Author Archives: Xavier
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Is bigger better?
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If you ask this about blogging, the answer is obviously no. You want an example? I have several files, articles and so on about Teavana IPO, finances and such (this is the nice part when a company goes public) but I have tried to analyse …
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Of competitive intelligence, letters and tea
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We live really interesting times. Thanks to the Internet I can chat with people from all over the world about tea or any other topic I might be interested in. I can also find a lot of surprises while looking for other things (which is …
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For one hour, I thought I was Johnny Depp
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Hamburg is a charming and quite busy city in Northern Germany and according to many sources, one of the biggest tea ports in Europe. I went there for the weekend and after reading carefully Lahikmajoe’s post, we decided with my friend to go to the …
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Transformed in Germany, a new paradigm for German tea?
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I had a few discussions and mail exchanges with @Lahikmajoe about the German tea culture and its importance mostly in Northern Germany. According to him, one of the reasons behind it is that this area is the hinterland of the port of Hamburg. This was …
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Middlemen surround us and for once, we should forget the Alamo
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I was in holidays and during that time, I saw something I already knew but sometimes you rediscover things you already knew: in hotels, camping places, bars, coffeehouses… you don’t have loose leaf teas but only the “not so good” old tea bags (from several …
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Is forecast on the French tea market like the weather forecast?
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Is forecast on the French tea market like the weather forecast? I found a summary of a study on the tea and coffee market in France in 2011. It was made by a company that specializes in market analysis and has been doing this for …
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What’s in a name? … Price
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Inspiration can come to you all of a sudden. I had already talked with lahikmajoe about prices and tea and when we met in the 1st ITTC, he told me a story about two identical teas that had a huge difference in price, all depending …
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Of tea and strategy
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The Republic of Tea by Mel & Patricia Ziegler and Bill Rosenzweig And no, this is neither a post on whether or not Sun Tzu, Clausewitz or any other general or theorist ever drank tea nor a real review of The Republic of Tea book. …
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A lot of data but no definitive answers
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All the data used in this article were found in the 2010 Tea Barometer of the Tropical Commodity Coalition for sustainable Tea, Coffee, Cocoa and are stated as being 2008 data. The most obvious information is that there is a split in the producing countries …
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An interview with Kusmi
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[I rewrote this interview on a French radio of Sylvain Orebi, owner of Kusmi Tea and Løv organic as if it was made for a newspaper. Here are the original transcriptions: Kusmi Tea – BFM Radio – French and Kusmi Tea – BFM Radio – English – …