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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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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…
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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…