Innovation is a category that includes all new products, typically branded and often unusual such as dissolving tea discs and tea concentrate in aerosol cans. Conventional teas are categorized under tea and functional and condition-specific teas are found under Health & Wellness. At origin, this is the catch-all for new machinery to process tea, tea harvesters and other mechanical advances.
Aarti Shah and Dan Bolton discuss challenges in the tea industry, focusing on innovation, oversupply, and regeneration. Shah highlighted the importance of systems thinking, collaboration, soil health, and modern technologies like gasification and biochar. They also discuss the need for government policies that promote tea and foster a strong consumer-driven business culture in Kenya.
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The Innovation Imperative: Where and How, not If In a time of change, the question is not whether to innovate, but how. For tea, it’s also urgent. There are challenges to business as usual everywhere: sustainable development, shifting consumer tastes and demographics, coffee competition, yields, costs, and quality, to name […]
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How would you describe the flavor of these ten teas? They are a representative selection from the many market innovations that are having at least initial success. They consistently get positive customer reviews, and favorable informative and non-hype press and industry coverage. Some of these surely will not maintain a […]
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Tea tech: robotics, computer vision, machine learning; Tea Sci: biogenetics, biomarkers; Soft $3: end-to-end logistics, sustainability, cost, productivity If you search online for “tea innovation news” most of the results will be about the surge of new products. These are creative and original. They are targeted to millennials, premiumization, […]
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