The China Tea Marketing Association (CTMA)
The China Tea Marketing Association (CTMA) was found in 1992
Year: 2018
Year: 2018
4 International Teas to Watch in U.S. Beverage Market
Moringa; photo: GettyImages.com ROCKVILLE, Maryland—The genie is out of the (ready-to-drink) bottle when it comes to a growing number of U.S. consumers willing to try beverages from all over the world. A slowdown in immigration might reduce the speed with which the trend takes place, but in the long run, the U.S. will remain a
San Francisco Straw Ban Prompts Boba Crisis
Iced milky bubble tea with tapioca pearls. Fruit and berry bubble tea variety. Raspberry, mango, lemon mint bubble tea. Photo: GettyImages.com 2018 is shaping up to be the Year of the Plastic Straw Ban: Seattle 2018, Santa Barbara 2019, Disney 2019, San Francisco 2020, Starbucks 2020, Taiwan 2030, plus Now and Soon and Sometime American
Kenya Court Halts Unilever Voluntary Retirement Program
Workers harvest tea in Kenya. Photo: GettyImages.com Kenya is experiencing a tense transition as owners of colonial-era tea plantations abandon tightly held vertical supply chains in favor of less expensive and more agile options for sourcing and processing tea. Unilever’s Kericho tea operations, which date to 1924, include 20 estates spanning 21,500 acres (8,700 hectares)
Steampunk Brings Precision to Tea Brewing
Photo courtesy of Alpha Dominche The typical American teahouse doesn’t have an automated tea brewer, simply because there are very few commercial-grade machines on the market. Instead, teas are usually hand-brewed—often several at once—which is time consuming and customarily imprecise. To modernize tea brewing, create consistency and make tea shop employees’ jobs easier, , a
Charleston Tea Plantation Co-founder Dies
Mack Fleming In 1987 when Thomas J. Lipton Co., decided to divest its only U.S. tea farm on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, horticulturalist Mack James Fleming and tea broker Bill Hall purchased the property, saving for posterity the Charleston Tea Plantation and the American Classic tea brand. Fleming, 75, died last week at his home
What Defines Specialty Tea?
Jasmine Pearl Pioneer specialty coffee trader Erna Knutsen, who passed away this summer at 96, was among the first green coffee buyers to champion the skills of coffee growers and to recognize the taste benefits of quality processing techniques. In her catalog of offerings Knutsen described characteristics inherent in terroir and priced them into transactions.
Camellia Sinensis Wins 2 World Tea Awards
Camellia Sinensis Latin Quarter Location, photo courtesy of Kevin Gascoyne Quebec’s took home two World Tea Awards at the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas in June. The 20-year-old Canadian business was named Best Retail Tea Shop, Café, Bar and also won Best E-commerce Tea Website. Helmed by four business partners with interests in different
Budding Products: More Matcha in Multiple Formats
ITO EN Debuts 3 New Matcha Love Flavors Photo courtesy of ITO EN Brooklyn-based has added three new flavors to its premium matcha LOVE Tea bag line, bringing the total up to six. The new matcha blends are: Blueberry+ Lavender, Peach+ Cinnamon and Turmeric+Yuzu. The other flavors in the collection are: Traditional, Apple + Ginger
Innovation in Kenyan Teas
Kenya grows some superb teas that lose identity as the crop moves through bush-to-cup logistics and ends up as a commodity ingredient in a tea bag blend. The value chain is marked by many disconnects: conflicting interests, resource gaps, climate volatility, financial structures and global market factors. Much of Kenya’s tea policy and negotiation are
Crowd Funders Reward Cold-brew Tea and Alcohol Infusion with $250k Investment
Infusing tea and alcohol dates to the 1700s with the Hot Toddy (first known as hot whiskey) appearing in 1786 and with green tea punches popular since colonial times in the Americas. Last year, Newcastle blender Tea Venture Ltd., introduced Noveltea, an alcohol-based cold-brew tea that continues the British tradition. The company is one