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Need to Know (Dec. 23, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Holiday sales are strong with online surging. Starbucks breaks loyalty card record but fewer shopping days since Thanksgiving limited brick-and-mortar traffic. ShopperTrak reported that store traffic during the week of Dec. 15 dropped 19.9%… Tealet Discusses Benefits of Bitcoin Transactions…export earnings in Sri Lanka rose 10.7% through…
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Need to Know (Dec. 16, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Sunday was International Tea Day and today is a special anniversary for Americans as it marks the 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party… Shri M.G.V.K. Bhanu confirmed Sunday that he will soon depart as Chairman of the India Tea Board to take a government post in…
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Need to Know (Dec. 9, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. Look for a Downton Abbey tea truck roaming the streets of New York City this week… the Canadian government is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision that allows patients authorized to use medical marijuana to make hemp tea or bake it in their brownies… Watch a hilariously…
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Need to Know (Dec. 2, 2013)
What tea professionals need to start the week. The India Tea Board may get a new chairman… a Canadian study in the Journal of Toxicology revealed many teas contain sufficient concentrations of lead for physicians to recommend pregnant women “severely limit” their use… black tea production is up by 8.5% globally… tea prices at the…
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Giving Thanks
Since Dan lives up in Canada and I’m here in the U.S., the Tea Biz team has the good fortune of celebrating Thanksgiving twice a year. Dan has already had his and now it’s my turn. (I’ll send you some virtual turkey and pie though, Dan, if you’d like.) I had been preparing a more…
