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By bettsey WITTEMANNFEB.
2001 David C.
Bigelow remembered that one night in late 1940s, he and his father were sitting in the kitchen of brownstone, New York City.
He is watching his father as Ruth C.
A seasoned tea from Bigelow, followed by a new one on the market.
\"Don\'t tell your mother about it, but I don\'t think this tea will go anywhere . \"
Bigelow recalled what his father had told him.
Tea is the flagship brand of R and is constantly being reviewed. C. Bigelow Inc.
One of China\'s two largest specialty tea companies.
This is a company cultivated in Norwalk, and now in Fairfield, not far from Shelton, who does business at the American telly company.
Windsor is home to Redco Foods, which produces Salada Tea and rose tea.
If Thomas J.
Lipton, the country\'s largest tea company, is located about 30 miles northeast, not the Englewood Cliff. J.
In Connecticut, people may know as much about tea as they do about insurance.
Oh, the paper of the tea bag was also invented here.
\"For a small state, Connecticut holds a large position in the tea industry,\" said Joseph Sinny, president of the Manhattan Tea Association.
\"I think it goes back to the origin of American tea.
Tea starts in New York
The New Jersey area and Connecticut state offer an attractive opportunity to leave the city and stay in touch with the industry.
The metropolitan area is still the most important tea producing area in the country.
\"Advertising while the industry is not a big employer in the state, with a total of about 300 workers, the tea business, including shops and small companies, is spread across the state.
Connecticut is home not only to some of the largest producers, but also to its publisher, tea magazine, which hosts tea seminars for industry leaders, in Scotland town.
Haney & Sons is located in Salisbury and simpswell, another professional company, is located in Brookfield.
Advertising each of them is trying to open up their place in a steadily expanding tea market.
In the United States, tea sales have more than doubled over the past 10 years to $4. 6 billion. A. C.
Nielsen said it measured and analyzed sales and behavior data.
Tea sales in the state last year were 8 million, up about 9% from 1998.
Of course, the United States is still a big coffee country.
Per capita consumption in the United States is 693, while consumption of tea is 154.
According to the professional tea registration of the Tea Association, Irish people drink 1,415 tea, 1,146 in the UK and 914 in Turkey.
But of the 50 billion teas a year in the United States, the Northeast, including Connecticut, accounts for 33% of hot tea consumption. (
This does not include iced tea, which accounts for about 85% of U. S. consumption. the United States is the only country in the world that drinks more iced tea than hot tea.
Thanks to Dexter, Connecticut will always have a place in tea history, and Dexter is one of the oldest companies in the country.
In the 1930s S, a scientist at Dexter
The woven materials department came up with a way to make tea bag filter paper from abaca hemp, a plant that grows in the Philippines. (
Later, a German company, Teekanne, designed a machine that made paper into a tea bag).
Today, Dexter was recently acquired by a Finnish company in the division of Windsor Lock, saying it provides
The world\'s third-largest tea wrap paper.
Bigelow\'s market share is not high, but together with Celestial Seasonings, it has a market share of about 25% and is the largest specialty tea producer in the country.
Bigelow moved from Manhattan to Connecticut in 1950, and Ruth Campbell Bigelow added orange and spice flavors to tea in her kitchen in 1940s.
She began to offer this new mixture to friends in groups.
She was told that her friends were \"constantly commenting\" on this new tea flavor \".
Bigelow, who died in 1966, named tea review.
The family, who has a family in Wilton, bought a small plant in Norwalk to pack tea leaves. . David C.
Bigelow, 74, their son, now runs the family.
He owns the company with his wife Eunice and their adult daughter, Lori Bigelow, senior vice president of the tea department, and Cindy Bigelow, vice president for packaging and transportation.
They all live in Connecticut.
\"We have asked people to tell us that it is expensive to do business in Connecticut, but we have never heard of it . \"Bigelow said.
\"We have never noticed such a suggestion that the cost will be higher --
Operate effectively elsewhere.
This is our home.
We live here.
We like to work here. \'\'From a one-
Brand company, Bigelow in the mid-
In 1970s, a series of seasoning teas were packed in boxes of similar but different colors.
Its annual sales are now about $80 million.
The company created and tested all products at Fairfield, and Lori Bigelow said she spent at least an hour and a half a day tasting tea.
The Fairfield factory, built in 1990, also packs about one-
The third product is there.
BOISE, Idaho and Louis, Kentucky also have two other packaging plants.
In the past three years, Bigelow has taken tea from the past.
Norwalk\'s packaging factory enters its mailing location
Order a single business, a row of flavored honey stalls.
The company is still trying to season coffee.
Since 1981, Telley, based in Shelton, has also changed.
Recently, it has transformed tea from what was originally called \"original mixing\" to what is now called \"classic mixing \".
Robert Kraft, vice president of brand and trade marketing, said the new version was \"richer and stronger\" than the previous variety \".
According to tea experts, serious tea drinkers seem to prefer a stronger, more intense mix of tea.
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Despite its headquarters here, Tetley does not have a strong presence in the state.
It packs tea in Pennsylvania and Georgia, mixed in the UK.
It employs about 50 employees in Connecticut.
David Rigg said Redco, the manufacturer of red rose and Salada Tea, moved its headquarters from Massachusetts to Windsor in 1990 and is more focused on the northeast market, vice president of sales and market development.
These teas are packed in High Falls. Y.
On supermarket shelves, both red roses and Sarada tea are boxes of 48 or 100.
These are mixed black tea, which is usually considered to be your basic tea.
But for the past 20 years, the price of a box of 100 tea bags has been stable between $2 and $3,
Simrany of the Tea Association, the subtleties of consumer tea flavors are changing, including special offers.
Salada, an advertising company founded in Boston in 1892, has always been a top company.
Generations have sold brands in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Mr.
Rigg describes it as a \"lighter, gentler blur\" that is attractive to those who are not considered tea connoisseurs.
But Redco recently brought its first specialty tea, a dozen different varieties of green tea, to the market, under the Salada brand.
\"We believe that characteristic tea is a more important part of our business and the fastest growing part of the tea market . \"Rigg said.
Indeed, specialty tea (
Including seasoning, herbs and green tea)
The US tea market is expected to have a 15 to 20% share by 2005, up from 10% today. Mr.
Simrany wrote in a April 2000 report on industry growth, \"specialty tea will represent the fastest --
The tea industry grew in part over the next decade.
\"In 1983, John Haney of Salisbury, 70, and alumni of the Cornell University Hotel and Hotel program decided to start their own specialty tea industry.
He was the general manager and partner of the White Deer hotel in Salisbury when it was sold.
Mr. Stanley Mason of Salisbury was coached by him, a tea expert with a small portion of his own tea
Hani said he wanted to find a business that he could share with his family.
His sons Michael and Paul are actively involved.
\"We sell everything,\" he said . \"
Harney refers to the green tea, black tea and oolong tea sold by the company.
The company also sells tea at hotels and restaurants nationwide, including the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, the Kaiwei Hotel in Manchester and the new restaurants at Fox Woods Resort and Casino in Ledyard
Hani & Sons made a special tea for the Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel in New York and also sold it to consumers.
Hani has a tea.
Tasting rooms open to the public every day, as well as retail stores.
Located in a bluegrey barn-
Like the building on Salisbury Brook Street, this shop offers a wide range of tea accessories, including tea pots, cups, lemon condensed milk cans, a mixture of scones, special cookies, and napkins.
The company\'s packaging plant moved from Salisbury to Millington, New York. Y.
In last April, more space was needed on the Connecticut line.
The company also sells more than 150 varieties of loose tea from all over the world.
Loose tea accounts for only 2% of US tea purchases, but 25% of Hani\'s father and son business.
Jurgen Link, an advertising company at Norwalk, 39, founded SpecialTeas in 1995, selling only loose tea-
More than 300 different varieties.
Some have exotic names such as Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearl (
Looks more like pearls than tea)
Po Feng, Daji Ridge, Emperor Hong (
Chinese black tea). While Mr.
He said his company has seven employees, up 81% in the past year.
Most of the sales are delivered to consumers by mail order. .
Also in 1995, Jeff Piazza, 33, who graduated from Wesleyan University and received an English degree, founded a tea company called Steep in Glastonbury. He sells whole-
Tea leaves are placed in separate bags, each in a brown cardboard Matchbox.
The box is decorated with a mantra like \"looking is looking\" and \"looking is looking. \'\' Mr.
Tea in the square has crazy names like silly love, crayons Sun, hostel and sweet broken, Last Melon
The taste of black tea is aimed at a younger market than traditional black tea.
Some restaurants offer this tea, including Balthazar in New York City, and sell it directly to consumers on the website.
Brookfield\'s Simpson and well dates back to 1929, but only four years ago moved to Connecticut from pleasant, NY. Y.
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The President of this family.
On Saturday, Quarry business has a retail showroom on Quarry Road and tea tasting.
The company\'s catalogue has a children\'s page that provides Lilliputian tea sets for the children\'s tea party.
\"We did a survey in Connecticut because taxes are much lower than in New York . \"Harron said.
\"We found this beautiful place, including a former quarry.
It has five and a half acres and oneacre lake.
Two years after moving their packaging and offices to Connecticut, he said, he and his wife built their own living areas above the production building.
\"We have beautiful lake views in our living room and office. I have a 13-
He said: \"Take a step on the way to work . \"
\"No better.
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A version of this article was printed on page CN14 of the National edition on February 11, 2001 with the title: integration into the industry.