Management Case
Table of contents.
With the aid of statistics and practical examples, provide a current account of the structure and operation of the global tea market with reference to the following variables:
The production, consumption and exporting of tea
The influence of individual growers on the price of tea
The role of transnational corporations in the tea market.
Introduction
This assignment focuses or examines the following:
Firstly, it focuses on the demand, supply of tea and how it is transferred from one country to another.
Secondly, it examines the effects or power a person planting tea has in the price of tea.
Finally, the part multinational companies play in many other countries.
World producers of tea.
Countries
Production 2008
World total
%change
China
1,257,384 metric tonnes
32.36%
+46.99%
India
805,180 metric tonnes
20.72%
+257.122%
Kenya
345,800 metric tonnes
8.90%
-8.294%
Sri Lanka
318,470 metric tonnes
8.19%
+6.531%
Turkey
198,046 metric tonnes
5.09%
+3.369%
The table above shows the producers of tea in metric tonnes.
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