Tea

Tea in Mexico has maintained the image of being a natural and healthy product for years, and this was reinforced in recent years by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Euromonitor International’s Voice of the Industry: Food and Nutrition survey in…

The picture is much rosier for tea than coffee in 2023, with healthy volume and constant value growth expected. Within foodservice, volume growth is even healthier, reaching the double-digits, and boosted by increasing numbers of foreign tourists, as…

In 2023, retail volume sales of tea experienced steady growth, despite another year of strong retail price inflation. Turkey is a tea producing country with the highest per capita consumption of black tea in the world, and this has sustained…

Amid a highly inflationary climate, informing higher production and logistics costs, unit price growth propelled retail current value sales of tea in 2023. However, the residual economic fallout of COVID-19 and high inflation towards the end of the…

Guatemala continues to face high levels of inflation in 2023, driving up average retail prices in the tea category. Leading brands have activated sales with the help of discounts and promotional offers, as consumers are more cautious with expenditure…

Tea fares better than coffee in 2023, with a slight increase in volume sales. However, this is mainly due to it being a much less mature product. That being said, continuing rising prices is still hitting profit margins and constant value sales are…

Overall retail volume sales of tea in the Netherlands have continued to contract in 2023 due to a combination of rising prices, weakened purchasing power, increasing maturity and the fact that consumers are now spending less time at home with the…

Unilever Nigeria Plc maintains its stronghold in tea sales for 2023, primarily owing to its dominant share in black tea, the largest product area within tea. A household name, Lipton, has sustained its relevance through innovative strategies and…

The tea category did not experience the marked price increases seen in coffee. Instead, tea unit prices increased at a more modest pace, with the category poised to see prices fall in the coming years, in line with the consumer price index. Overall,…

Tea is not the only beverage facing supply chain challenges. However, when compared with some other beverages in the US, tea is relatively better off, as it has not been affected by harvest issues, like coffee, nor is it heavily reliant on aluminium…