Stephanie Cernivec

Stephanie Cernivec is the managing editor of Beverage Industry magazine, like Dairy Foods, a publication of BNP Media. This article is adapted from the December 2012 Beverage Industry.

Trends in ready-to-drink tea

Increasingly, Americans are slaking their thirst with tea, not bottled water or soft drinks.

Stephanie Cernivec

February 16, 2013

Tea and ready-to-drink (RTD) tea achieved estimated sales of $6.7 billion in 2012, according to Chicago-based market research firm Mintel. And sales are expected to grow to nearly $8 billion by 2014, said Douglas Rash, group vice president of global sales for Treatt, Lakeland, Fla., citing statistics from Rockville, Md.-based Packaged Facts.

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