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Tazo Tea Company is a tea manufacturer and distributor based in Portland, Oregon, known for their "New age" style marketing and product labeling. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers For example, every box of tea is labeled as "blessed by a certified tea shaman".

Tazo Tea was founded in 1994 by Steve Smith (who retired from Tazo in 2006) along with his business partners Stephen Lee and Tom Mesher. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Lee was the former CEO of the Stash Tea Company which he founded with Smith in 1972. Stash Tea Company is a privately-held Tea company headquartered in Tigard Oregon, a suburb of Portland. Stash was sold in the fall of 1993 to Yamamotoyama, a Japanese tea company.

Smith used his corporate connections within the food services industry to convince many restaurants, food stores, and tea houses to carry the new Tazo Teas. Smith approached Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in 1998 seeking further investment partners. Starbucks Corporation ( is an international Coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle Washington. Howard Schultz (b July 19, 1953) is an American Businessman and Entrepreneur most widely known as the Chairman and Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)

The company was purchased by Starbucks in 1999 for $8. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) 10 Million USD.

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Contents 1 List of tea products 1.1 Black teas 1.2 White Teas 1.3 Green Teas 1.4 Herbal teas 2 External links

List of tea products

Below is a complete list of the tea products produced by Tazo as of March 2008. This list may become obsolete over time.

Black teas

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• Organic Chai Chai
• Earl Grey tea
• Decaffeinated Tazo Chai
• Awake
• Organic Darjeeling

Full Leaf

• Montage
• Chai
• Earl Grey
• Awake

Iced Teas

• Organic Iced Tea
• Tea Lemonade
• Tazoberry
• Mango
• Iced Tea with Lemon

Tea Lattes

• Tazo Chai
• Decaffeinated Tazo Chai
• Organic Tazo Chai
• Tazo Vanilla

T-Disc

• Awake

White Teas

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• Berryblossom White
• Vanilla Apricot White

Green Teas

Filterbag

• China Green Tips
• Organic Om
• Zen
• Envy
• Green Ginger
• Lotus
• Organic Green

Full Leaf

• Zen
• China Green Tips

Iced Teas

• Organic Iced Green Tea
• Giant Peach
• Plum Delicious
• Lemon Green
• Passion Potion

Tea Lattes

• Matcha

Herbal teas

Filterbag

• African Red Bush
• Organic Red Apple
• Calm
• Passion
• Tazo Honeybush
• Lemon Maté
• Wild Sweet Orange
• Sweet Cinnamon Spice
• Refresh

Full Leaf

• Mambo
• Calm

Iced Teas

• Lemon Ginger
• Simply Red
• Bramble Berry
• Wild Orange

Tea Lattes

• Red Tea Latte
• Black Tea Latte

External links

• Tazo Homepage
• Official Online Store - Starbucks' Official Online Store. Earl Grey tea is a Tea blend with a distinctive flavour and aroma derived from the addition of oil extracted from the rind of the Bergamot orange, a fragrant Tassimo is a consumer hot beverage system that prepares one-cup servings of Espresso, regular Coffee, Tea, Hot chocolate, and various other
• Startup Studio -Interview with Steve Smith on the founding of Tazo Tea.

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