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Article: Wake up & smell the coffee.
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- Economic Times (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2006
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Byline: Vikram Doctor
Jun. 4--The tea and coffee market is certainly hoping to benefit from the trend towards non-carbonated drinks
A few months back I noticed a strange new bottle in my neighbourhood kirana shop. It sat among the Coke and Pepsi litre bottles, but the liquid inside was a dusty brown. It was green tea with citrus flavour, imported from Hong Kong or Singapore.
I didn't buy it since I saw no point in paying Rs 175 plus for something I could brew up at home. But products like these, the flotsam of consumer culture that finds their way into the indiscriminate container loads of products imported for sale in the Indian market, can ...