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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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Dan Bolton Editor and Producer, Tea Journey and Tea Biz
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What Changes Are Being Proposed by the FDA for Labels?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering new requirements for nutrition labeling for food and beverage products that will, among others, impact companies with ready-to-drink tea products. The FDA feels that the 20-year-old labeling systems would benefit from an overhaul to better inform consumers in their choices. There are two fundamental parts to the…
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Teavana Update
— Hard numbers are hard to find but a year after it was sold to Starbucks Teavana appears to be on a roll. At the company’s annual meeting in March CEO Howard Schultz introduced Oprah Chai Tea in a surprise announcement that brought the celebrity on stage to discuss her love for tea. The audience…
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Survey Shows Tea Topping Soda Among Adults
NEW ORLEANS, LA– The National Coffee Association’s survey of drinking trends for the first time in decades revealed the number of past-day tea drinkers is greater than adults choosing soda. What did you drink yesterday? is one of the National Coffee Drinking Trends questions: Soda fell to 41% behind coffee, tap water (54%) and tea…
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Need to Know (March 24, 2014)
What tea professionals need to start the week — New York Coffee & Tea Wraps Up…Tough week at the tea auctions… Third Street Chai breaks into Whole Foods in a big way…New book on Homegrown Tea New York Coffee & Tea Another Sold Out Success This past weekend New York Coffee & Tea Festival…
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Oprah Chai Tea
By Peggy Watt Starbucks has underscored Teavana’s role in the company by teaming with chai-loving icon Oprah Winfrey, who arrived to cheers at Starbucks’ annual shareholders meeting in Seattle March 19 to introduce Teavana Oprah Chai, a custom blend arriving in Teavana and Starbucks stores next month. A year and a half after Starbucks bought…
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Patent Persuasion – Need to Know
What tea professionals need to start the week — Single-serve lawsuits draw a line in the sand… growers of Honeybush in South Africa voice concern over rising demand… AriZona retains its position as the market leader in ready-to-drink tea in convenience stores… Numi introduces single serve tea in RealCups. Patent Persuasion Numi Organic Tea announced…
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Need to Know (March 10, 2014)
What tea professionals need to start the week — CBC reports pesticide residues greater than legal threshold… China tightens food safety rules leading tea gardens to reduce reliance on pesticides… “Be More Tea” generates plenty of social buzz… Harney & Sons introduce tea in K-Cup compatible capsules… Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf introduces tea granitas.…
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Popular Tea Brands Exceed Threshold for Pesticide Residue
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) aired an exclusive report backed by laboratory findings showing several popular tea brands contain pesticide residue exceeding the government mandated threshold. Test results from the CBC’s Marketplace Consumer Watchdog Blog can be viewed here. Responses from tea companies tested in the report can be viewed here. Authorities stressed that minute…
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Need to Know (March 3, 2014)
What tea professionals need to start the week — European restrictions on the import of Japanese tea ease April 1… Meet 700-year-old Chigusa … Credit markets are expected to be more active in 2014… Numi Organic Tea secures $4.75 million working capital… Jamba is juiced over Drink Green offerings… Zest high octane tea triples the…
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Tea Magazine Evolves…
— PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — Tea Magazine® a 20-year-old consumer publication for tea enthusiasts is replacing its bi-monthly print edition with a combined print +online content package for its readers, including a new book-style softcover guide to tea published annually. In mid-April ITEM Media will launch The Daily Tea (www.thedailytea.com) a subscription-based tea portal replacing www.teamag.com.…
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Need to Know (Feb. 24, 2014)
What tea professionals need to start the week — Whimsical teapots are the work of 50 artists celebrating the Fif-TEA Anniversary invitational of the Crafts Alliance in St. Louis, Mo….China and the U.S. make a climate change pledge against a backdrop of air pollution and a summer drought that damaged China’s most valuable tea growing…
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Teavana Founder Andy Mack Leaves Starbucks
ATLANTA, Ga. — In 1997 entrepreneur Andy Mack and his wife Nancy, a former Walt Disney World Resort customer service manager, opened their first Teavana storefront at Phipps Plaza (Lenox Square Mall). During the 10 years that followed he changed the name from Elephant Tea Co., perfected the format, acquired prime retail locations in some…
