2021 Beverage Industry Trends
Sian Edwards, Group Insights Manager at Finlays takes a look at the key 2021 beverage trends
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The Journey of Tea from Bush to Cup
With 150 years’ heritage, Finlays is one of the worlds leading growers of tea, with extensive farms in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Argentina and a new processing facility in China.
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Espresso Mar-tea-ni
From espresso martinis to earl grey negronis, the use of tea and coffee in cocktails is more prevalent than ever.
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2030 vision
In 2020, the world of beverages is changing faster than ever. That can make it hard to know whether each innovation is the real deal or just a flash in the pan.
Cool Beans: Is The Cold Brew Coffee Industry About to Have its Global Moment?
It’s been a busy year in the Americas. In late 2019, Finlays finalised the acquisition of aspen beverage group, and quickly moved to combine it with Finlay Extracts and Ingredients USA into one commercial Business unit – Finlays Americas – with Charley Snell at the helm.
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VIDEO: Unleash The Potential of Chinese Tea With James Finlay Guizhou
China is the world’s biggest producer of tea, where 45% of the world’s tea is grown. This is almost double the volume of the next biggest producing country.
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The Art and Science of Flavour
At Finlays, helping our customers create products with exceptional flavour is our raison d’être. But what exactly do we mean by the concept of “flavour”?
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Stronger on Purpose
Thanks to the combined efforts of David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg (among others), sustainability has gone from being a fringe issue in society to being one of the dominant global issues of our time. The stakes are just as high for business also.
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Good Mood Foods
Good mood foods are set to be one of the trends of the next decade. “Better for you” is giving way to “better for me” as consumers look for options that feed mental wellbeing and personal satisfaction in addition to physical health.
How Chinese teaware helped make tea a British icon
Despite originating in China, porcelain teaware remains inextricably entwined with British culture. Colin Sheaf, Chairman of the Sir Percival David foundation of Chinese art, and deputy Chairman at Bonhams auction house, is a world-renowned expert in Asian art, including teaware.
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A Neon Bright Future for Cold Brew Coffee in Europe
Finlays might be mostly famous as a tea business, but in fact we have over a century of experience in roasting, grinding, extracting and packing coffee.
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Tea-volution: A History of Tea Production at Finlays
Duncan Gilmour explains how Finlays became a key player in response to the ever-increasing demand for tea. Taking Tea Global Finlays’ early involvement with China tea appears to have ended by the time of Kirkman Finlay’s death in 1842. As the son of the eponymous founder, Kirkman had been instrumental in breaking the monopoly of
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Made in China – Finlay’s Tea Sourcing from China
We investigate how Finlays’ connection with humanity through natural beverages goes deeper than you might first imagine. Quietly, and increasingly at speed, a revolution is taking place in the supply of Chinese tea. China has now started to export quantities of qualified tea that previously had not been thought possible. This transformation is being helped
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Boston Tea Party
Tea has become increasingly important to the craft beer industry, in many surprising ways. We profile Finlays’ relationship with the Boston beer company. In the first of a series of articles looking at some of Finlays’ customers, we profile the Boston Beer Company. Tea has become increasingly important to this pioneering craft beer business which
Casa Fuentes joins the Finlays Family
Casa Fuentes is the largest tea farm company in Argentina with an annual production capacity of twenty-seven million kgs of Black Tea per annum, based in the Province of Misiones. With over fifty years experience, Casa Fuentes has been a pioneer in the export of black tea to the North American market and a key
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Finlays boosts investment in Damin to 40%
Finlays has acquired an additional 20% equity stake in Damin Foodstuff (Zhangzhou) Co., Ltd. (“Damin”) increasing its shareholding to 40%. Damin is the world’s largest manufacturer of tea extract with a majority market share in China and a growing global sales partnership with Finlays. Finlays Managing Director at the time, Ron Mathison, said: “This investment
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Biogas Brilliance
For many years we have been looking at the most sustainable ways of handling flowers, tea and septic tank waste for the benefit of the business and of the environment. Denis Kibet Cheruiyot, Engineering Management Trainee and Paul Kimutai, Research Manager at James Finlay Kenya, talk about the benefits of this pioneering step towards a
Ethical Membership
If there has been one constant during the 250 years that Finlays has been in existence, it is the characteristic of our culture that probably best defines Finlays approach to business and is a major contributor to our long term sustainability as a company. This characteristic is high ethical standards. It is a consistent thread
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Finlays Tea – Not Just a Cup of Tea
The last few years have seen a shift in the mature western tea markets away from mainstream black tea bags to more exciting and varied speciality teas and herbal infusions. Finlays has positioned itself well with the acquisition of the London Tea Company brand, but in what other ways are we able to tap into
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An update on Tea2030
In many ways tea is and can be seen as a ‘hero’ crop. Yet as an industry we often devalue tea, pushing lower qualities, promoting packaging and reacting to social issues. If we want to fulfil the concept of tea as a hero crop then we need to start proactively tackling some of these systemic
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