The 14th Tea & Coffee World Cup Exhibition & Symposium, Europe’s largest and most comprehensive event for the coffee and tea businesses, will be held April 25-27, 2010, at the Reed Messe Wien in Vienna, Austria. Co-sponsored by global journals Tea & Coffee Trade Journal and Tea & Coffee Asia, the exhibition will be the one-stop networking and buying event for tea and coffee professionals worldwide.

Tea & Coffee World Cup Europe and Alles fûr den Gast-Wien will take place simultaneously in adjacent halls at the Reed Messe, April 25-27, 2010. The two leading trade fairs in their fields, serving the same industries but in different sectors, will complement each other and add value to both exhibitor’s and visitor’s experiences.

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Our favorite green tea, the Woodlands Estate Green tea from the Nilgiri Hills Green Tea is on sale from now until November 26th. This nice tea is an Organic Second Flush Tea grown at a high elevation of 6100 feet in the blue mountains of South India.

Both 100mg packs and bulk 1lb bags are on sale at 25% off

Upon from the high elevations of Nilgiri Hills comes this delicious green tea, raw in its power, yet smooth as it can be! This tea is certified organic green tea and the longish withered leaf turns in to bright green upon steeping. It produces a light green liquor upon a steep time of 1-1.5 minutes. Recommend upto three steeps out of one tea spoon, with subsequent steep times increasing by 30 seconds each.

The pictures below will tell you just how enticing this tea is!

Grade: Superfine
Season: Second flush
Leaf: Longish black
Liquor: Bright pale yellow
Infusion: Bright green

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Net weight: 100 gms (3.5 oz)
Typically one 100 gm pack can make up to 100 cups of tea, with each cup costing less than 9 cents. With this sale, your per cup price drops to less than 7 cents! Now that is some savings!

If you get a chance, please visit Premium Steap, 118 S. 18th St., Philadelphia. Tel: 215-568-2920. Read more here

I wonder how much of this is due to recession, and how much due to change in habits

Canned and bottled tea, the largest component in RTD, slowed from growth rates exceeding 20% in both 2006 and 2007 to less than 1% growth this year, Packaged Facts estimates. Meanwhile, sales of bags and loose tea, which had been in decline for two years, are projected to show 3% growth this year.

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