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Tea is one of the truly global supply chains, laden with cross border complexities, regulations and time constraints. The World Tea Forum provides an excellent opportunity to see colleagues from across the globe in a venue that allows for the sharing of knowledge and experiences as well as enabling the global tea community to address common concerns, issues and leverage opportunities for growth.

I strongly encourage ANYONE who touches tea in some way to join us and help to influence the future of tea.


-Peter F. Goggi
 President, Royal Estates Tea Company
 Dir. Supply Management Tea & Commodities - Unilever North America - Foods


Attending the World Tea Forum guarantees numerous benefits including the opportunity to meet with players from other markets or segments of the tea industry in order to exchange ideas and information on current issues. The event also brings together industry leaders from at least 4 different continents in an effort to unify the voice of the world tea industry to the “outside world” (media, authorities, etc.).

-Karl-Heinz (Kalle) Grieger
 Vice-President, Hälssen & Lyon GmbH - Germany


The World Tea Forum provides an excellent opportunity to members of the tea industry to interact and exchange ideas on processing, marketing and supply side constraints and to make suggestions on how to address these issues. The Forum also affords an opportunity to producer countries in particular to learn and appreciate current developments in the U.S.A. Tea Market.

-Stephen Nkanata
 Managing Director, Tea Board of Kenya


The World Tea Forum provides a chance to get together with long time friends, associates and colleagues, as well as the opportunity to meet with new and often critical tea people from around the world. It is a perfect place to enable the global tea community to address concerns and opportunities for the future of our industry.

Anybody, whose life is involved in tea in any capacity, would be missing out by not attending this very special event.


-Lori Bigelow
 Co-President, R.C. Bigelow, Inc.