A new generation is driving change in a tea category where for decades price has meant more than taste or goodness. The trend they are forcing is about taste and wellness but so much more. As younger customers turn to tea, they are demanding a more sincere appreciation of ethics and sustainability. This offers a glimmer of hope for passionate tea growers who make tea for the love of the leaf.
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All About TeaDilmahHealthMerrill J. FernandoTeaTea & HealthTea IndustryTea InspiredThe new norm
Good tea for good health – one more reason to brew a cuppa
A growing body of scientific evidence points to the human health benefits in tea. Yet tea growers who value quality suffer the consequences of discounting that drives them to compete with cheap, blends that are popular for the ability it gives brands to discount and lure consumers through price. That is harmful to an industry struggling to overcome an exploitative, colonial history and evolve into a sustainable, climate adapted, socially responsible tea industry.
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Everything in life is about perspective. That’s to be expected, because what we believe is conditioned by what we know and that is naturally, our point of view. That makes…
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All About TeaNature and the EnvironmentSustainabilityTea IndustryThe new norm
The other side of the coin – price, value & livelihoods as building blocks for a new normal
Amidst the chaos and cost of COVID are looming climate and social challenges. A focus on cheap as a means of restarting retail post COVID has the potential to create greater dislocation than COVID itself.
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Business as a Matter of Human ServiceBusinessworthyDilmah ConservationEnvironmentEthicsMerrill J. FernandoMerrill J. Fernando Charitable Foundation
Photographer Yuriko Nakao’s perspective on Significance
In March last year, an accomplished and empathetic photographer, Yuriko Nakao visited Sri Lanka and the Merrill J. Fernando Foundation’s Western Centre on the outskirts of Colombo. Making pictures at…
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The achievement of business men and women is universally measured in profit. My brother and I are singularly fortunate that the family business we joined three decades ago, was fundamentally…
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Beyond the pumas that have emerged in Santiago and the peacocks in Mumbai, the impact of coronavirus on humankind has been devastating – 1.2 million people infected worldwide, and nearly…
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On 1st September we inaugurated the MJF Centre East, the most ambitious combined humanitarian and environmental project that we have ever undertaken. Amongst the projects that the MJF Foundation, and…
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Business as a Matter of Human ServiceBusinessworthyDilmahEnvironmentEthicsFacts of Tea
Three things to ponder on the 150th Anniversary of the World’s Finest Tea
The Colombo International Tea Convention 2017 concluded on Friday, elegantly supported by our most accomplished cricketer and commended by several of the international delegates as the most significant gathering of…
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Business as a Matter of Human ServiceBusinessworthy
The story of a Bocuse d’Or Sri Lanka Gold Medallist – from unemployed to culinary role model in 8 months
very individual has inherent ability regardless of their circumstances; poverty is debilitating, but not disabling, physical disability in most cases is ability in an untypical form. When the unemployed son…