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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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World Tea Academy Partners with Australian Tea Masters to Refresh Online Curriculum
Australian Tea Masters CEO Sharyn Johnston, the new Head of Education at World Tea Academy, says her company built a modern online education platform with enhanced content for the Academy to train waitstaff and advance the quality of specialty tea in food service. “One of the things we’ve already introduced is a new Basic Foundation…
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India Tea News: Commerce Minister Meets Tea Industry Stakeholders | Darjeeling Tea Harvest Down by 9% to 6.5 Million Kilos
Commerce Minister Meets Tea Industry Stakeholders Seeking Financial Aid | Darjeeling Tea Volumes Down by 9% | Harvest under 6.5 metric tons, lowest in 50 years | Episode 150 |
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India Tea News: Food Safety Standards Impact Tea | Dedicated Tea Hub Planned in Kolkata | Assam Considering Industrial Use of Tea Plantations
India Update: Headline text goes here | Episode 149 |
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A Humble Titan in Specialty Tea
In 2023, the tea industry bid farewell to several notable figures. In this episode, we pay tribute to David C. Bigelow, Jr., an industry icon who died in June at 96. David transformed the specialty tea segment in the US, steering a boutique tea blending business launched in his mother’s kitchen into a multi-million-dollar mass-market…
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A Year of Fire and Now, Ice | UC Davis Colloquium: Tea in a Changing World | SYSTM Foods acquires HUMM Kombucha
Iran Tea Company CEO Implicated in $3.7 Billion Embezzlement Scandal | Shipping Shock: Missile Threat Diverts Suez-Bound Tea Cargo | Malawi Anticipates a Steep Decline in Tea Production | PLUS Cindi Bigelow, President and CEO of R.C. Bigelow Tea pays tribute to her father David C. Bigelow, who passed in June at 96. | Episode…
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India Tea News: Assam to Open 2024 with Tea Bicentenary celebrations | GTAC Auction Centre Closes the Year on a High | The Reason Tea is Commemorated on December 15
India Tea News: Assam to Host the Bicentenary Event for Tea | GTAC Tea Auction Closes the Year on a High | International Tea Day | Episode 148
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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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Trustea Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Kenya’s KTDA Chair Resigns Following Tea Reforms Conference | David Ichoho later Withdrew a Lawsuit Alleging His Resignation was Forced | Nestle Announces Cost-Effective Sugar Reduction Technology | AriZona Unveils a Hard Iced Tea – Monster is next | PLUS Trustea was launched in 2013 by tea industry stakeholders, and producers determined to elevate the…
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India’s Holistic Tea Sustainability Code
Since its was founded a decade ago India’s trustea sustainability code has expanded to 65% of domestic tea production covering the supply chain from the fields where the tea is picked up through manufacturing and the dispatch from the factory. “We look at sustainability in a holistic way, we think that environment, livelihood, and safety…
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TeaFit: Unsweetened Iced Tea and Herbal Goodness
There are many herbal recipes from our own Ayurveda. We selected tea as a base to make the blends flavorful and light on the palate and not douse everything with loud flavor and sugar. So that’s where it came from, a very personal place, but I’m glad it found resonance in the larger customer base. -…
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Unrelenting Heat is Lowering Tea Yields
Unrelenting Heat is Lowering Tea Yields | Global average air temperatures reach a new high | Herbal Tea Market Growth is Accelerating | Dilmah Tea Founder Merrill J Fernando Passes | PLUS Pradeep Kumar Sacitharan, CEO of London-based Donsfield discusses the critical role of data in defining consumer demand | Episode 126
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Built on Beneficence
Romesh Walpola, CEO of Tea Smallholder Factories in Sri Lanka discusses how investing in smallholder training, wellness, and educational programs, including internships for second-generation farmers, earns the loyalty of thousands of small tea growers and top dollar for teas sold at auction.
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World Tea Academy Celebrates First Decade
The World Tea Academy is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The online resource offers comprehensive basic and advanced training for tea professionals and enthusiasts. Director Lisa Boalt Richardson joins us for a conversation about the resilience and relevance of the academy: “There’s always a market for good quality tea education,” she says.
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English Edition of El Té Gourmet Argentino Released
Author Horacio Bustos in July 2023 released an English-language version of of El Té Gourmet Argentino, an exhaustive analysis of the origin, customs, and practices of gourmet tea in Argentina.
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Iran and Sri Lanka Revive $250 Million Tea-for-Oil Barter
Iran and Sri Lanka Revive $250 Million Tea-for-Oil Barter | Decade Old Oil Debt to be Settled in $5 Million Monthly Installments of Tea | India Exporters Expect Iran to Resume Buying Tea Halted Since November | Israel Declares Wissotzky Tea a Monopoly | Rohit Jawa Takes Charge at Hindustan Unilever | PLUS Organizers of…
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India Reviews Raw Leaf Price-Sharing Formula
India Reviews Raw Leaf Price-Sharing Formula | Consultants BDO India has six months to complete an extensive report on cultivation and processing costs | US Fast-food Outlets Have Yet to Rollout Boba Nationally | The European Speciality Tea Association Offers Tea Barista Foundation Certificates to Coffee Shop Staff | PLUS The school teaches that knowledge…
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Thirst-Quenching Cold Brew Teas
As Temperatures Rise, Tea is Ideally Suited to Quench the World’s Thirst | Consumers favor boldly flavored, non-sweetened blends | Kenya’s Costly Tea Crisis | The Tea Association of India Lists Industry Concerns | PLUS The Smallholder Factories in Sri Lanka invest in training, wellness, and educational programs, including internships for second-generation farmers, to earn…
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The Pearl Temple
The stupa is the heart of the temple. It is a hemispherical structure containing relics of the Buddha placed there by 2,500 years ago by the local chieftain, Indaka
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Badulla Tea Harvest Blessing
Accompanied by drummers and dancers, planters and tea pluckers in Sri Lanka’s Uva Province, paraded through the city streets of Badulla to the ancient Muthiyangana Raja Maha Vihara Temple courtyard, where a Buddhist monk blessed their first harvest tea.
