Hot Mix
Plantation companies are keen to push through a long over due productivity pegged wage formula when estate worker wages come up for negotiations in June 2004. …
Agriculture
Value Driven
Value added tea exports hit a five year high, moving up to 41 percent of total shipments so far this year. The record is on account of 17.1 mn kgs of tea …
Green Tea
September Customs data indicates that US dollar value of tea exports was US$ 504.9 mn, up form the US$ 499.95 mn posted in 02. Commodity brokers credited the …
Study Buddy
The Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has asked Sri Lanka to join India or Kenya, if it plans to study the unique variances between tea growing …
Bush Tourism
The tea plantation industry has identified 20 estate bungalows as potential sites for boutique tourist retreats. Mooted in conjunction with the Sri Lanka …
Hot Teas
Ceylon Tea Services is calling on the government to support a common brand name for the tea trade, through a package of incentives similar to the early 1980s …
Hot Cuppa
Plantation companies are feeling the pinch in profits due to restricted cash flows and high input costs, leaving little to plough back into replanting and …
Fresh Cuppa
The ultimate goal of being a leading international brand has brought a new entrant to the local tea marketing fraternity – J V Gokal Ceylon, the …
Top Brews
A high powered Sri Lankan team will lobby Russian authorities for more favourable tariffs for local value added tea exports. The team headed by Minister of …
Warm Cup
Despite torrential rains and heavy flooding on some estates, tea crop intakes in April have reached record levels at 29.38 mn kilos. This is 7.8 percent up on …
One Taste
Ceylon tea just got better. An industry long built on a tradition of quality, will have its official stamp of approval, when quality standards for made tea are …
Changing Gears
The brands owner Watawala Plantations Ltd., the biggest exporter of Ceylon Tea to Malaysia, has held detailed discussions with Sri Lankas High Commissioner …
Warming Up
Average prices for tea at the Colombo auctions dropped to Rs. 145.02 by April from an average of Rs. 156.82 in 2002. Low grown prices lead the drop, affected …
At The Bourse
The Colombo bourse reacted positively to deals in the insurance market and increasing tourist arrivals over the last week. Shares in Commercial Bank and DFCC …
Ele House Brew
Brewing through the synergies of John Keells and Elephant House is a ready to drink tea product that could hit the local market in end 2003. Tested and …
Boiling Cup
The banking sector is willing to prop up the tea industry by lending up to Rs. 1.25 billion to buy teas unsold at weekly auctions. The bail out plan was put …
Sweet Teas
Buyers set aside developments in the Middle East to step up buying at Tuesdays low grown tea auctions, pushing up prices in the process. Brokers said that …
Bad Weather
This weeks low grown auction average could slip below Rs. 130, down from Rs. 147.46 for February. Brokers say that buyers stepped up orders marginally at the …
Cold Cuppa
The tea industry continued its ill fate with indications that around 25% to 30% of all teas brought to the weekly auctions in Colombo would remain unsold. …
New Bud
A strategy to expand its investment options will see Amana Investments venturing into the tea brokering business shortly. Amana will hold a 55 per cent stake …