Inbrief

Tazo Tea, which supplies Starbucks in the UK, has become the latest member of the Ethical Tea Partnership, an alliance of tea-packing companies that works to monitor the conditions in which tea is produced. US-based Tazo’s entry brings the number of companies in the partnership to 18. Together the partners, which include Metropolitan Tea, Tetley Group, Twining and Unilever, manage more than 600 tea estates in seven countries.