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 Issue 11
| East
India Tea Brews Up Merger with German
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LEBANON,
Pa.--East Indies Tea Co. here merged with German-based tea
importer and blender Florapharm GmbH effective Aug. 21.
Headquarters for Florapharm Tea USA is here. "It's a great
dovetailing of two companies," said Mim Enck, who serves as
president of the newly formed company. Groundwork for the
merger began brewing at the first World Tea Expo in 2003, the
tradeshow formerly known as Take Me 2 Tea Expo. The merger was
a natural fit for both.
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| O-Cha.com’s New Organic Matcha Green Tea – Smelling
Sweet (press release) |
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Named after the founder’s wife; O-Cha.com recently
introduced its first line of private label organic matcha,
brand named “Kaoru.” Founder and President Kevin Moore named
the new matcha after his Japanese wife’s first name, which
aptly means “Fragrant” in Japanese. “I got lucky on that one,”
Mr. Moore said when describing how he came up with a name for
his company’s latest product, “it works well in both
languages.” O-Cha.com, one of the first e-commerce sites on
the internet to ship connoisseur grade Japanese green teas
directly to the end consumer, introduced the powdered green
tea known for its high levels of antioxidants in March of this
year.
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| Choice
Organic Teas Celebrates 15th Anniversary |
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Seattle, WA August 2, 2004 – America’s first
exclusively organic tea line, Choice Organic Teas,
commemorates 15 years of creating exceptional tasting teas and
satisfying consumer demand while strengthening sustainable
agricultural practices. Summer of 2004 marks the anniversary
of Choice Organic Teas’ 1989 debut that brought awareness of
organic tea into the marketplace and questioned the quality of
existing natural tea and its use of conventional agricultural
chemicals. The initial three products from organic Japanese
tea gardens has grown into over 70 offerings of Black, Green,
Oolong, White teas, and Herbal Infusions available in tea bags
and loose leaf, which pioneered organic tea sourcing
worldwide.
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| Competition Dampens Tea Exports |
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Kochi: Severe competition in the world market from the tea
powers such as Kenya, Indonesia and Sri Lanka continues to
depress the Indian tea exports in recent years without showing
any signs of improvement. Celestial Seasonings introduces a
new line of Organic Teas with four unique and two traditional
flavors:
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| Measures
to Improve The Quality of Export Tea |
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Ha Noi (VNA) - Businesses applying for licenses in tea
production should be required to show standard certificates of
their equipment, workshops, industrial hygiene, and tea
growing areas large enough to supply at least 70 percent of
their production capacity. These compulsory conditions for tea
businesses are one of many measures proposed by the Viet Nam
Tea Association to improve Vietnamese tea products at a
conference held in Ha Noi on Sept. 5 to develop the tea
industry.
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| Saint
Francis Memorial Hospital in Search of Historic Tea
Set |
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Missing for More Than 40 Years, Sterling Silver Tea Service
Was Used by Nursing School for High Tea and Etiquette Training
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Once a month for
more than fifty years, the young ladies of Saint Francis
Memorial Hospital's Nursing School would gather together for
high tea and an etiquette lesson as part of their studies. The
foundation of this monthly Saint Francis ritual was a dazzling
six-piece sterling silver tea and coffee service handcrafted
by Shreve & Co. in the early 20th century.
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| Tea
Research to Tackle Drought |
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Sudipta Chanda in Siliguri Aug 29. — The Tea Research
Association could be on track to solve one of tea industry’s
most serious problems faced particularly by the plantations in
the Dooars and Terai regions. According to TRA authorities,a
research is underway to produce drought-resistant tea clones.
If successful, the findings would revolutionise the tea
industry.
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| No. 1
Teapot in China Shows Up |
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BEIJING, Sept. 2 -- The 2nd International Tea Culture and
Tourism Festival opened on the Mengding Mountain, Ya'an,
Sichuan. Pictured, the giant tea pot located in Mengding
Mountain, the sacred mountain of global tea culture. This tea
pot is 13 meters in diameter and its spout is three meters in
length and eight meters in height. The matching teacup is four
meters in diameter and the fall of the water overflowing from
the tea pot amounts to 50 meters. That is why it is known as
the "No. 1 tea pot in China."
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| UPASI to
Organise Tea Quality Competition |
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Coimbatore, Sept 8: Seeking to unfold hidden vistas of
quality characteristics of South Indian Tea industry, the
United Planters Association of Southern India (UPASI) is
organising a Tea quality competition "Golden Leaf India Awards
2005". Addressing a press conference here today, N Dharmaraj,
Convenor of the Awards Committee, said that the competition
would showcase various agro climatic origins of the South
Indian teas, each with distinctive quality attributes.
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| Organic
Tea-Healthier Option to Tea Grown with
Chemicals |
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Reviving the Vedic method of cultivating tea, the planters
of the 'elixir of life' in the North East Region are
experimenting with growing organic tea to give a healthier
option to the drinker free from pesticides. In a bid to give
alternative to the tea drinker in place of the conventional
one grown with chemicals, tea planters from Assam have set up
estates to exclusively grow organic tea as per the ancient
scriptures and also to create a pollution-free environment.
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| The
Republic of Tea Announces Limited Edition 2005 Holiday
Collection |
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NOVATO, CALIF., (September 7, 2005) – Brewed on chilly fall
days, given or received as a gift, served among friends at
festive gatherings, or prepared at home in the relaxed company
of family, The Republic of Tea’s limited edition 2005 Holiday
Collection of premium teas and herbs, stir the spirit
throughout the holiday season.
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| BOILING
POINT: Tea with Your Meal —and in Your
Meal |
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We were in Toronto, a wonderful ethnic-food town, eating
stir-fry at an Asian, stand-up lunch counter. What is that
smoky flavoring in the pork char su? It took some begging and
language manipulation, but I got it out of the chef. The
answer was tea, pure and simple, a smoked Lapsang Souchong
variety. This sounds odd to us. Tea is a beverage, not an
herb. Not so in China. They apply a heady portion of their tea
leaves as an all-purpose flavoring, as we would with our basil
and oregano. You need to try this if you’re into authentic
Chinese cooking. You can take it further to add new flavors to
American dishes.
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