Peachy's Pantry: Espresso from the new Lifestyle Line by Taylor's of Harrogate Highly Recommended by Whom You Know!
Taylors of Harrogate – purveyors of exceptional teas and coffees since 1886 will kick start your Monday if you are still ready to fall asleep at your desk even though it's past noon! The Espresso is a wonderfully caffeinated delight ready to pump start your Monday, even if you have tried to start it a few times already (with other brands!). Few companies can boast of 125 years of tea blending and coffee roasting. Taylors of Harrogate, based in Yorkshire, England, can. Their range of high quality specialty teas and gourmet coffees offers an enormous amount of choice. Their teas and coffees are hand-selected by in-house experts who tirelessly travel the world to visit tea gardens, estates and coffee plantations. Their enviable task is to find the very best teas and coffees in the world.
In addition to knowing a thing or two about producing premium tea and coffee, they are
a company driven by ethics and doing business in an honorable way. Taylors has a deep corporate social conscience. Trading fairly and protecting the environment are paramount to Taylors. It’s not just marketing buzz words. It’s in their company’s DNA.
Taylors believes in sustainability. They build strong, lasting partnerships with their suppliers. The result is a culture of respect that extends from their growers' farms to customers' homes.
In addition to being exceptionally successful with traditional British blends such as English Breakfast and Earl Grey, Taylors has an innovative range of teas. From rich and malty Assam to rare green teas, the selection of teas opens the door to a whole world of flavors. As well as exotic single origin teas, they offer a wide range of blends, from Scottish Breakfast to caffeine-free tisanes.
The new line of Lifestyle coffees launches Spring 2011. The Lifestyle Range includes seven signature blends which offer something for everyone. These coffees are ground to suit all coffee makers. Different coffees suit different occasions. Each one of these blends takes a unique mix of specially sourced beans, which are slow-roasted and ground straight into 8oz bags to capture the freshest flavor and aroma. The range includes: Decaffé, Espresso, Hot Lava Java, Lazy Sunday, Rich Italian, After Dark and Take It Easy.
Taylors tea can be found in premium retailers across the U.S., such as: Whole Foods, Wegmans, Food Emporium, Central Market, Roundy’s and Fresh Markets. Taylors tea is also found in high-end hotels and restaurants nationwide.
Taylors of Harrogate Company Backgrounder:
· A century and a quarter of blending and roasting excellence.
· Long-standing, close relationships with premium tea gardens and coffee estates.
· A company dedicated to trading fairly and protecting the environment
Tea:
Taylors pays good prices for their premium teas. Rather than accept standard market prices, they place their own value on a tea based on the taste and quality that they are looking for in their blends. This often results in paying higher prices to the smallholder farmers to help them maintain exceptional quality.
In places like India and Africa a typical tea estate supports a large community of people who live and work on the estate with their families. Housing, schools and health care are all provided, as well as subsidized staple foods, and other benefits. Taylors has a strong responsibility to ensure that all these people are treated properly and respectfully. To do this Taylors Ethical Trading Manager and tea buyers work alongside the Ethical Tea Partnership to monitor and improve conditions on the ground.
Each of Taylors Tea Buyers spends over six weeks a year overseas, visiting the estates and working directly with growers looking at conditions of workers on tea estates, including wages and rights, housing, health and safety and the environment. During a typical visit, they would also look at the provision of schooling and health care and visit local hospitals and schools. The very best tea estates and gardens they buy from are recognized with ‘Rewarding Quality’ awards.
Coffee:
• Taylors buys coffee from 49 different suppliers in 20 countries.
• 100% of Taylors coffee suppliers receive a guaranteed fair, sustainable price.
• Tens of thousands of coffee workers have benefited from improvements in living and working conditions, thanks to Taylors social audits.
Simply put, Taylors’ buys coffee based on quality and they trade with respect for both people and planet. Over the years Taylors has developed long-lasting, sustainable relationships with their coffee growers. Taylors’ expert buyers regularly visit the farms and cooperatives they buy from because they believe there's no better way to establish a genuine rapport with suppliers. They pay sustainable prices for all their coffee by guaranteeing to cover costs of production and paying a premium for quality. This provides their suppliers with the stability and means to invest so they can meet independent environmental standards and improve living conditions in their communities. Taylors is proud of the standards they’ve worked hard to establish together.
Taylors coffee buyers collected a prestigious award, recognizing their commitment to fair and ethical trade. The award was presented by HRH, The Prince of Wales, and former United States Vice President, Al Gore. The award was presented to Taylors because of their long-term commitment to building direct, personal relationships with growers; the fair, sustainable prices they pay; and their system of audits, which improve living and working conditions for everyone involved in growing their coffee.
Taylors of Harrogate – A company with a deep social conscience.
Trading fairly
Founding Members of the Ethical Tea Partnership
Taylors is a founding member of the Ethical Tea Partnership, and has been actively involved in developing and promoting ethical codes of practice in the tea industry. The Ethical Tea Partnership aims to improve the lives of tea workers and ensure that tea drinkers can be confident that the tea in their cup has been produced in an environmentally and socially sustainable way.
Trading Fairly
Taylors believes that quality and trading fairly go hand in hand. It’s only by forging strong trading relationships with the growers, and ensuring they are paid premium prices, that Taylors can ensure a continued supply of the best quality teas and coffees.
Taylors has direct, long-term relationships with growers. They pay a fair price that covers the costs of production and gives the farmer a decent return, in spite of fluctuations in world commodity prices. Audits help assess and understand how their fair prices are helping improve living and working conditions on tea and coffee estates.
Buying Tea and Coffee Ethically
Taylors ensures the prices they pay are fair. They have a strong responsibility to ensure that all the people they buy from are treated properly and respectfully.
To do this they have an Ethical Trading Manager and a team of tea and coffee buyers who are all qualified social auditors. When visiting tea and coffee farms they carry out audits to help assess and understand how their prices are helping improve living and working conditions on tea and coffee estates by looking at issues such as wages and rights, health and safety, and the environment. Thanks to Taylors’ buying policy, the farms they work with continue to thrive and produce the excellent quality that they require.
Sustainable Sourcing Program
Close ties with tea and coffee growing communities across Africa, Asia, Central and South America have been the driving force behind the creation of a robust Sustainable Sourcing Program within the company. Taylors builds direct, long-term relationships with growers and always pay an excellent price for quality teas and coffees. Taylors balances their emotional, instinctive, ‘gut feel’ for great quality with realistic, practical measures which help ensure that the tea and coffee is being grown responsibly, and that they buy from well run tea gardens and coffee farms.
Taylors of Harrogate – committed to protecting the environment.
5% Fund
Taylors believes that the success of the business and the rewards it brings are dependent on, and shared with, all stakeholders: staff, customers, suppliers, the environment, and the communities they trade with and in. Thanks to the 5% Fund, they donate 5 per cent of profits to community and environmental initiatives each year.
Trees for Life Appeal
Taylors also supports tea and coffee growing communities through the long-term Trees for Life appeal. Launched twenty years ago, the initial Trees for Life appeal had a goal of planting one million trees. That figure has grown to a staggering three million trees.
Of course there are still more trees to plant, but for now, with an acre of rainforest destroyed every second and half of the world’s rainforest already lost, there’s a new commitment. They’re asking customers and the whole of the Yorkshire community to help save an area of rainforest the size of Yorkshire … welcome to the Yorkshire Rainforest Project.
Yorkshire Rainforest Project
Taylors is a company dedicated to protecting the environment. They began the Yorkshire Rainforest Project, a joint project with the Rainforest Foundation UK, to save 3.7 million acres of rainforest, an area the size of Yorkshire County, England, in Peru’s Amazon rainforest – one of the most threatened rainforests on the planet. It’s a huge undertaking and will take years, perhaps decades.
Rainforest Alliance
Taylors is committed to driving continual progress on the farms they work with and helping producers to achieve good social and environmental practices. This is why they work alongside independent certification initiatives such as the Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Alliance seal of approval is only given to farmers and growers if they meet a long list of social and environmental criteria. These include conserving local wildlife and water resources, minimizing soil erosion, treating workers fairly and protecting forests.
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