Category: News

Assam Labor Abuse Inspires Public Awareness Campaign
June 25, 2018 News Dan Bolton

Tea pickers harvesting tea leaves in Assam, India. GettyImages.com Assam’s largest tea estates have been cited in disturbing reports of labor abuse and child trafficking the past few years, tarnishing the reputation and marketability of one of the world’s best-known teas. Four years ago, the World Bank, university researchers, and NGOs investigating mistreatment led to

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Turmoil at DAVIDsTEA Leads to Missed Opportunity
June 19, 2018 News Dan Bolton

MONTREAL, Quebec Joel Silver DAVIDsTEA President and CEO Joel Silver resigned this week after a vicious proxy battle that returned control of the public company to co-founder Herschel Segal. A block of investors, led by TDM Asset Management Director Benjamin Gisz, and supported by proxy consultants Glass, Lewis & Co., vigorously objected to a seven-member

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Replenish Retail: The Refill Revolution
June 18, 2018 News Dan Bolton

Home An Australian specialty tea company has developed compostable refill packaging and fill-your-own bulk dispensers in support of “.” Two million Australian consumers already have pledged to avoid single-use packaging, a national promotion that adds momentum to the “refill revolution.” Founder Anthia Koullouros says is one of the first Australian tea companies to embrace sustainable,

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McLeod Russel Sells 12 Assam Tea Estates
June 11, 2018 News Pullock Dutta

McLeod Russel is selling off several tea estates in Assam. McLeod Russel, the largest tea plantation company in the world, announced the sale of 12 estates in eastern Assam last week, continuing a decade long pattern of divestment by multinationals. The memorandum of understanding is subject to regulatory approvals, which are expected in the next

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Tea Opportunity for Florida Growers
June 11, 2018 News Peter Keen

Waverly Tea Estate, near Waverly, Fla., is one of the first citrus orchards to experiment with growing tea. Tea was first planted in 2011 but larger-scale production took an additional five years. Can tea become an alternative crop in Florida for its mainstay citrus crops? That’s the question that business owners and university researchers across

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5 New Ways to Serve Rooibos
June 11, 2018 News Elizabeth Dobos

Healthy rooibos red tea latte topped with cinnamon; GettyImages.com Rooibos has long been enjoyed in South Africa, and now Americans and Europeans are appreciating the brew in various formats. Here are five creative ways to serve rooibos. Rooibos Espresso and Lattes In March, launched two Rooibos Lattes: the Starbucks Rooibos Latte and the Red Apple

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Bigelow Tea Becomes Benefit Corporation
June 7, 2018 News Press Release

Photo credit: BigelowTea.com Bigelow Tea is announcing the recently attained distinction of becoming a Benefit Corporation. The family company is the No. 1 Specialty Tea market leader, manufacturing “Constant Comment”® and more than 150 tea varieties sold nationwide. Now officially registered as a Benefit Corporation, it is one of a select group of companies that

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Budding Products: RTD Cascara, Chai and Rooibos
May 29, 2018 News Elizabeth Dobos

Peloton Launches RTD Cascara Tea West Chester, Pennsylvania-based coffee company formulated a new line of four ready-to-drink cascara teas. Cascara is the Spanish word for “husk” and is the name used for the dried skins that encompass coffee beans. It is full of antioxidants gleaned from chlorogenic acid, while containing less caffeine than coffee. Peloton’s

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This Home Brewer is Built to Do it All
May 22, 2018 News Dan Bolton

Pico Brewer Kickstarter is the birthplace of many devices, clever ideas all, but littered in the aftermath are many tales in which donors funded a product only to see it fail to materialize. That is why some viewed with skepticism the launch last week of ’s combination craft beer maker that brews kombucha and makes

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Teacraft’s Nigel Melican to Receive ‘The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award’ at World Tea Expo, June 12-14 in Las Vegas
May 21, 2018 News Aaron Kiel

Melican to Be Honored During the World Tea Awards at World Tea Expo on June 12 Nigel Melican has been made a centenary chair at the Tea Research Association of India NEW YORK (May 23, 2018) — Nigel Melican, managing director of , will receive The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award at , to be

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