38 STiR coffee and tea / Issue 2, 2022 (April / May)
Coffee Planet appoints Jamie
Brown as business development
director.
Coffee Planet is a leading Middle
East roaster/retailer and Jamie Brown was sales
director at Lavazza in the UK. For more info,
visit https://coffeeplanet.com.
Julius Meinl
Nestle invests US$675 million in a factory in Glendale,
Arizona outside Phoenix to produce creamers which will open in 2024. The
group has now invested $3billion in the last two years in the US market. For
more information, see https://www.nestleusa.com/media/pressreleases.
What are the latest trends and
issues in the tea industry,
and how is the tea industry innovating as it
looks to the future? Download the "World Tea
White Paper on Tea Trends, Issues, Innovation
at at https://www.worldteanews.com/
issues-trends.
Now there's a "voice" for the
global coffee shop industry?
Uk-based Global Coffee Institute, supported by
World Coffee Portal and featuring members
such as Cimbali, JDE, Costa Coffee, Everysys,
et al. launched in early March. For more
information, https://globalcoffeeinstitute.com
Julius Meinl expands
its USA operations by
acquiring three
Florida roasters.
The Austria-based, premium
coffee brand, is one of the old-
est coffee roasters in the world,
plans to double its net US sales
by 2025. For more information,
see www.juliusmeinl.com.
Naikela Botanicals tea sticks
offer pure water-soluble
nutrition.
The tea power brand's strict standards
creates beverages to tap into easily
accessible, high quality nutrition. For
more information visit https://naikela.com.
Meet the medieval "influencer"
who convinced the world to
drink tea; not eat it.
It seems eating tea by chewing and
making soups was way tea was
consumed, that is until the Lu Yu, the
so-called "Tea God" started the
tea-drinking trend which persists today.
For the story in Atlas Obscura, visit
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/
eating-tea
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