A Look At Some Obscure Tea Stocks
Tea is an important thing in my family. Tea at my grandparent's house was a daily occurrence when I was younger, and even now I am known as something of a teetotaler, or rather a "tea-totaler" (not really, but it sounds good). So today, as I sip my morning tea, I thought I would investigate some tea stocks. While tea is not the worldwide staple industry it once was, nonetheless there is still a thriving tea industry in many parts of the world such as India and Asia.
I wouldn't really consider investing in any of these stocks except for the sheer novelty of owning a piece of the world's most perfect beverage, tea. But if I had some extra money to throw around, I might very well enjoy getting some dividends back from all the tea I have consumed over the years! Many of the following stocks trade on foreign exchanges, such as the Bombay Stock Exchange in India, and there is not much information available. Here is a fairly random sample of some foreign tea stocks:
Those are some of the obscure tea stocks that I could find. Most of the familiar tea companies here in America are either subsidiaries of larger corporations (such as Lipton's being a subsidiary of Unilever). So if you are hell-bent on buying some tea stock, you will likely have to start trading on a foreign exchange or buy one of the more mundane domestic stocks such as Peet’s (PEET).
