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Dan Bolton, Editor and Producer, Tea Journey And Tea Biz
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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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Need to Know (Dec. 30, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Support tea innovator Christine Wheeler, founder of Drazil Kids Tea, as she competes Tuesday (Dec. 31) for the Dream Big America prize… Sri Lanka will pass the $1.5 billion mark for tea exports, setting a record… British Airways has perfected a tea that tastes great at 35,000…
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Need to Know (Dec. 23, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Holiday sales are strong with online surging. Starbucks breaks loyalty card record but fewer shopping days since Thanksgiving limited brick-and-mortar traffic. ShopperTrak reported that store traffic during the week of Dec. 15 dropped 19.9%… Tealet Discusses Benefits of Bitcoin Transactions…export earnings in Sri Lanka rose 10.7% through…
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Bitcoin Primer
World Tea News recently published an article on the emergence of many popular tea brands on offer in Bitcoin’s new online MegaStore. Larger retailers with a thorough understanding of the risks should definitely consider accepting Bitcoins as this digital currency promises to significantly lower the cost of online transactions. BusinessWeek reported Dec. 27 that Overstock.com will…
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Need to Know (Dec. 16, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Sunday was International Tea Day and today is a special anniversary for Americans as it marks the 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party… Shri M.G.V.K. Bhanu confirmed Sunday that he will soon depart as Chairman of the India Tea Board to take a government post in…
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Effective Strategies for Email Newsletters
For many tea companies, the email newsletter has been a critical tool for communicating with and maintaining a relationship with customers. These documents promote products, share information about the company and its people, and more than anything, attempt to grab attention in a sea of inbox clutter. Electronic newsletters have, in many cases, replaced print…
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Immerset
Brewing methods continue to evolve at both extremes. Last month I wrote about semi-automated $6,000 brewers ideally suited to coffee shop drive-thrus that can make multiple cups of tea in less than 90 seconds. Immerset is at the other extreme, a simple invention that combines the gentle immersion of a French press with the control…
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Pimp My Tea
China’s CNTV assigned a reporter to visit Los Angeles last week to describe the tea industry in America. The serious video report, hilariously but aptly titled Pimp My Tea, includes an interview with International Tea Importer (ITI, Inc.) and Chado Tea Room Founder Devan Shah, a visit to the American Tea Room in Beverly Hills…
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Need to Know (Dec. 9, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Look for a Downton Abbey tea truck roaming the streets of New York City this week… the Canadian government is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision that allows patients authorized to use medical marijuana to make hemp tea or bake it in their brownies… Watch a hilariously…
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Service and Innovation
Service and innovation differentiate tea retailers. At its core, specialty tea is a commodity since most blends use similarly sourced mid-grade green or black tea enhanced with ingredients and flavor. The lowest tier in the sector consists of tea-only blends that are bagged and retail for less than $300 a kilo. The entry point is…
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Need to Know (Dec. 2, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. The India Tea Board may get a new chairman… a Canadian study in the Journal of Toxicology revealed many teas contain sufficient concentrations of lead for physicians to recommend pregnant women “severely limit” their use… black tea production is up by 8.5% globally… tea prices at the…
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Giving Thanks
Since Dan lives up in Canada and I’m here in the U.S., the Tea Biz team has the good fortune of celebrating Thanksgiving twice a year. Dan has already had his and now it’s my turn. (I’ll send you some virtual turkey and pie though, Dan, if you’d like.) I had been preparing a more…
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Need to Know (Nov. 25, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Rooibee Red’s Heather Howell, Chief Tea Officer at the Louisville, Ky., firm succeeded in convincing Google to serve her Rooibos in the company’s employee cafeteria… relatively few of the 100,000 small tea-growers in Assam who pay taxes benefit from the general welfare fund… a Japanese study found…
