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Dan Bolton, Editor and Producer, Tea Journey And Tea Biz
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 41
Tea News for the Week of Oct. 29 – Fairtrade International Predicts Climate-Related Financial Disaster for Small Tea Farms | Chemical Fertilizer Supplies Disrupted | Holiday Helpers are in Short Supply | PLUS wholesaler Will Battle details the added costs of producing specialty tea.
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The Cost of Producing Specialty Tea
Is manufacturing specialty tea worth the effort? “Frequently it probably isn’t considering the amount that growers need to invest from a financial and human resources perspective to make the very best teas,” says tea wholesaler Will Battle.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 40
Tea News for the Week of Oct. 22 – Sri Lanka Abandons Fertilizer Import Ban | Kenya’s KTDA Sets a Minimum Price for Auctioned Tea | AVPA Announces Teas of the World Winners | PLUS Harkirat Sidhu on Mechanical Tea Harvesting
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Mechanical Tea Harvesting
Mechanical harvesting is required today because we cannot complete plucking rounds frequently enough by hand. We need mechanical harvesting in addition to hand plucking, not to replace hand plucking.
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Tea Biz Podcast | Episode 39
Tea News for the Week of Oct. 15 – Food Inflation and Tea | Tea Cargo Woes Worsen | COVID’s Impact on the North American Tea Market | PLUS The Popularity of Pu’er
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Puer Tea, Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
By Jinghong Zhang
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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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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…
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Need to Know (Sept. 9, 2013)
What you need to know to start the week. Unilever buys T2, Australia’s $50 million market leading tea retailer. Retail News COLLINGWOOD, Victoria – Unilever kicked off their retail shop game with a Lipton store 15 years ago but later fumbled the ball in Belgium and stumbled with Bru World Cafes in India. Last week’s…
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How much of a premium does it take to make premium tea special?
What is the threshold price for premium tea? From a retailer’s perspective it is tea that grosses at least $300 per kilo. A 50-gram pouch of specialty tea that sells for $15 puts 30-cents a gram into the retailer’s till compared to between 2.5- and 5-cents per gram for commodity tea.* Specialty Tea Pricing Benchmark…
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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…
