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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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Puer Tea, Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
By Jinghong Zhang
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A Medicinal Tea from the Sea
Hiroshi Takatoh, CEO, founder, and blender at Japan-based Teatis Tea is exploring, with his team of food scientists and doctors, tea formulations to assist diabetics and pre-diabetics control their blood-sugar levels.
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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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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: 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
Sweet! Dan Bolton Publisher Dan founded Tea Journey Magazine (2015), the Tea Biz Blog | Podcast (2013), and is the tea editor at STiR Coffee and Tea. He is the former editor and publisher of World Tea News (2010) and Tea Magazine (2012) and the former editor-in-chief at San Francisco-based Specialty Coffee Retailer (2007) and…
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Brewing in Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Late at night in a Las Vegas hotel room at the height of World Tea Expo, the essence of tea is evident. This gathering includes some of the most refined pallets in the world, explorers and passionate tea drinkers whose books, retail operations and opinions shape the American and Canadian consumer experience.…
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Unraveling the Fibers of Silken Tea Bags
TWEET: Nylon versus corn-based PLA – Which tea sachet material will become the fiber of choice? In April 2013 The Atlantic published a story entitled “Are Tea Bags Turning Us Plastic?” examining the materials used in the increasingly popular “silken” tea sachets and pouches. It raised questions about the safety of these products for consumers.…
