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Fifty years ago, three industrious Turkish brothers in Havza, near Türkiye’s tea-growing region along the Black Sea, fabricated a modern chromium steel version of the traditional samovar. These storied vessels, fired by wood or coal, brew tea while keeping large volumes of hot water on tap.

The Sözen brothers were skilled copper, bronze, aluminum, and steel metalworkers. Their compact, easily disassembled design for Sözenler Semavers (the Turkish word for tea-urn) is now the nation’s most popular brand.

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PLUS | Samovar Tea at Sunset

Fifty years ago, three industrious Turkish brothers in Havza, near Türkiye’s tea-growing region along the Black Sea, fabricated a modern chromium steel version of the traditional samovar. These storied vessels, fired by wood or coal, brew tea while keeping large volumes of hot water on tap.

The Sözen brothers were skilled copper, bronze, aluminum, and steel metalworkers. Their compact, easily disassembled design for Sözenler Semavers (the Turkish word for tea-urn) is now the nation’s most popular brand.

Listen to their story later in this podcast.

A newly published report by Circana finds that 78% of consumers actively practice self-care to enjoy optimal physical, mental, and social balance. Instead of expensive doctor visits and pharmaceutical remedies, they seek to prevent illness and relieve stress by consuming healthy foods and beverages, including tea. According to the American Psychological Association, nearly eight in 10 psychologists have reported seeing an increase in the number of patients with anxiety disorders since the beginning of the pandemic. Awareness of tea’s ability to relax and relieve anxiety and stress is growing, which is evident in functional formulations pairing tea with herbs.

Sally Lyons Wyatt, the chief advisor for consumer goods and food service insights at Circana, joins Tea Biz to discuss new findings on self-care in a report that identified more than 55 ways consumers activate their well-being. The data-rich, free-to-download 15-page report shows how tea companies can support consumers' wellness journeys.

BIO: Sally is the Global Executive Vice President and Chief Advisor for Consumer Goods and Foodservice Insights at Circana, a leading advisor on the complexity of consumer behavior. Her skills include analyzing big data to develop consumer and shopper insights and consumer relationship management.

She graduated from the University of Alabama and began her career at SmithKline Consumer Products. She joined AC Nielsen in 1991 and worked as a top-level executive for more than 20 years at IRI and Symphony IRI Group, joining the company as a senior vice president in January 2001. She was twice named to the Top Women in Grocery list and is the executive sponsor of Circana’s Early Career Professionals Business Resource Group.

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A newly published report by Circana finds that 78% of consumers actively practice self-care to enjoy optimal physical, mental, and social balance. Instead of expensive doctor visits and pharmaceutical remedies, they seek to prevent illness and relieve stress by consuming healthy foods and beverages, including tea. According to the American Psychological Association, nearly eight in 10 psychologists have reported seeing an increase in the number of patients with anxiety disorders since the beginning of the pandemic. Awareness of tea’s ability to relax and relieve anxiety and stress is growing, which is evident in functional formulations pairing tea with herbs.

Sally Lyons Wyatt, the chief advisor for consumer goods and food service insights at Circana, joins Tea Biz to discuss new findings on self-care in a report that identified more than 55 ways consumers activate their well-being. The data-rich, free-to-download 15-page report shows how tea companies can support consumers' wellness journeys.

Prof. Christine Folch is one of the world’s authorities on the history of beverages. A delightful storyteller, anthropologist, and historian, she recently penned The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History, released this week by Princeton University Press.

“Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea,” Christine tells Tea Biz correspondent Jessica Natale Woollard in a wide-ranging and engaging conversation about the world’s third-most popular naturally stimulating beverage.

BIO: Christine Folch is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina. Yerba mate is the most well-known of the three ilex beverages, and as you're going to hear from Christine, it did become widely popular, just not everywhere. In a previous conversation on Tea Biz, she traced the history of yaupon and guayusa—two native stimulants that never managed to compete on the world stage with coffee and tea during those first few centuries of Colonial America. In Argentina, southern "gaúcho" Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mate is the stimulating brew of choice, famously quaffed by the Argentine national football team en route to its 2022 FIFA World Cup victory.