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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Malta, a small island comprising of an archipelago of islands in the Mediterranean, has been ruled by a succession of powers over the centuries due to its strategic [...]

Lynette Jee, a civil rights attorney, left her law practice and invested in a tea business called The Pacific Place Inc. in 1995. Her business grew to more than $300,000 by 2006. Other details about Jee's tea shop business are discussed.

Lynette Jee, a civil rights attorney, left her law practice and invested in a tea business called The Pacific Place Inc. in 1995. Her business grew to mid-$300,000s by 2006. Other details about Jee's tea shop business are discussed.

Porlock (population 1,300) is one of those picture-postcard villages in southwest England, which pulls in thousands of day-trip holidaymakers. Lying at the foot of a hill on the edge of [...]

The past few years have witnessed a burgeoning specialty tea category, as tea products that are designed to elevate the caliber of the consumer's tea experience have exploded onto the […]

I SOON FOUND OUT that people are fickle. They would come in and rave on and on about how cute the shop was, some even spending a good sum of [...]

When Mark Retzloff and S.M. 'Hass' Hassan opened Pearl Street Market in Boulder in 1979, they could look across the street and see Steve Demos in his tiny vegan deli [...]

AS AN AVID TEA DRINKER, I know when I have a good cup of tea--it doesn't need to be sweetened. And it will be robust in flavor. I've drunk too [...]

Retailers continue to ride the tails of unprecedented growth in the tea category. Not too long ago, most retailers offered mediocre tea to the few customers who happened to venture [...]

If the numbers are any indication, then tea is surely becoming to the 2000's what coffee was to the '90's--a bonafide 'lifestyle' item. Its symbolism as a drink that is [...]

The Private Label coffee and tea business is private in more ways than one. Getting people to talk about the business they do in this arena is extremely difficult. The [...]

A century ago, after people had adjusted to writing '19' instead of '18' as the date prefix, and before the U.S. had gotten involved in the first World War, new [...]

As almost everyone in the coffee business has said, more than once, water is by far the biggest component of a cup of coffee -- so if it's not right, [...]

Mother Parkers is taking North America's coffee and tea industry by storm. Its handpicked team of professionals and state-of-the-art technology has millions of customers raising their cups in appreciation. 'We [...]

In their quest for organic tea cultivation, M.C. Muthanna and Dr. Kanc Han Sanyal of the Bom bay Burmah Trading Corp. Ltd. learned they also needed to mesh old philosophies [...]

Austria has never been a great tea drinking country, and the consumption of tea is fairly stable at approximately 160g per person per year. The beverage is mainly consumed for [...]

FOUR FOR ALL Pedestrians ambling along this quiet canal in the historic heart of The Hague have little reason to note the old house at number 50, just like so [...]

THE ENLIGHTENED TEA COMPANY Visit the picturesque town of Beaminster amidst the rolling hills of Dorset, England, and you will discover beautiful scenery and Culture and an enlightened tea company [...]

Yorkshire tea and coffee company, Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms, celebrates its 80th birthday this year. Jane Pettigrew tells the story, from the opening of the first Bettys in Harrogate to [...]

The year 1999 is a very special one for the Goomtee Tea Estate. This year, its celebrates 100 years of production of exceptional teas. Ashok Kumar, managing director of Marco [...]

Darjeeling's Ambootia Tea Estate is producing high quality organic tea. Shashank Goel explains why and how. 'This coming century will be one of correction, says Sanjay Bansal of the Ambootia[TM] [...]

As flavored teas become more and more popular, Katja Pottschmidt explains the expertise and importance of Melchers Aromen in Germany in the field of flavorings It is all a matter [...]

Martin Emslie, general manager of W.R. Carpenter Estates, details his company's operation in the Western Highlands of this magnificent Pacific island. Apparently, some time in the very early 1900s, some [...]

Martin Emslie, general manager of W.R. Carpenter Estates, details his company's operation in the Western Highlands of this magnificent Pacific island. Apparently, some time in the very early 1900s, some [...]

D.J. Miles is a famous name in England's southwestern counties. Tea International explores how this small family company has captured the market with its blended and specialty teas. Drop into [...]

Duncan Brothers (Bangladesh) Ltd., an associate of Lawrie Group Plc., is a well-known name in Bangladesh. Jane Pettigrew reports on the company's activities and recent developments. Walter Duncan, a Scotsman, [...]

By surrounding herself with experts, can novice founder Heather Howitt hook coffee fanatics on an obscure East Indian drink before the Starbucks of the world do? Executive Summary COMPANY: Oregon [...]

Part I Tea is truly special. Rituals observed in its preparation, the many hued elixirs extracted, the heady release of fragrant aromas, and the subtle difference in taste of the [...]

Chai simply means tea in many countries - in India, Russia, Turkey, as well as in countries in the Middle East and Africa. In many of these places, they use [...]

Would you believe that tea is in the U.S.? Sarah Fleming McLester tells the Charleston story. Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, United States of America - not a likely site for [...]

Until recent times, the business of coffee and tea could hardly have been considered 'new wave.' Industrial and retailing trends were largely the same as those established in the last [...]

Depending on your age, Celestial Seasonings means different things to many people. Teenagers that grew up in the 1960s remember the company's origins when co-founders Mo Siegel, along with Wyck [...]

the Shanghai Tea Import and Export Co., situated opposite the Bund near the famous Peace Hotel at the corner of Zhongshan and Nanjing Roads, comes under administrative control of the [...]

Jiangsu province in East China is one of the most economically and socially developed provinces in the country. It is divided into at least two distinct regions. North Jiangsu (Subei) [...]

Like the rest of the economy, which has been transformed at great speed from a sluggish command-style system to one where market forces and international competition play an increasingly greater [...]

When I told the trade I was visiting the Hediard store, I was teased that I had a cushy job and what a fabulous store it was. I had no [...]

Pepsi-Cola Co and Thomas J. Lipton Co jointly created Pepsi Lipton Tea Partnership in fall 1991. Lipton's Rick Kundrat and Pepsi's Sheldon Roesch, two Tea Partnership executives, agree that both firms are committed to the venture. Before the Tea Partnership's creation, Lipton's ready-to-drink teas were primarily distributed by Coca-Cola bottlers, and Lipton had previously considered a partnership with Coca-Cola Co., The formation of the Pepsi Lipton Tea Partnership has wrought some very fundamental changes in the lives of its two top executives, Pepsi's Sheldon Roesch and Lipton's Rick Kundrat. 'After [...]

Nobody can fault the Government's argument that Sri Lanka has learned a bitter lesson after two decades of state management of plantations. Enterprise and motivation have been totally lacking. While [...]

Julius Meinl--A company which has gone through two world wars, its assets stolen, was still able to build itself back as a major roaster for Austria. Now e company is [...]

This major research study, the first of its kind, had provided a detailed insight into the caterers attitudes to tea, confirming that our national drink is an enormous business in [...]

Ingredients: lemon grass, ginger root, rose hips, dates, cinnamon, chamomile flowers, orange rind, spearmint leaves. A recipe for some exotic culinary fantasy? No - just common ingredients that go into [...]

Fujian: The south-east coastal province of Fujian enjoys a warm and moist climate, and it has red-yellow soils on hills and mountains suitable for growing teas. Tea was first planted [...]

Trygve Klingenberg is the man in charge at Solberg & Hansen. Not much doubt about that. Klingenberg, in fact, looks like the kind of fellow who'd be in charge of [...]

Canada embarks on massive generic tea advertising campaign Canada is one of the world's leading tea consuming countries. Net imports totaled 14,181 tons in 1989 resulting in an apparent consumption [...]

The Wollenhaupt Tea Company located in Reinbek, Germany has overcome hurdles for over 100 years with long standing company growth and vision. There have been many difficulties since the company [...]

Walk into a dell for a quick meal or take-out and as you reach the cash register, you may pass an attractive display of Ready-To-Drink (RTD) tea. The colorful vending [...]

You've known people who have done it for years. They hire a brother or sister to work for them and, because they're family, pay them more in salary or benefits [...]

While at the recent Tea and Coffee World Cup in Amsterdam, Jane Pettigrew met Nemira Liaugaudaite and Gracijus Ivanauskas of the Lithuanian Acorus Calamus tea company. She talked to them [...]

Is it the name? The packaging? The image? A sense of social responsibility? The use of organic ingredients? Or simply the taste of Honest Tea's product that appeals to the [...]

What if you took one entity with all kinds of resources, equities and knowledge and teamed it with another entity packing similar, maybe even complementary, assets? You'd probably wind up [...]