Industry Roundtable: Beyond the Bay

This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

WTN: Do you see any macro trends with the tea industry and the economy?This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

Yu: The macro trend I see is global. I just came back from Asia, and a couple of things are going on there. The cost of tea has gone up tremendously because of higher labor costs, but also because a higher standard of living has increased local demand for quality teas. It makes it much more difficult to buy these teas, especially since the dollar has declined. Meanwhile, Americans are tightening their belts and not buying as much. It’s kind of a double whammy.This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

Fong: That’s definitely true, but it has happened before, and it will probably happen again. I can sell Dragonwell for more in China than I could ever sell it for here. Whatever the price is, there’s somebody willing to pay it. You don’t see that here. This is why you have to be long-term partners with the people who produce the tea for you. Sometimes you make more. Sometimes they make more.This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

Portman: It’s costing us more to access high quality teas in India, Sri Lanka and China, but it is such a relatively inexpensive product that we haven’t had much trouble. It’s more that the dollar has gone down, not that we can’t get what we want.This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

Fong: Last year, you couldn’t buy green puer, and now you can’t give it away. I’m buying more puer than I ever did now. Economic situations come and go. All the pressure will just force everybody to do a better job. This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

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