever Retail Concept SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Jesse…

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  • World Cup 2014 – Tea Style

    In our house, my passion for tea may only be rivaled by my husband’s passion for soccer. It is unavoidable then that there would be a great deal of talk about the opening of this year’s World Cup. Brackets have been passed around the house and kids and adults alike are making their picks. It…

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  • Teavana Shaken Iced Tea – Need to Know

    What tea professionals need to start the week of June 9, 2014 — We should all be drinking iced tea this week in celebration of National Iced Tea Month and out of necessity as temperatures climb… Starbucks debuts an iced tea commercial promoting Teavana shaken tea (with a national tea giveaway Tuesday)… Nestea positions for a comeback… the final count…

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  • Helicopter Rescue

    Perched in a tree jutting from a cliff hundreds of feet above fast-moving Mountain Home Creek I would have welcomed a calming cup of tea. SAN GORGONIO WILDERNESS, Calif. – A few miles from Angeles Oaks Calif., there is a trailhead on Hwy. 38 leading to Mountain Home Flats, an early settler’s homestead located in…

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  • World Tea Expo Opens – Need to Know

    What tea professionals need to start the week of May 26, 2014 — World Tea Expo opens in Long Beach this week with a very strong educational program and an exciting show floor with several new exhibitors… see all the finalists for the Best New Products Awards listed below… Teavana co-located its newest concept store…

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  • Tea Cozy Competition Sweeps Australia

    Participants took up knitting needles, chain mail and astroturf to create some of the most unusually tea cozies for this year’s Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival in Australia. Featuring music, movies, music workshops, a makers’ fair, and afternoon teas, the ten day festival (May 16-25) is also hosting its second tea cozy competition. Fish Creek,…

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  • India’s New Prime Minister Worked as a Tea Vendor – Need to Know

    What tea professionals need to start the week of May 19, 2014 — India’s Narendra Modi, a childhood tea vendor, will be the next prime minister. Modi’s pro-business platform and decisive leadership is welcome according to tea industry executives but his uneasiness with Congress Party’s tea worker subsidies make the future unclear… World Tea Expo begins Tuesday May 27 with Tea…

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  • Global Consolidation of Tea & Coffee Goliaths – Need to Know

    What tea professionals need to start the week of May 12, 2014 — Global consolidation in the coffee and tea segment has led to more than 100 deals valued at $23 billion the past five years. Last week’s proposed combination of Mondelez International’s coffee brands (Maxwell House) with D.E. Master Blenders 1753 BV (Douwe Egberts) will…

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  • Need to Know (May 5, 2014)

    What tea professionals need to start the week — Watch for Mother’s Day TV ads promoting Oprah Chai this week… Services for Herbert Hyman, the pioneering founder of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, were conducted over the weekend… Seattle-based Choice Organic Teas celebrated its 25th Anniversary during the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s annual conference……

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  • Choice Organic Teas

    SEATTLE, Wash. – “Great minds think alike” nicely sums the emergence of organics which was seeded in the 1940s but remained a sapling until commercial advocates pushed through legislation leading to government regulated third party certification of tea. In 1989 Blake Rankin, the founder of Choice Organic Teas, was inspired to exclusively offer pesticide-free, sustainably…

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  • Need to Know (April 30, 2014)

    What tea professionals need to know this week — Award winning Maine tea house up for sale….Milo’s Tea reaches new markets…Teavana opens new location in Chicago…Book deal for Zhena’s Gypsy Teas founder….The press can’t get over the President’s introduction to green tea ice cream…Stash walks away from Sustainable Forest Initiative   Maine’s Clipper Merchant Tea…

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  • Austin Hodge’s Qingming Report 2014

    Qing Ming 2014 By Austin Hodge, President of Seven Cups Seven Cups is an importer of Chinese tea, located in Tucson, Arizona Filed April 6, 2014. An abridged version appeared in World Tea News previously. Read our previous story about Qing Ming and its meaning from our April 7 Need to Know post. I started…

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