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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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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 31
Delta Delivers Foodservice Setback | Why are Tea Tariffs Still in Place? | Tea Marathon is a Victory for Japanese Growers | PLUS AVPA’s 4th Annual Teas of the World Competition.
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Victory for Japanese Tea Marathon
As athletes from around the world competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, tea lovers participated in an event of their own: the Japanese Tea Marathon. The marathon included 15 days of online events that shone a spotlight on Japan’s teas, producers, and the 15 tea-producing regions. Led by the Global Japanese Tea Association and Japan…
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India’s Tea Auction Mandate
Context and a perspective on the Indian government’s enforcement of regulations that curtail private tea sales.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 30
India’s Top Producer McLeod Russel Faces Bankruptcy | Tea Authentication Standard Chemically Verifies Origins | Soggy Soil Keeps Terracotta Kulhads in Short Supply | PLUS Ito En’s Rona Tison on why tea is the ideal base for function-enhancing blends and Lisa Boalt Richardson describes the World Tea Academy’s newest certification.
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Natural Tea Energy
Cross category tea blends bridge traditional retail categories such as energy and refreshment; and have successfully carved out space on the shelf next to functional beverages as low-sugar organic, clean label alternatives to fortified waters and juice.
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Is Tea Divisible?
Is there a dividing line that separates the enormous varieties and styles of tea into commodity and specialty or is tea quality best viewed as a continuum?
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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: 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…
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Dueling Brewers
TWEET: Two sophisticated, quick-brewing, semi-automatic tea makers face off. LAS VEGAS, Nev. Calculating the number of tea lattes sold daily is a daunting task. Millions upon millions and growing fast is my guess, based on conversations with Starbucks baristas and the management at Argo Tea. Tea lattes (or more elegantly, tea cambrics*) are one of…
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Tea Business Boot Camp
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Watching the New Business Boot Camp graduates eagerly autograph the class poster last week offers a glimpse of the future of tea retail. The 2013 class of 134 hailed from near and far. It was composed of more gals than guys and blended the young and the gray. Many came to study…
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Chambre De Sucre
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