Industry | Teaconomics

What’s in a name? … Price

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 …

Of tea and strategy

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. …

A lot of data but no definitive answers

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 …

An interview with Kusmi

[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 – …

Dubai Tea Trading Centre

I just read something incredible, even if it isn’t really new: Dubai has opened in 2005 a Dubai Tea Trading Centre (DTTC). Check their website and you will see, it is not a crazy idea I had in my head.. To help you understand it, …

I know that after reading the title, I already lost half of my readers and that the other half will probably think that I am either sold to those you should not speak about or that I am totally crazy/out of my mind… …

The classical economics (Part I)

According to classical economics, prices are the result of the interaction between the quantities of a good supplied by the producers and those demanded by customers. However for tea, the process is a little different as it involves auctions. But in spite of this, I …

Teaconomics

The Economy of Tea

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