Tea Biz

HEAR THE HEADLINES – In the Black: Holiday Sales are Surging | CVC Capital Pays $5.1 Billion for Unilever’s Tea Portfolio | A Climate Change Adaptation Essential for Tea | NEWSMAKER – Evy Chen, founder of newly rebranded Evy Tea, Boston, Mass. | GUEST - Kym Cooper, co-founder of East Forged tea in Brisbane, Australia. | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz travels to Brisbane, Australia where East Forged...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Climate Pact Boosts Morale but Will Momentum Build? | Tea Lowers Risk and Severity of Stroke| Golden Leaf Awards Return | NEWSMAKER – Prabhat Bezboruah, Chairman of the Tea Board of India | FEATURES – India’s highest levels of government are reforming the basic structure of agriculture. The intent is to loosen regulations on pricing and storage and to permit direct sales of pr...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Ekaterra Tea Pledges to be Net Zero at the UN Convention on Climate Change | Grocery Shoppers Say they are Willing to Pay for Sustainably Produced Foods | Inflation Demonstrates a Troubling Persistence | NEWSMAKER – Prabhat Bezboruah, Chairman of the Tea Board of India | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week travels to India where the traditional tea plantation model is under regulator...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – A New Theory on How Green Tea Promotes Longevity | Bubble Tea Business is Frothing | Assam Smallholder Collective Launches National Brand | NEWSMAKER – SAMA Tea CEO Michael Parisi, co-found er 100 .co | GUESTS – Rodo Vasilaki at Tofillo Farms, Crete, Greece | Rick Chang manager Xue Jian Oolong Tea, Miaoli, Taiwan | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz travels to Miami, Florida to the...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Fairtrade International Predicts Growers Climate-Related Financial Disaster | Chemical Fertilizer Supplies Disrupted | Holiday Helpers Are in Short Supply | NEWSMAKER – Will Battle, author, consultant, and enthusiast for all things tea. Will trained as a taster in India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Malawi and has 20 years of experience sourcing tea. He is the author of “The World Te...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Sri Lanka Abandons Fertilizer Ban for Tea | Kenya’s KTDA Sets a Minimum Price for Auctioned Tea | AVPA Announces Teas of the World Winners | NEWSMAKER – Harkirat ”Harki” Sidhu, Rainforest Alliance India’s Consulting Program Coordinator for Sustainable Landscapes & Livelihoods | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz travels to Calcutta, India for an in-depth conversation with Harkir...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Food Inflation and Tea | Tea Cargo Woes Worsen | COVID Impact on Tea Market | GUEST – Kyle Whittington, TeaBookClub | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz visits London where Kyle Whittington reviews “Puer Tea, Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic” a meticulously researched cultural biography that reveals the intricacies of Pu’er. … and then to Yunnan, China, where ancient tea forests mark...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – India Announces Tea Industry Reforms | US Considers Exemptions to Chinese Tariffs | and a Tribute to Nepal Teamaker Morris Orchard | NEWSMAKER – Hiroshi Takatoh, founder Teatis Tea  | GUEST – Jolene Brewster, founder Jolene's Tea House | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz travels to Alberta, Canada, high in the Canadian Rockies to visit one of several Swiss-inspired tea houses d...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Kenya Exports Saturate the World’s Black Tea Market | COVID Depresses Japanese Tea Business in Unique Ways | Unilever is Recognized as the Top Food and Agriculture Benchmark  | NEWSMAKER – Mohit Agarwal Managing Director of the Asian Tea Group, owners of Cha de Magoma and the Monte Metilile brand  | GUEST – Supply chain and procurementexpert John Snell, principal at NM Tea B,...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Retail Forecasters Predict Happy Holidays | Restaurant Reticence is in Decline  | A Restructured DAVIDsTEA Expands into Pharmacies | NEWSMAKER – Subhasish Borah, Urbanist and Tea Enthusiast, Co-founder Folklore Tea, Guwahati, Assam | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz travels to Guwahati in Assam, India where the co-founders of Folklore Tea engage customers with an unusual level of...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Advent International Will Bid $4 Billion for Unilever’s Tea Portfolio | India Considers Halting Imports of Nepal Tea | Sales of Herbal Supplements in the US Reached a Record $10 Billion in 2020 | NEWSMAKER – Rainforest Alliance Director South Asia Madhuri Nanda  | GUEST – Caroline Giacomin, Ph. D., a physicist at ETH Zürich, Switzerland   | FEATURES – This week, Tea Biz travel...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Sri Lanka Tea Yields Feared to Decline | McLeod Russel Settlement Resolves Insolvency  | Bangladesh Tea Sector Returns to Pre-Pandemic Production Levels | NEWSMAKER – Tea History Collection Founder Denys Shortt, OBE   | GUEST – Henrietta Lovell, founder Rare Tea Co.  | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz visits with Rare Tea Lady Henrietta Lovell whose passion for tea is exceeded onl...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Timely Tea Delivery is in Troubled Waters | Tea is Thriving in the Convenience Channel | Iran Tea Production is Up 25pct | NEWS - The disruption of global supply chains is getting worse. Container vessel reliability for tea shipments crossing the Pacific continued to decline this summer as prices reached new heights. The World Container Index for eight East-West routes rose to...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Afghan Tea Market Concerns as Taliban Conquers Kabul | US Foodservice Recovery Rates Vary Widely by Sector | Researchers Confirm Heart Healthy Aspects of Tea | NEWSMAKER – Anshuman Kanoria, principal at Balaji Agro International and chairman of the Indian Exporters Association | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz visits Darjeeling, India on word of the sale of the iconic Jungpana an...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Delta Delivers Foodservice Setback | Why are Tea Tariffs Still in Place? | Tea Marathon Earns a Medal for Japan | NEWSMAKER – Philippe Juglar, President AVPA (Agency for the Valorization of Agricultural Products) | GUEST – Japanese Tea Marathon finisher Kyle Whittington, founder TeaBookClub | FEATURES – This week Tea Biz visits Japan for a victory celebration of the Tea Marath...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Top Tea Producer McLeod Russell India Faces Bankruptcy | A Tea Authentication Protocol to Chemically Verify Origins | Soggy Soil Keeps Kulhads in Short Supply | NEWSMAKER – Rona Tison executive vice president of ITO EN North America | GUEST – World Tea Academy Online Education Director Lisa Boalt Richardson | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week travels to New York where Rona Tison ex...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – India Tea Auction Mandate Chafes Producers | Smallholders Seek Higher Raw Leaf Minimums | Sharetea Ranks 6th Among Fastest Growing US Retail Chains | GUEST – Narendranath Dharmaraj, consultant and former plantation manager with Brooke Bond, Unilever, and Harrisons Malayalam | NEWSMAKER – Shabnam Weber, president Tea & Hearbal Association of Canada | FEATURES – Tea Biz this...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – The New Definition for Specialty Tea Gets Refined | Research Reveals That Children Benefit from Drinking Tea | and Unilever’s Tea Brand Divestiture is on Pace | GUEST – Kyle Whittington reviews The Life of Tea by Michael Freeman and Timothy d'Offay | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week visits the tea lands from on high where rising temperatures in the atmosphere are causing shift...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – New Criteria Proposed for Differentiating Specialty Tea | Walmart Tea is now 100% Certified by Rainforest Alliance | Kenya Sets Tea Auction Price Minimums | GUEST – Avinash Dugar, founder of the La Gravitea Cafe in Jamshedpur in the north Indian state of Jharkand | NEWSMAKER – David Veal, Executive Director, European Speciality Tea Association | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week tr...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Darjeeling is Experiencing a Severe Downturn | Researchers Discover Expanded Role for Microbes in Tea Making | Oxfam India Defines Living Wage for Assam Tea Workers | GUESTS – Kate Elliot, Catherine Drummond-Herdman, Pinkie Methven, Veronica Murray-Poore, Tea Gardens of Scotland , | NEWSMAKER – Carmién Tea founder Mientjie Mouton | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week travels to South...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – European Union Enforces Single-Use Plastics Rules | Easing Iranian Sanctions Benefits Tea Trade | Kenya Tea Auction Prices Plummet | GUEST – Rare tea book collector Donald Maxton, Tea Book Shop, Springfield, New Jersey | NEWSMAKER – FaithAnn Bailes, content and conference manager for World Tea Expo at Questex | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week travels to Las Vegas for a report on...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Logistics Companies Invest to Right the Ship | Kenya’s Newly Elected Board Moves into KTDA Headquarters | and Hain Celestial Streamlines its Tea Selections | GUEST – Alicia Gentili, of St. Clement, is project manager and tea maker at Jersey Fine Tea, a new tea estate on the Island of Jersey. | NEWSMAKER – Sparsh Agarwal, co-founder with Ishaan Kanoria of Dorje Teas in Darjeeli...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Sri Lanka’s Clean Tea Ambitions | COVID’s Toll on Tea Garden Workers | Tea Day Auction Yields Record Prices | and Nayuki’s Lucrative IPO | GUEST – Maria Uspenski, a cancer survivor, and author of Cancer Hates Tea . In 2004 Maria founded The Tea Spot , a tea wholesaler and teaware design company in Boulder, Colo. | NEWSMAKER – Jeff Champeau, vice president of business developme...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Cold Brew is Trending for Iced Tea Month | DAVIDsTEA in Canada Settles its Debts and Kenya Exports Surge but Auction Prices Remain Low | GUEST – Ravi Kroesen, head teamaker at Steven Smith Teamaker, in Portland, Ore. | NEWSMAKER – Amy Dubin-Nath, founder Janem Tea in Colombus, Ohio | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week travels to Columbus, Ohio to visit with Amy Dubin-Nath, founder o...

HEAR THE HEADLINES – Food Inflation Dampens Enthusiasm Over Rising Tea Prices | India’s Tea Industry Under Duress | and the European Union Grants Rooibos GI Protection | NEWSMAKER – Jan Holzapfel, owner of 198-year-old Ronnefeldt Tea in Frankfurt, Germany | FEATURES – Tea Biz this week travels to Frankfurt Germany to discuss best practices in Sustainable Wholesale with Jan Holzapfel, owner of Ronn...