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India Tea Board Helps Finance Small Tea Factories
April 17, 2018 Knowledge Dan Bolton

Tea Picker Picks Leaves. Photo credit: Thinkstockphotos.com The Tea Board of India, noting the fact that some 60 percent of tea there is produced by smallholders, is offering to subsidize construction. The factories cost about INRs2.5 million ($38,000) and can process about 500 kilos of tea per day (25,000 kilos of fresh leaf). The Tea

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Q & A With Shabnam Weber, Tea and Herbal Association of Canada
April 17, 2018 Knowledge Dan Bolton

Shabnam Weber, Tea and Herbal Association of CanadaShabnam   Shabnam Weber is the newly appointed president of the (THAC). Before accepting the position, she resigned from her role as president and chief executive of , a tea retail and wholesale company she cofounded in 2000. Weber served the past decade as a director of the

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High Garden Tea House: An Herbal Wellness Sanctuary
April 9, 2018 Knowledge Elizabeth Dobos

Leah and Joel Larabell at the High Garden Woodland Tea House & Sipping Apothecary At , Leah and Joel Larabell share their love of herbs and tea in a serene wellness-focused teahouse located in East Nashville, Tennessee. Leah Larabell Leah has worked with herbs most of her life and was drawn to them for their

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SerendipiTea’s Global Tea Championship Awards Improve Sales
March 5, 2018 Knowledge Elizabeth Dobos

SerendipiTea’s Jasmine Green tea. Photo by: serendipitea.com SerendipiTea was an outlier in the recent Global Tea Championship Single Serve Hot and Iced Small Batch competition, winning seven awards for various flavors. “We were really surprised and thrilled; it’s very exciting,” said Linda Villano, co-founder and president of SerendipiTea. The Manhasset, New York-based company has entered

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Global Tea Championship Attracts Innovative Blends
January 29, 2018 Knowledge Elizabeth Dobos

Global Tea Championship judge Gilbert Kendzior, photo by Christine Kapperman The Global Tea Championship took place Jan. 20 in Boulder, Colorado. Three judges, Scott Svihula, Gilbert Kendzior and Rob McCaleb, evaluated teas in the Single Serve Hot and Iced Small Batch categories. The competition drew 58 companies from 11 countries, including Sweden, Croatia and Trinidad.

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Budding Products: 3 Companies Offer New Functional Teas
January 16, 2018 Knowledge Elizabeth Dobos

Harney & Sons Introduces Tea for Athletes Photo credit: Harney.com Harney & Sons launched , a new line of three teas formulated for athletes. The flavors are: Go To Goji Recovery Hydration, Get Your Passion Berry Performance Hydration and Orange ManGo For It Performance Hydration Plus. “We are excited to offer a line of teas

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National Hot Tea Month Highlights the Love of Tea
January 8, 2018 Knowledge Elizabeth Dobos

Woman’s hand holding cup of tea with lemon on a cold day. Photo credit: ThinkStockphotos.com January is National Hot Tea Month and Jan. 12 is National Hot Tea Day. The National Tea Council of the USA wants tea drinkers to use this month to celebrate their love of tea. One opportunity to do so is

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Lawsuit Alleges Bigelow Tea Engages in False Marketing
December 26, 2017 Knowledge Dan Bolton

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) filed a lawsuit against R.C. Bigelow asking the court to issue an order that stops Bigelow from “false marketing” following the discovery of glyphosate in store-bought samples of the company’s classic green tea. The Richman Law Group, on behalf of the OCA, alleges Bigelow misrepresented its “all natural” tea because

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Court Blocks Starbucks Plans to Close 77 Teavana Mall Locations
December 5, 2017 Knowledge Dan Bolton

A Superior Court judge in Indiana has blocked Starbucks from closing 77 Teavana locations in malls operated by Simon Property Group. In August, after Starbucks announced it would close all 379 Teavana locations, Indianapolis-based Simon, the largest shopping mall operator in the world, filed suit seeking a temporary and permanent injunction. In the suit Simon

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Golden Tea Strikes Gold
December 4, 2017 Knowledge Pullock Dutta

OYAN, ARUNACHAL PRADESH, India Artisan teas for refined palates have long earned boutique gardens outsized reputations and profits. It is a model pioneered in China and adapted in Darjeeling, West Bengal that spread to the Nilgiris in Southern India and now extends to Arunachal Pradesh where the Donyi Polo Tea Estate has established a reputation

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