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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 38
Tea News for the Week of Oct. 8 | India Adopts Tea Industry Reforms | US Considers Granting Exemptions from Chinese Tariffs | A Tribute to Nepal Tea Maker Morris Orchard | Swiss inspired High Mountain Tea Houses in the Canadian Rockies.
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Jolene’s Tea House
In the Canadian Rockies tea houses are unique to Canadian culture. The tea houses were built by Swiss guides to be a refuge for hikers and explorers travelling and enjoying the majestic countryside. They are a part of history in Banff.
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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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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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Northwest Tea Festival
SEATTLE, Wash. — The Northwest Tea Festival is in full swing today with an enthusiastic crowd at Seattle Center. The annual event includes workshops, tastings, exhibits and demonstrations. Emeric Harney with Harney & Sons open the program Sunday telling attendees how tea is made. Harney’s personal travels have taken him to Africa, Asia and India.…
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Friday Roundtable: Water, water everywhere
Welcome to the Friday Roundtable, where we want to hear about your tea experience. Each week we present a topic that affects us all as tea business owners and tea consumers. Let’s talk tea. This week we’re thinking about water. The importance of water cannot be underestimated when it comes to tea preparation. Too hot…
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Wild Tea Hunter
Author: J.T. Hunter Illustrator: Shana Zhang The allure of China stimulates author J.T. Hunter’s sense of adventure as he takes readers off the beaten path into the major tea producing regions in search of uncultivated tea. He writes with a sensitive appreciation of ancient Chinese tea culture. His respect for the tea growers and tea…
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The Future of Tea
SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — The North American Tea Conference annually hosts an Industry Breakfast to consider difficult issues by engaging stakeholders from all sectors of the supply chain in a Q & A session. Organizer John Snell with Mother Parkers Coffee & Tea writes “this year was exceptional with the various representations from all sectors, including…
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Need To Know (Sept. 30, 2013)
What you need to start the week. Future of Tea Tea Mechanization The future is not an inheritance; it is an opportunity and an obligation. – Bill Clinton SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda – While the setting was idyllic, confronting the obstacles that lie ahead for the tea industry is the hard work undertaken last week by delegates…
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Gold Medal Tea Competition Winners
SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — The North American Tea Conference annually recognizes producing countries for excellence in tea. The Gold Medal Tea Competition groups entries by country regardless of type. This is unusual as oolong and green teas, for example, are quite different in characteristics. This is why judges are asked to rate the teas for qualities…
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Tea Association Farewell to Joe Simrany
SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Retiring President of the Tea Association of the USA Joseph P. Simrany on Wednesday basked in the warm wishes of a global tea industry he has served for nearly 23 years. Simrany, with wife Carol and his adult children, told the audience he is recovering from a recent heart attack and praised…
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Tea in the Triangle: Plotting Tea’s Future
SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — MGVK Bhanu, chairman of the India Tea Board, on Tuesday hosted a calypso evening for 150 tea executives vested in the North American market. The three-day North American Tea Conference, jointly sponsored by the Tea Association of the USA and the Tea Association of Canada, is focused on the future of tea.…
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Need to Know (Sept. 23, 2013)
What you need to start the week. Tea research points to memory benefits Price stable for India’s orthodox teas Tea Conference attendees consider future of tea Tea Health Medical researchers in China report that a cup of green tea improves memory, cognitive abilities and spatial awareness. The study, published in the journal Molecular Nutrition &…
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Investors Bet $1 Billion on Tea Retail
Retail News LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Investments, mergers and acquisitions fueling tea retail during the past 18 months reached an unprecedented $1 billion. Remarkably, investments in coffee retail during this same period top $10 billion. The latest move is a sizable (but undisclosed) investment in California-based Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. The deal was disclosed…
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Need to Know (Sept. 16, 2013)
What you need to start the week. Big Investment Consortium Backs Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf World Tea Expo | Healthy Beverage Expo Move to Long Beach in May 2014. India Green Leaf Price Minimums a Pittance Retail News LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Investments, mergers and acquisitions fueling tea retail during the past 18 months…
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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…
